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 some other tremendously prized excellent amongst exotic vehicles: rarity, with fewer than 100 in existence.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
While missing the classic, flowing beauty of a Pininfarina-designed Ferrari, the Zonda's shape is an attention-getter. It stops you to your tracks. We didn't suppose the layout would age properly, but a decade down the road it nevertheless rivets attention and holds it ? From that low nose with its four small headlamps returned to the massive center exhaust port corralling 4 stores. A photographer's dream.
2011 Pagani Zonda C9
The appealing indoors is a mix of modern-day (carbon fiber), retro (toggle switches) and art deco (the design of gadgets and controls) accented with aluminum and exceptional 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-pace manual transmissions, Brembo disc brakes and have the sort of A-arm suspensions you'll count on 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 cease of its run. But do not mourn the supercar an excessive amount of 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 introduced version called the R, a song-orientated model in the photo of Ferrari's FXX. Looking like a nevertheless-extra-competitive Zonda ? If you could imagine any such component ? The R may have a 750-bhp version 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 give up of its run, but a new special is inside the offing from Horacio Pagani.
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