Celebration of 100 years of Italian sports car design

This weekend at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este near Lake Como, the famous coachbuilder Zagato will show off its latest creation.

The car is called the “Mostro powered by Maserati,” and it celebrates both the 100-year anniversary of Maserati and a famous racing car called the 450 S Coupe Zagato Monster. Zagato will make only five of them.

The partnership between Ugo Zagato, who founded the company in 1919, and the Maserati brothers originated in the 1930s with the Tipo 26M Sport. They began working together in order to make Maseratis sportier, more lightweight, and more aerodynamic.