THE Z FACTOR
IN JUST OVER a century, Carrozzeria Zagato has worked with carmakers from Abarth to Rolls-Royce, Ferrari to Lamborghini, via Aston Martin, Porsche and more. Today, not only is Zagato among very few survivors of its ilk, it is the only coachbuilder still in original family ownership: now the third generation.
‘I don’t know how this happened; maybe we were lucky to predict a transformation in the business,’ says Andrea Zagato, son of Elio and grandson of founder Ugo. ‘We had to change at the end of the 1980s, when car manufacturers were more and more establishing their own internal styling departments and lean production technology made the manufacture of different models possible on the same line. That was the
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