Topic about Pagani Zonda

[Guest angela]

Topic about Pagani Zonda

[Guest Otsego]

OMG i just WET myself ;D

[Guest wc]

Pagani are going to stop production of the Zonda but not without going out with a big bang...

Ooh, R

Now that’s what we call going out with a bang. The Pagani Zonda will soon be put out to pasture - to be replaced by an even more extreme supercar codenamed the C9 – but not without a final, ultra-extreme goodbye.

This is the Zonda R, a madly expensive, madly fast version of Pagani’s hypercar set to go on sale some time next year.

Limited to just 10 examples – five for the track and five for the road – the Zonda R will cost an eye-watering 2,000,000 Euros. And that’s before you’ve specced the iPod connector…

Though it looks superficially similar to the other Zondas, the R shares a mere 10 per cent of its underpinnings with the outgoing model. Some five centimetres longer than the Zonda F, the R’s shape is even more focused on downforce – there’s a bigger splitter, a bizarre new rear diffuser and, as you may have spotted, a mahoosive rear wing.

More significantly, Pagani has ditched the Mercedes-sourced 7.3-litre V12 in favour of AMG’s six-litre V12 as found in the S65. That should be good for around 650bhp and, we’d guess, a 0-60mph time pretty close to three seconds.

The production Zonda R should be unveiled at the Geneva motor show next spring. Time to start saving up, then?

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/pagani-zonda-r-2008

[Guest wc]

here's a couple pics of the Zonda R

[Guest angela]

dear god... heaven is a place on earth, and i need to blast down that highway in one of these.........

[Guest wc]

dear god... heaven is a place on earth, and i need to blast down that highway in one of these.........

so do i, but they are just going to do a fully stripped out version only to be used on tracks...

Open wide and say R

We’ve seen sketches and renderings galore, but here it is in all its carbon fibre-clad, titanium-strewn glory: the Pagani Zonda R.

Just unveiled in Vienna, the R is the very final iteration of the Zonda, a 739bhp, Mercedes V12-powered, lightweight monster that says ‘so long, and thanks for all the tyre smoke’ pretty damn effectively, in our book.

Though the R represents an emotional send-off for the Zonda – don’t worry, Pagani says it’s working on a brand new hypercar (codenamed the C9) for next year – it shares just 10 per cent of its components with previous models.

The bodywork is composed of a seriously lightweight, seriously expensive carbon fibre-titanium blend, meaning the rear-drive R tips the scales at just over 1000kg. Yes, that’s a 700bhp-per-tonne power-to-weight ratio.

With Pagani’s first paddshift gearbox taking care of transmission duties, that means a 0-60 time of three seconds dead (sheesh) and a 233mph top speed (double sheesh). You’ll probably need to fiddle with the adjustable aero flim-flams to make sure you don’t enter the stratosphere at that speed.

Just 16 Zonda Rs will be built – fifteen will go on sale to the public, and one will stay ‘in company hands’ at Pagani – at a cost of around £1.3 million each. Oh, and you won’t even be able to drive it on the road. Not legally, anyhow.

But, quite frankly, who the hell is going to be able to catch you to tell you off?*

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/pagani-zonda-r-2009-02-06