Bizzarrini is Back with 5300 Aperta LussoBizzarriniBizzarrini has been back before. The small-volume-big-dreams car maker produced the 5300 GT Corsa a few years ago, selling at least 24 of them in Europe as of 2023. Now The Bizz is back with a new design, the dream, it says, of both founder Giotto Bizzarrini and designer Giurgietto Giugiaro—the targa-topped 5300 Aperta Lusso."For over 60 years a design concept by Giorgetto Giugiaro has remained unrealized, showcasing an open-top interpretation of one of the most beautiful cars ever built: the Bizzarrini 5300 GT," the company says.It's a 5300 GT Corsa with a removable targa top.Bizzarrini"Giotto Bizzarrini and Giorgetto Giugiaro—both legends of the automotive world—had together envisaged an innovative approach to open-top driving; a removable roof panel and a beautiful structural arch, lighter and more elegant than a folding hood. This visionary design lived only in an archive, until today when Giorgetto and Giotto's open-top dream comes to life as the Bizzarrini 5300 Aperta Lusso. The first all new production Bizzarrini since the '60s, this Nuova Classica combines modern technology and luxury with '60s design language and elegance."BizzarriniLike the great Bizzarrinis of yore, this one is powered by a 5.3-liter front-mid-mounted V8, the same proven small block unit Giotto Bizzarrini selected in the 1960s, positioned entirely behind the front axle centerline for ideal weight distribution. It produces "well over" 400 hp, drives a Tremec TKX five-speed manual and limited-slip differential, and will carry the Aperta Lusso to more than 175 mph.AdvertisementAdvertisementPort fuel injection replaces the famous Weber 40DCOEs of the GT Corsa Revival, in favor of modern day-to-day usability, though the system has been carefully designed to look, to the eye, as though carburetors are fitted.The car is built around a single-piece carbon-fiber composite body, one of the largest of its type in the world, Bizzarrini says, and a distinctly different engineering proposition to the carbon tubs in which subframes are simply bolted. Bizzarrini's semi-monocoque bonded chassis approach yields a body that is simultaneously structure and sculpture. That allows them to remove the targa roof without compromising the car's structural integrity.Want to buy one? Production is limited to 10 initial examples, each one a personal commission built to the owner's exact specification. Further commissioning slots will be available with cars arriving in 2027.