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Origins
The Cizeta-Moroder V16T of 1991 was what happened when Lamborghini's diaspora ignored accounting: Claudio Zampolli gathered ex-Sant'Agata engineers, Giorgio Moroder's disco fortune, and Marcello Gandini's original, uncompromised Diablo design — rejected by Chrysler-era Lamborghini as too extreme — and built it around a transverse 6-litre V16 with sixteen individual throttle bodies and four camshafts, unique in production history. Around 560 horsepower, pop-up lamps stacked in pairs, and a price beyond every rival delivered perhaps a dozen cars before the money dissolved; Moroder departed early, lending the project his name's brief glitter. The V16T survives as the great alternate-universe Lamborghini — Gandini's true Diablo, built by believers, killed by arithmetic, and now worth millions precisely for its beautiful impossibility.
Cizeta-Moroder V16T · Pat Durkin · CC BY-SA 2.0
