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THE EXCALIBUR
SPIDER ITALDESIGN
EDITION
FORCEFULLY
EXPRESSES
THE BRAND’S
UNWAVERING
FOCUS ON
‘DISRUPTIVE
MATERIALS AND
PROGRESSIVE
COMPLICATIONS’.

Intended for collectors and visionary enthusiasts, it are distinctly softer and smoother in keeping with the
combines racing car features and performance along- Italian Gran Turismo tradition. The lower part is model-
side type-approval for use on normal roads. Developed led from aerodynamics. To achieve the performances
around a modular chassis in carbon fibre and alumi- we had in mind, we had to dare beyond all limits from
nium, this special car boasts a powerful naturally aspi- styling and even purely technical points of view. The
rated 5.2 litre V10 engine which enables 0-100 km/h outcome ensures extremely high impact without ever
acceleration in just 3.2 seconds, together with a top being design for design’s sake”. Right from the first style
speed in excess of 330 km/h. The bodywork is entirely draft, the Styling Centre and the Engineering Depart-
in carbon fibre. The car measures 4847 millimetres in ment implemented what is defined as simultaneous
length by 1970 millimetres in width by 1204 millime- engineering, a work method developed and perfected
tres in height. “The exterior is characterised by the two by Italdesign way back at the end of the 1960s and
sides of the same medal,” said Filippo Perini, Head of constantly improved over the company’s fifty-year hi-
Innovation Design: “above the tornado line, outlines story.

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