Zagato

Zagato is an Italian coachbuilding and design house founded in Milan in 1919 by Ugo Zagato, who left the Pomilio aircraft works to apply lightweight aeronautical construction, with aluminium sheet bodies on a light frame, to cars. For most of its history the name appeared on bodies fitted to chassis made by other firms, notably Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Fiat, Maserati and Aston Martin, and its lightweight and aerodynamic bodies won races such as the Mille Miglia and the Targa Florio. Under Ugo Zagato and later his son Elio, the firm moved from hand-built bodies to small series, and the company has long had its design centre at Terrazzano, near Rho in Lombardy. In the 1990s it widened into transport design for railways and industrial vehicles and into concept cars, and from the 2010s it has returned to building cars under its own name. This make entry covers the vehicles Zagato itself presents as its own models; the many cars it bodied for other marques belong to those marques.