A startup company based in Modena, Italy, came out of the woodwork this week with a teaser video promising something new on May 22, 2025.
The company is called Giamaro, and its video doesn’t show anything car related apart from confirming a quad-turbocharged V-12. It also states that a “formidable power is coming,” likely referring to the engine’s output.
Given the company’s base in Modena, often nicknamed Italy’s supercar valley, due to the proximity of Italian performance houses such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, and Pagani, it’s safe to assume Giamaro’s engine will end up in a supercar of some sorts, though as Ferrari has shown with the Purosangue, a V-12 is just as at home in an SUV as it is in a supercar.
There aren’t many models with V-12 engines left, let alone ones with quad-turbocharging systems. However, Giamaro won’t be the only company with a modern quad-turbocharged W-12. Danish hypercar marque Zenvo last year unveiled the Aurora powered by a quad-turbocharged 6.6-liter able to deliver 1,250 hp on its own. However, in the Aurora, the engine is paired with a hybrid system taking output to 1,450 hp in a track-focused Agil version and 1,850 hp in a Tur grand-touring version.
Giamaro also won’t be the first company out of Modena to offer a quad-turbocharged V-12. Before it was bought by the Volkswagen Group in the late 1990s, Bugatti was based in Modena and was building the EB110 powered by quad-turbocharged 3.5-liter V-12. The EB110 engine delivered 592 hp in its most powerful form, and was replaced by the famous quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W-16 engine in the EB110’s Veyron successor.