Not The Usual Sultan Car...

[166 MM Barchetta]

It’s been a while since I’ve seen one of these appear on the market. It says it’s sold but I think it may be consigned to an auction.
I always thought the Sultan of Brunei cars went to him, seems this one was left at a dealer so I guess it’s condition will be better than those left in warehouses.
Nice bit of RHD rarity.
Nice stock at this dealer too.

https://wearecurated.com/1993-cizeta-v16t/

[cgt2]

There are several videos on his Youtube channel including one the other day where he discusses the car with Claudio Zampolli.

Seems Claudio was in a good mood as usually he is wildly berating Balboni, Leno and anyone else he can think of. Nice to hear about his engineering vision and how it all came together, whatever his personal issues with those guys he used to be friends with he is a fantastic engineer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWgZ8qM7UqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiKZCUYpwWQ

[Ferruccio]

That’d be a fun thing to have. If it worked.........

[thatdude]

Double pop-up headlights!

:Look a bit silly to me, but sort of cool in that 80's / early 90's eccentric way

[bunchofkeys]

"It had a 37 gallon (12 liter) fuel tank"

I know it's a typo, but imagine if it did have a 12 litre tank. As soon as you started that beast of an engine, and move the car around on the drive way, you'd need to fill it again.

[yellowtr]

The guy who bought it has a proper eclectic car collection and he also owns my old Testarossa. I hope to meet him in the near future when travel permits as he said to come and see it.

[thatdude]

bunchofkeys said:

"It had a 37 gallon (12 liter) fuel tank"

I know it's a typo, but imagine if it did have a 12 litre tank. As soon as you started that beast of an engine, and move the car around on the drive way, you'd need to fill it again.

Niche market for auxiliary fuel tanks

[WCZ]

bunchofkeys said:

"It had a 37 gallon (12 liter) fuel tank"

I know it's a typo, but imagine if it did have a 12 litre tank. As soon as you started that beast of an engine, and move the car around on the drive way, you'd need to fill it again.

37 gallons is over 100 liters isnt it?

[Pommy]

WCZ said:

bunchofkeys said:

"It had a 37 gallon (12 liter) fuel tank"

I know it's a typo, but imagine if it did have a 12 litre tank. As soon as you started that beast of an engine, and move the car around on the drive way, you'd need to fill it again.

37 gallons is over 100 liters isnt it?

US 3.785L per Gallon so about 142 litres.

[SSO]

It was sold at the RM Sotheby's Arizona auction. Went for $600k. It was one of the cars I included in the recent article on the Supercar Market.

[zondaboy]

The coolest car you've never heard of. They really went all out with the design and build on this one. Interesting backstory with Zampolli's history with Lamborghini, the illustrious designer Gandini sketching the car and legendary electro record producer Giorgio Moroder putting up the money for the project, with the extravagant Sultan ending up buying two V16Ts. It was made for someone like the Sultan and was destined for his collection.

A precursor to the Diablo, the V16T captures the essence (and excess) of that era but became a victim of the recession-ravaged early 90s. Commercially, it suffered a worse fate than the EB110 and XJ220 but like those two it's now being appreciated and valued highly. $600K at auction is quite remarkable, especially with where the world is today. I hope to see a Cizeta in the flesh one day.

A similar supercar from that time was the Vector W8.

[yellowtr]

zondaboy said:

The coolest car you've never heard of. They really went all out with the design and build on this one. Interesting backstory with Zampolli's history with Lamborghini, the illustrious designer Gandini sketching the car and legendary electro record producer Giorgio Moroder putting up the money for the project, with the extravagant Sultan ending up buying two V16Ts. It was made for someone like the Sultan and was destined for his collection.

A precursor to the Diablo, the V16T captures the essence (and excess) of that era but became a victim of the recession-ravaged early 90s. Commercially, it suffered a worse fate than the EB110 and XJ220 but like those two it's now being appreciated and valued highly. $600K at auction is quite remarkable, especially with where the world is today. I hope to see a Cizeta in the flesh one day.

A similar supercar from that time was the Vector W8.

The new owner has one of those as well!

[SSO]

zondaboy said:

The coolest car you've never heard of. They really went all out with the design and build on this one. Interesting backstory with Zampolli's history with Lamborghini, the illustrious designer Gandini sketching the car and legendary electro record producer Giorgio Moroder putting up the money for the project, with the extravagant Sultan ending up buying two V16Ts. It was made for someone like the Sultan and was destined for his collection.

A precursor to the Diablo, the V16T captures the essence (and excess) of that era but became a victim of the recession-ravaged early 90s. Commercially, it suffered a worse fate than the EB110 and XJ220 but like those two it's now being appreciated and valued highly. $600K at auction is quite remarkable, especially with where the world is today. I hope to see a Cizeta in the flesh one day.

A similar supercar from that time was the Vector W8.

It was actually the Sultan's brother, Prince Jefri who bought the cars. I think he actually bought 3 Cizeta but had 2 of them modified by Pininfarina with Ferrari engines.

[zondaboy]

The founder and creator of Vector vehicles, Gerald Wiegert, passed away a couple of weeks ago. Another colourful and intriguing tale like Cizeta. Very Delorean-esque. Would make for a great Hollywood biopic.

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/vector-supercars-...

[zondaboy]

Another futuristic phoenix from the early 90s economic fallout up for grabs. Wouldn't look out of place next to the Cizeta and Vector.

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/retro/you-can-now...