His company was soon contracted by Alfa Romeo and a special relationship with Vittorio Jano enabled Zagato to body the legendary Alfa Romeo 6C1500 and then 6C1750 racers. This collaboration continued, and until the mid 1930's most of Zagato's work was with Alfa Romeo. They then spread their wings and began also working more with Fiat, Lancia and others. During the war the facilities were destroyed and following the cessation of hostilities a new factory was built north of Milan. The expansion continued with the victory of the 1951 Grand Prix World Championship by the Zagato bodied Alfa Romeo 159.

The 1950s saw Ugo's two sons, Gianni and Elio, entering into the business, leading to their takeover of the management on their fathers death in 1968. A new factory was built and the company continued to expand in two directions with Zagato Car srl (the production of cars) and Zagato Design srl (which diversified into various areas of industrial and product design). Various forays were made into the world of both armoured and electric vehicles.

Production of both concept cars and limited volume production runs continued into the 1980s, most famously the Alfa Romeo SZ and the RZ cars as well as the Lancia Hyena, the last production Zagato. The economic problems of the early 1990s hit Zagato hard. Already renamed SZ Design, in 1994 they changed to Zagato Centrostile and changed their workload away from production to design plus model building.
 

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