Beauty & The Beast: Zagato

It’s Monday so you know what that means Car Throttlers. Yep, it’s time for the eagerly anticipated third instalment of Beauty & The Beast. This week, we’ll be putting Zagato under the microscope.

In case you’d forgotten, Beauty & The Beast celebrates Italian design houses and the contribution they’ve made to automotive design as a whole by looking at some of their most beautiful creations. But that’s not all. No designer can boast a complete range of flawless designs, so we’ll also be checking out the ugly duckings.

Last week the Daewoo Matiz and Ssangyong Rexton were named (somewhat controversially) as Giugiaro’s beasts. Scroll down to find out which monstrosities have taken this week’s honours, and remember to let us know what you think in the comments, or on Twitter or Facebook.

Before we dive in, a quick reminder of the rules: one-offs and concept cars aren’t eligible, and for once, a car’s dynamic ability doesn’t matter. For the purposes of Beauty & The Beast, we’re only going skin deep...

Beauty: Aston Martin V12 Zagato

Aston have announced they’ll build 150 of these hand-crafted beauties at £330k (plus local taxes) a pop. Hence, it qualifies for a spot on our list. I think I need to be alone for a while...

Beauty: Alfa Romeo TZ3 Stradale

Before we're summarily berated for breaking our own rules and giving a concept car a Car Throttle nod, let us just say this - we said one-offs weren’t eligible. Not nine-offs. Yep, they’ve built nine of these things to toast Alfa’s 100^th. The world is a better place for it...

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Beast: Chrysler Ypsilon

The parrot-faced Ypsilon is based on the Fiat 500. We know which we’d prefer...

Beast: Zagato Zele

We suspect it took Zagato all of an hour to design the Zele; a fibreglass electric box that bore a striking resemblance to a portable lavatory.