2008 – Giugiaro Quaranta

This full-scale styling model represents a contemporary reinterpretation of the Bizzarrini Manta, revisiting its distinctive one-volume architecture through the language of an electric super sports car.

The design develops a continuous profile from the short nose, through the steeply inclined windscreen, to the sharply defined tail, preserving the formal clarity that made the original Manta so radical.

Access to the cabin is conceived through a large upper section incorporating the side doors, opening upwards and reinforcing the sense of the car as a single sculpted volume.

The project was developed around a carbon-fiber monocoque and conceived in collaboration with Toyota, using the Hybrid Synergy Drive system as the basis for its advanced electric and hybrid architecture.

As a styling model, it preserves the formal research behind a project that connects one of Giugiaro’s most important historical experiments with a new vision of high-performance mobility.