Ferrari 550 GTZ: Zagato and Ferrari's Swansong Collaboration Revealed

yes yes yes..now thats a beautiful ferrari.. thats the reason why im always saying the should switch their design bureau and go to zagato! though i like the gt version much more.

no no no... now that's an ugly ferrari.. it seems that they are being very hit an miss with their designs lately.

looks like a 612 Scaglietti mixed with a Mercedes Benz SLS retro theme....I think its kinda boring

BMW Z8 looks better than this

I would get the 550 Barchetta over this any day.. Special, and limited edition or not, this is just pure ugly and cheap.

Like i said, i don't like alot of Ferrari's but this classic beast is gorgeous. I love these cars that have old styling with new technology, can't make a better marriage, not considering aerodynamics of course. Lamborghini, you just don't get this car...im not a Ferrari fan by any stretch of the imagination, but this is ugly? come on now.

As you can guess I'm not a Ferrari fan either, but I did like their older cars, like the 575, F355, Testarossa, F40 etc. And I believe that I do get this car, and I must say that I hate the way it tries to mimic the 250 GTO, which is one of the most beautiful cars ever built in my opinion.

Arghh, not a good looking one.

Plain old fugly

Zagato sucks.

If someone has told me this was a rebodied '89 Corvette I would have believed them. Just looking at these photos makes me want to run out and buy a big-ass gold chain to show off my just-sprouted-as-I-typed-this-message chest hair. Might we be able to find a sleazy lookin' cocktail waitress to pose next to it? Or a g-stringed postergirl for the silicone industry?

looks like a deformed down syndrome Z8

I see an Alfa 8C, a BMW Z8, a Mercedes SLR Stirling Moss. Get an overdose of it and this is the result, pure trash.....Of course this is 007 Next car, see the rocket lunchers????? ;)

looks like a porsche boxter on the articles profile picture... its got a little of the 550 spyder as well from the side

The real interesting thing in this article is: "New company rules dictate that all post-production tuning will now be done in-house." It will be interesting to see what this entails and how they enforce it.

Looks like a BMW Z8 combined with a boat. Don't like it. The 575 Zagato was nice, and this is just... what's the point? 550 is old now, it's a bit like an Aston DB7 Zagato which used a modified 1975 Jaguar XJS platform still in 2004...

It makes me sad to read most commentions here. This thing is a strong piece of designwork. I can't imagine anyone of the people below have an imagine how to create shapes for a car. They have no ideas to bring interesting details in a whole well proportioned design. For sure there are similar aspects to other fabrications everytime you design a car. You cannot reinvent The car completely new. And if you try, everyone say again, that it's ugly and it remains to nothing that anyone knows. I dislike all the haters on boards like this. All the automobile-news-consumers, that have no respect and no idea for niceful conversations. All the couch potatoes criticies cars they can never buy or drive in completely irrelevant facts and subjective aspects like design. All the "specialists" that are extremely curosily and prejudiced about brands and designers. Guys, just come of age if you are interested to get seriously. You are simply poor. Like I said: It's sad, 'cause none will win after your deconstruction.

It is always interesting how unique and instantly recognisable Zagato design language is, irrespective of their project collaborations; Aston Martin or Ferrari. The signs are in the carnographic curves of the front and rear wing treatments, followed by period headlight and rear light cluster designs. The interior leather is a trademark blood-red finish. Unless your soul is dead, you'll never understand, let alone appreciate, Zagato design. If Fisker can churn out remodelled BMWs with fancy grilles, why can't Zagato go it alone?

I can also see strong BMW Z8 design cues here; great compliment not an accusation for design plagiarism!