A decade later, Pagani Zondas remain near the top of the exotic sports car list. They've been tested fast in a straight line, reaching 0–60 mph in the mid-3-second range and proved able to get around the Nürburgring in a video game-quick 7:27.82.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
Every Zonda functions another exceptionally prized quality among exceptional motors: rarity, with fewer than one hundred in life.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
While missing the traditional, flowing splendor of a Pininfarina-designed Ferrari, the Zonda's shape is an attention-getter. It stops you for your tracks. We failed to suppose the design might age properly, but a decade down the line it still rivets attention and holds it ? From that low nostril with its 4 small headlamps back to the large middle exhaust port corralling four outlets. A photographer's dream.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
The attractive indoors is a combination of cutting-edge (carbon fiber), unfashionable (toggle switches) and art deco (the layout of instruments and controls) accented with aluminum and first-rate leather.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
That Zonda body style is done as a sports coupe or a roadster in three levels, all with a mid-mounted 7.3-liter AMG/Mercedes-Benz V-12. The S version comes in at 555 bhp and 553 lb.-ft. of torque, the F with 602 bhp and 561 lb.-ft., and the F Club sport dynos at 650 bhp and 575 lb.-ft.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
All use 6-velocity manual transmissions, Brembo disc brakes and have the kind of A-arm suspensions you would anticipate in a race automobile. Plus the extent of suspension and aerodynamic tuning that permits 210-plus-mph pinnacle speeds.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
Being in a Zonda at speed is a pure exotic-car moment. Like a Ferrari Enzo, there are nicely crafted touches from the museum-quality carbon-fiber finish to air conditioning that keep this from being a race car on the streets. Still, you are not cushioned or coddled or kept from enjoying the unfiltered fun of a truly fast machine. One with a price that likely will soak up $500,000 or more.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
Sadly, the Zonda is nearing the give up of its run. But don't mourn the supercar too much as the following step Pagani takes is pointed on the U.S.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
Zonda manufacturing will spherical out at one hundred with an added version known as the R, a music-oriented version inside the photograph of Ferrari's FXX. Looking like a nevertheless-more-competitive Zonda ? If you may believe this kind of issue ? The R can have a 750-bhp model of the AMG V-12.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
While that project is being wrapped up in the original factory in San Cesario sul Panaro, both a new factory and car are being prepped for 2009. Code-named the C9, the new Pagani will be a carbon-fiber machine, possibly powered by a Mercedes/AMG V-8, so how about the SLR's supercharged V-8 with its 617 bhp and 575 lb.-ft. of torque?
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
Here's the best news: Having been frustrated in attempts to certify the Zonda in the U.S., Pagani will design the C9 for sale worldwide. We might see the new car at the 2009 Geneva show. Although there haven't been any concept drawings yet, we can count on the new Pagani being exciting...and fast. And expensive.
The Zonda nears the end of its run, but a new exclusive is in the offing from Horacio Pagani.
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