TURIN, Italy — Ercole Spada, who gave us the Alfa Romeo TZ1 in 1965 and a couple of classic Zagato-bodied Aston Martins, is back with a vengeance. Having failed to resurrect Osca, he's now offering a quirky-looking sports car bearing his own name.
The first details and photos of the Codatronca were released earlier in the year, but the car has now been presented in full detail at the Spadaconcept Web site.
Based on the latest Chevrolet Corvette, the Codatronca measures 187.4 inches long, 77.1 inches wide, and 47.2 inches tall. Its 7.0-liter V8 engine will come in three different states of tune. There's the 600-horsepower TS and the still road-legal TSV with 700 hp courtesy of two superchargers. There's also a yet-to-be-completed racing version, called TSS (Turismo Super Sportivo). The "base" TS weighs 3,086 pounds, courtesy of its aluminum space-frame construction; the TSV weighs 44 pounds less. Performance figures are also impressive: Even the basic TS is capable of 205 mph, while the TSV can reach 220 mph and goes from zero to 62 mph in 2.7 seconds.
There's still no word on pricing.
What this means to you: It's performance, performance, performance, much more than looks, with this one.
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