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Over 18 years, only 140 Zondas were built.
Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
2 May 2019
2 min read
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It seems like we are awash with super, hyper, and megacars today, with some new record-smashing land rocket released every month. But 20 years ago, as the 20th Century became the 21st, the top echelon of road cars was still recovering from the worldwide recession of the early 1990s. But the Pagani Zonda changed this at the 1999 Geneva Motor Show.

Plenty of supercar start-ups have come and gone through the ages, but the Zonda C12, named after a hot air current above Argentina, was different. Built around a carbon-fibre frame and powered by a Mercedes V12 it was the wildest supercar seen in years, and it scored rave reviews for its driving dynamics.

All up 140 Zondas have been built over the model’s 18-year production run, with updates in engine size and power, and interior and bodywork options.

The C12 was replaced by the faster, more powerful C12S, which was then superseded by a faster Zonda S 7.3 in 2002, which also added traction control and ABS as standard. For 2003 Pagani debuted a Roadster model, of which they built 40 examples.

The 2005 Zonda F saw significant upgrades to the Zonda platform, though only 25 of the 443kW twin-turbo V12 brutes were built, followed by 25 Zonda F Roadsters making 478kW. Several other special editions were built, including the Cinque, Cinque Roadster and Tricolore, though only in very limited numbers.

While the original C12 listed for US$280,000, and the C12S US$350,000, the later special-edition models rapidly increased in price. A Zonda F listed at US$1,400,000 new, while the three Zonda HP Barchettas sold in 2017, the last Zonda-based vehicles Pagani made, were snapped up for US$17,500,000 each.

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Australia has been home to a yellow Zonda Roadster for several years now, with that car reported to be valued around the $3,000,000 mark. Anyone looking to bring a Zonda into Australia should budget having to shell out more than $1,000,000 in import taxes and duties, before they attempt to register the car.

Is the Zonda cooler than any Lamborghini or Ferrari? Let us know in the comments.

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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