BMW Nazca C2

The BMW Nazca C2, also known as the Italdesign Nazca C2, is a concept sports car designed by the Italdesign studio of Giorgetto Giugiaro, with a front end that resembles a BMW. It grew out of the Nazca M12 shown at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1991, itself the first car designed by Giugiaro's son Fabrizio, and the C2 followed in 1992 with the headlamps moved beside the kidney grille, fixed racing seats and three rear spoilers. It has a carbon fibre body and space frame, a glass engine cover over a 5.0 litre V12 taken from the BMW 850i and tuned by Alpina, conventional doors with windows that open in a gull wing arrangement, and a claimed top speed of 311 kilometres an hour. It was meant as an official successor to the mid engined BMW M1, but BMW hesitated to build another such car and did not proceed. Italdesign built five Nazca cars, only three of them with BMW badges, and the other two were made for the Sultan of Brunei. A convertible C2 Spider with a 5.6 litre V12 followed in 1993.