<< Prev Page 2 of 2 Pagani found inspiration for the exterior design in both the curves of the woman's body and the dominant Sauber-Mercedes Group C cars. The former can be seen best when looking at the car from above, while the latter resulted in a round, cab-forward cockpit. Other interesting cues included the small circular headlights and the group of centrally mounted exhausts. The interior was equally well executed and luxuriously appointed.
At Geneva the first person to sit in the car was the Mercedes-Benz CEO, which underlined the warm relations between the two companies and only further established Pagani as a serious manufacturer. Soon after the show, production commenced in Pagani's small factory in a suburb of Modena. In the first year five cars were built to the original specification, before an updated version was launched a year after its world debut.
Known as the 'Zonda S', the revised car featured a larger version of the AMG engine and styling tweaks. Now displacing just shy of 7 litres, the V12 now yielded well over 500 bhp. The exterior revisions included a Formula 1 inspired elongated nose and two separate wings on the back instead of one big one. It was the first of several major updates launched over the years but throughout the production span the basic design was retained.
The Zonda was finally replaced early in 2011 by the all-new Huayra. At least one of the five Zondas built to the original specification was used for crash-tests. All but one of the remaining cars were updated to later configuration. This includes the first prototype, which is still owned by Horacio Pagani to this day. << Prev Page 2 of 2
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Pagani found inspiration for the exterior design in both the curves of the woman's body and the dominant Sauber-Mercedes Group C cars. The former can be seen best when looking at the car from above, while the latter resulted in a round, cab-forward cockpit. Other interesting cues included the small circular headlights and the group of centrally mounted exhausts. The interior was equally well executed and luxuriously appointed.