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    Quote Originally Posted by NicFromLA View Post
    However, I really hope this becomes a series production car. I know Bertone is in trouble and I'd hate to see the same fate befall Zagato and this could really help them out.
    Limited production I guess you mean...

    I quite like it, especially the concept. But some details just don't fit. In my opinion the best view, the profile.

    And talking about trademarks, at this pace the rear is going to become a Zagato trademark too...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    Limited production I guess you mean...

    I quite like it, especially the concept. But some details just don't fit. In my opinion the best view, the profile.

    And talking about trademarks, at this pace the rear is going to become a Zagato trademark too...
    This reflects my thoughts exactly. Tone down the grill a bit and it would be great.

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    It seems contrived — obsequious and trite; a pedantic exercise, though certainly not pedestrian.

    Ferrer is right about the rear being a Zagato trademark, but do we need trademarks in the neo-coachbuilding industry? I find this styling exercise to be predictable. It apes numerous other recent Zagato designs without finding, to these eyes, which looked at it for all of ten seconds or so, its own flavor.

    And the double-bubble roof (and faux-boattail) design is supposed to be incorporated into an overarching "shrink-wrapped" bodywork look. Given that the starting point was such a thick-cut slab of British rolling beef, the double bubble looses its charm.

    I'd drive it. If you put a bag over its head.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LandQuail View Post
    I'd drive it. If you put a bag over its head.
    this car isn't about driving but style. if you simply want to drive it, take the standard Bentley GT, which is way more banal...
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    hideous.
    well, they had a bentley to start with i guess, so it's not unexpected, given zagato's style..
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    Quote Originally Posted by clutch-monkey View Post
    hideous.
    well, they had a bentley to start with i guess, so it's not unexpected, given zagato's style..
    at the beginning, i didn't like zagato's style. now i cannot say that all its creations are fabulous, but they have their own style, which is a good quality in this days where all automakers are copying each others. you could say that zagato is copying itself, and then i could argue with the "family feeling" and so on...
    the last year's Diatto Ottovu i though it was simply rubbish for example. by the time i began to appreciate it, because it is proportioned, not excessive, it's a manifest of your exclusivity (a good reason is simply because no one knows what it is...) but without screaming "i'm richer and cooler than you" at the fellows around you at a light cross.
    this GTZ for sure is more showy and lacks of this understatement, but it's more personal than the standard GT, which is a really good looking car, but know one is going to say it is ugly because it is banal, so it is nearly obvious that you like it. btw, i like it too, i have to admit it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeonOfTheDead View Post
    this GTZ for sure is more showy and lacks of this understatement, but it's more personal than the standard GT, which is a really good looking car, but know one is going to say it is ugly because it is banal, so it is nearly obvious that you like it. btw, i like it too, i have to admit it.
    i don't like the conti GT. zagato doesn't really add anything to it and the added styling doesn't really help the conti GT's case except, as you say, to personalise it.
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    Like everyone i eagerly anticipated the zagato bentley but was some what disapointed, o.k. i didnt expect it to have wings but something more original would have been nice too see,The rear especially looks to similar to the rear of the ferrari 575 gtz, diatto ottovu zagato and maserati gs zagato. just my poinion

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    The grille is big,like Audi,it's more aggressive.

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