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SLASH & BURN

Even if you could draw a rear end as complicated as the one on the Zerouno, it would surely be impossible to manufacture. But Italdesign, 50 years old in 2018 with a back catalogue that makes it the Beatles of car design, has managed to do both. It’s not quite a Möbius strip, folding in on itself in a mathematically unorientable way, but it’s fantastically over-the-top.

It really works, too. The road we’ve headed along takes us up above the clouds towards Moncenisio, about 100 kilometres west of Turin on the border with France. It would be difficult to put a figure on this prototype Zerouno, but pretty soon its value and extraordinary rarity cease to bother me; this is an easy car to drive quickly, and there’s hardly anyone around, so we

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