2006 Ferrari 575 GTZ by Zagato

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The 2006 Ferrari 575 GTZ by Zagato was not a normal Ferrari production model. It was a coachbuilt special based on the Ferrari 575M Maranello and created by Zagato after a private commission from Japanese collector Yoshiyuki Hayashi. The project was built with Ferrari’s knowledge and became a modern tribute to the 1956 Ferrari 250 GTZ, one of the rarest early Ferrari-Zagato collaborations.

The design was the whole point. Zagato gave the 575 GTZ an all-aluminum body with a double-bubble roof, rounded rear haunches, a short fastback tail, and two-tone paint inspired by the original 250 GTZ. Underneath, it was still a front-engine V12 Ferrari, but visually it looked more hand-built and less corporate than the standard 575M Maranello.

Mechanically, the car used the 575M’s 5.75-liter naturally aspirated V12. Published figures vary because some sources list standard 575M output around 515 hp, while auction and registry-style sources list the GTZ at 540 bhp. The safest way to describe it is as a 575M-based V12 coachbuilt special, usually reported with roughly 515–540 hp depending on source. RM Sotheby’s listed one example with 540 bhp, a 5,748 cc V12, and a six-speed electro-hydraulic F1 transmission.

The 575 GTZ was also genuinely rare. Most references put total production at six examples, built between 2006 and 2009. That makes it far more exclusive than the regular 575M, and closer in spirit to the old coachbuilt Ferraris of the 1950s and 1960s.

The car mattered because it revived a very specific tradition: a private client asking an Italian carrozzeria to reinterpret a Ferrari chassis. By 2006, that kind of coachbuilding had become rare. The 575 GTZ was not about beating the Enzo or chasing lap times. It was about taking a proven V12 grand tourer and giving it a body with history, personality, and a clear link to Ferrari’s coachbuilt past.