Jiotto Caspita
This super sports car was planned by Jiotto, a company established with funding from clothing manufacturer Wacoal, and developed by racing constructor Dome. It was scheduled for a 1991 launch. It featured a 3.5-liter, horizontally opposed 12-cylinder, 4-cam, 60-valve F1 engine, developed jointly by Fuji Heavy Industries and Italy's Motori Moderni, detuned to 450 horsepower and mounted amidships in a carbon composite frame. Mechanically, it was essentially a Group C racing car, modified for road use. Its production plant was in the UK and it was planned to be sold as an imported car. Fuji Heavy Industries began competing in F1 in 1990 with Coloni, but withdrew from the sport after only eight races, never passing a single pre-qualifying round. This left Caspita without an engine supplier and it replaced the engine with a Judd V10. However, this significantly delayed the project, and with the end of the booming economic times, only two cars were produced in 1993.
Jiotto Caspita was an ambitious super sports car project, eventually disappeared into history after following the short and checkered career. With a financial support from an apparel manufacturer, a company Jiotto was set up, while the racing constructor Dome was assigned the actual development the idea was to mount a F1 engine of 3.5 litre flat 12 co-developed by Subaru/Motori Moderni detuned to 450ps, onto carbon composite frame. Subaru, disappointed by the unsuccessful results by Coloni F1 car mounted with their engine, withdrew from F1, meaning Caspita lost the engine supplier. They chose Judd V10 as an alternative power source, however, as the time of upswing economy was coming to an end, the project could not keep on going just two examples of Jiotto Caspita was assembled in the year of 1993.
