CAPRICORN

Capricorn 01 Zagato Tutto Rosso

Capricorn used the Salon Rétromobile in Paris earlier this year to showcase its 01 Zagato hypercar in a striking Giallo Sole color, while last weekend at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, the model was shown in a unique red Tutto Rosso (it. “all red”).

As much as 95 percent of this supercar is covered in red: the bodywork, matching red wheels, body accents, carbon fiber details, side mirrors, centrally mounted windshield wiper, interior with red leather seats, red accents on the dashboard, red carbon fiber center console, red gear knob, red steering wheel...

With a bodywork designed by Zagato 1919, the Capricorn 01 Zagato is a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive hypercar, engineered and hand-built by Capricorn in Germany to deliver a pure, immersive, analog driving experience.

The Capricorn 01 Zagato prioritizes "lightweight technology and driving purity" over excessive horsepower.

Now, Capricorn is showing off at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este with a gorgeous one-of-one, uh, 01, that looks absolutely mega if you’re into the monotone look. It’s dubbed the 'Tutto Rosso' special—which in Italian translates loosely to "all red." You can probably guess why.

A whopping 95 percent of this supercar is covered in red. That’s right, 95 percent. The exterior is draped in the hue, first and foremost, joined by matching red wheels, body accents, carbon fiber details, side mirrors—and yes, even the single, central-mounted windshield wiper is red.

That red extends to the interior, with red leather on the seats, red accents on the dash, a red carbon fiber center console, a red shift knob, and of course, a red steering wheel. Even the engine bay is covered in a red carbon fiber weave.

What isn’t red? Great question. On the outside, the Capricorn logos on the front and rear of the car are spared the all-red getup. Inside, the aluminum housing on the gated shifter stays natural, as do the seat belt buckles. Other than that—not much else escapes red paint.

Milan design house Zagato's never done a hypercar (granted, a fairly new term), but it's on its way to penning its first production hypercar—if you can call a 19-car run "production". The Capricorn 01 Zagato Tutto Rosso doesn't count toward that 19-car total because it's still deemed a prototype, but it looks pretty well finished to us. And if you can afford it, you can probably also afford to get it street-legal, somehow.

This hypercar prototype already has an unnamed owner who commissioned it, with the car set to make its debut this weekend at the prestigious Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este car show on Italy's Lake Como. The 01 Zagato is in the spirit of purist hypercars like the Gordon Murray T.50 and Koenigsegg Jesko, with a 9000-rpm supercharged 5.2-liter Ford V-8 good for "more than" 900 horsepower and a manual transmission. That transmission is a dogleg five-speed, but when you've only got a claimed 2647 pounds of dry weight against 900 hp, maybe you can spare a ratio or two. As you might expect, there's a lot of carbon fiber—the tub, body, and much of the interior are carbon.

And in the case of the Tutto Rosso–"all red" in Italian—that carbon fiber was tinted red. The company says that 95 percent of the car's visible surfaces are red. If you think you have a favorite color, safe to say you don't like it as much as this 01 Zagato owner likes red.

The Capricorn 01 Zagato's base price is $3,344,000 at the current exchange rate, and if that's too rich for your blood, don't worry about it—the 01 Zagato is homologated for the EU, but not the U.S. market. There are ways around that (like the Show and Display route), but maybe you can just keep it at your pied-à-terre in Monaco.

Ford's 5.2-liter supercharged V8 engine produces 662 kW/900 hp and 1,000 Nm of torque here, and is mated to a manual transmission.

With an LMP1-grade carbon fiber structure and carbon fiber bodywork, the Capricorn 01 Zagato weighs less than 1,200 kg, providing an excellent power-to-weight ratio, exceptional agility, a 0-100 km/h acceleration time of less than 3.0 seconds and a top speed of 360 km/h.

Production of the Capricorn 01 Zagato will be strictly limited to a series of just 19 coupes (priced at €2.95 million per unit), as a tribute to the year Zagato was founded - 1919. This number is of particular significance to the design house and serves as a tribute to its history of creating highly sought-after, ultra-limited, collector's cars.

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