Spada Codatronca Monza preview

Ercole Spada - an Italian car designer - probably is not as famous as his colleagues, but his creations among which are Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Coda Tronca, Giulia TZ and Giulia TZ2, Lancia Fulvia Zagato Sport and Aston Martin DB4 speak for itselves.

In 2007, together with his son Paolo and Wojtek Sokolowski Mr. Spada launched a car under his own name. Named Codatronca the car was built by Spadaconcept in conjunction with the Italian company UK Garage. The car whose extraordinary design cannot be mistaken with anything else is based on Corvette Z06 chassis. Initially, three versions of the car were announced: TS “Sport Tourism” with 512hp engine, TSV “Fast Sport Tourism” with 513hp power unit and the TSS “Sport Super Tourism”. The latter should have been equipped with a 700hp and 950Nm engine. However, on March of 2008, just before the world premiere at the Top Marques Monaco 2008, Spadaconcept announced an establishment of a dedicated company SpadaVettureSport for a production of the Codatronca TS as the car was finally christended. 

Ercole Spada's creation since then is available with an aluminium V8 engine developing 630 hp at 6500 rpm and 668 Nm at 4800 rpm which can also work with BioFuel E85. Equipped with such a powerful engine, the SVS Codatrinca TS is capable of 340 km/h top speed and hits the hundred in 3.4 seconds.
In order to make the car as exclusive as possible and the project commercially succesful the company intends to build no more than 20 examples of the Codatronca TS. The price for each example begins at 300,000 euro.

However, the forthcoming supercar show in Monaco this year will be a place for the world premiere of the brand new model comming from the Turin-based SpadaVettureSport. An open speedster version - the Codatronca Monza - will be unveiled here. A new lighter and faster model will be a track-oriented car.

text: allcarindex