Pegaso Z-102

The Pegaso Z-102 was a Spanish sports car built by Pegaso in coupe and cabriolet form from 1951 until 1958. Pegaso was better known for trucks and motor coaches, and its chief technical manager Wifredo Ricart, formerly chief engineer at Alfa Romeo, supplied the original design. The first two prototypes of 1951 had steel bodies that proved too heavy, so production cars moved to lighter alloy bodies, many of them finished by outside coachbuilders such as Touring and Saoutchik. The car was among the fastest in the world when it was built, reaching 151 miles per hour, but it was built regardless of cost and so proved too expensive to continue, and racing success was almost nonexistent. The article gives a total of 84 cars, with some sources saying only 71, of which 28 were cabriolets. A cheaper Z-103 followed.