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The Zagato Perana Z-One is a prototype car coupé presented in 2009 at the Geneva Motor Show by the Zagato body shop on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of its foundation.

The context

Perana Z-One
The press records spread by the Milanese company and the South African company Perana Performance Group were resumed by the automotive blogs, as well as by the various magazines in the sector and declared the intention to produce a thousand annual specimens of the Perana Z-One, a Gran Turismo with a lower selling price.

The car presented some of Zagato's unmistakable styles, such as air vents with a very sharp design and placed on the sides of the front bumper as well as along the sides of the flanks and the bonnet, or as the double hump on the pavilion. The front headlights presented a thin and sharp design, the engine compartment was very elongated, the cockpit was backwards close to the rear and therefore a very short and collected tail. The design of the headlights and the housings of the exhaust terminals were characterized by a design "eye", to whose cut also contributed the contour of the tail itself, bounded by an oval edge with a crushing at the bottom.

Regarding the mechanics, the engine presented was resumed by the base Corvette C6 of 2008: it was the V8 of 6.2 liters LS3 "small-block" able to deliver up to 440 CV to 5900 rpm and a maximum torque of 583 Nm to 4600 rpm. The change had also been resumed by the American car. The frame was tubular, with the use of light materials to contain the weight but at the same time to guarantee a high torque rigidity, with a distribution of the masses in the scheme 50/50. The suspensions were deformable quadrilaterals. The declared performance was for a maximum speed of 300 km/h, taking from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 4 seconds.

According to the news, even later, the production should have started in the months immediately after, then moved to the end of 2010 and with an expected price increased more than 50%, but following the production project Perana lost track.

AC 378 GT

At the beginning of 2012 the prototype was presented to the public at the Geneva show, this time using a British historical brand, the AC Cars, with the name of AC 378 GT. The news spread talked about immediate marketing in Germany and Great Britain with a further price rising to and with the technical data unchanged compared to the Perana brand model.
The presentation also took place at the Goodwood Festival of Speed as part of the promotion of the activity of a new Cypriot company that had the intention to re-enter the historic brand AC Cars of which it held the rights; the production of the car was always planned in South Africa as previously.

As in the previous case, after the first office statements