Which was the first car every to be fitted with a 16 cylinder engine? Bugatti Veyron? Nah! Nah! You be wrong. It was Cizeta Moroder V16T. Cizeta company which had only few employees mostly from lamborghini designed this masterpiece in 1991. Cizeta Moroder V16T was sold for $ 300,000 in 1991 and it kept on selling till 1995 when the company went bust.
The Sultan of Brunei owns 2 of them and total 8 are thought to be existing in the world. Wondering thing is that this car is still on sale today, oh yes! Cizeta will still make you one on demand for only $ 649,000.
This car in 1991 had the capability to cross 200m/h barrier and it had a top speed of 204m/h. This behemoth could do 0-60 in less than 4 seconds. This masterpiece was designed by Marcello Gandini who later on went to Lamborghini to design the mighty lambo diablo. This car could have done a lot of business but people at that time went for more established companies like Lamborghini or Ferrari.
Another "what could have been". A pity the beautiful engine and transmission unit didn't find another home. What happens to all the tooling once a project like this goes turtle?
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