Italdesign Zerouno

Intended for Collectors and Visionary Enthusiasts, Italdesign Automobili Speciali Zerouno Combines Racing Car Features and Performance

“Lightweight”. This was the starting concept that designers and engineers implemented for the ZEROUNO project. Right from the first styling draft, the Styling Centre and the Engineering Development Department implemented what is defined as simultaneous engineering, a work method developed and perfected by Italdesign way back at the end of the 1960s and constantly improved over the company’s almost fifty-year history.

Designers and engineers work simultaneously to carry forward styling solutions and functional feasibility checks until an ideal compromise is achieved that meets design and performance requirements alike. Functional design has always distinguished projects set in motion and developed in Moncalieri: there are no styling proposals at Italdesign that do not also simultaneously embrace a technical solution.

“The development of the ZEROUNO was based on the know-how achieved in the designing of hundreds of cars in our 49-years history” Antonio Casu, Chief Technical Officer, said. “To reach the timing target we applied the latest CAx and Simulation Technologies. Styling has been integrated since the very beginning with early engineering and production processes. All this allowed us to produce a state-of-the-art car in terms of performance and safety.”

Limiting the final weight of the car as far as possible in order to ensure exceptional performances by equally emphasising the carbon fibre and aluminium chassis and the powerful V10 5.2 naturally aspired engine was the objective defined right from the start of this project.

This is why the entire bodywork is in carbon fibre. The same material is also generously used inside the cockpit; the state of the art in fibre layering technology, together with the skills of craftsmen during the finishing stages, combined to achieve a light weight despite the car measuring 4847 mm in length and 1970 mm in width by 1204 mm in height.