Horacio Pagani's Zonda : the most admired car at the Paris Motor Show 2002.
Before even starting the engine, just by revewieng the spécifications, the experts reckon that its incredible torque-to weight ratio makes Zonda the most phénomenal car ever put on the road. 750 Nm means 15 % more than the Enzo...with 120 kg less weight ! No comments.
Torque-to-weight ratio of the Zonda : 600 mN/Ton ; ratio of the Enzo : 480 mn/Ton...
This outstanding engineering leadership demands time, resources, painstaking accuracy, and highly qualified craftmanship ; only twenty to thirty of these extraterrestrial machines to be built each year by Pagani. As the "Commendatore" modestly say : "the Zonda is nothing but the result of an extremely complex search for the simplest solutions".
Simple, admittedly, but nobody else could manage such technological challenges such as the central all-carbon chassis (exactly like a Formula 1), and such as the instantaneous response to the driver's demand, in acceleration as well as in cornering power. Another unique feature of the Zonda is the "quality of life" that the drivers enjoys, with an abundance of supple leather, equipment, see-through roof, and comfort that high-performance cars rarely manage.
To go with this conception, and ensure life is actually better with a Zonda, Pagani supplies leather and carbon luggage from Cuoio Schedoni (the "Italian Hermès"), with matching suit-cover and nubuck shoes to your measure ; Horacio Pagani is not only a high-level engineer, a genius car designer, and an obsessive perfectionist...he is also an hedonist with highly refined and civilised views. He doesn't care for his competitors' (most often excessive, and never met) claims. His brainchild is a true hurricane of sensations, going from the sheer bliss of cruising at medium speed at Ibiza, to terrifying storms of power (Zonda is a violent meteorological phenonmenon that only exist in the hights of the Argentinian mountains).
The Zonda exists. It's yours for € 397,500 (before tax)...if you are capable of choosing the absolute best (and if you are patient).
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