My Favorite Cars #6: Pagani Zonda Cinque #blogpost

First up, a brief history of Pagani: It was founded by Horacio Pagani, a former employee of Lamborghini. The company originally destined itself to the carbon fibre research, later it derived to cars, presenting their first car, the Zonda C2, in 1999. The Cinque is up next. Born as a special project for a Hong Kong Pagani Dealer, “SPS”, that was produced in only five pieces that all were sold (of course). It was the first Pagani to feature a sequential gearbox, with you being able to control the gears from both the paddles on the back of the steering wheel and with the traditional stick on the center console.

The Body

The Cinque is the first Pagani to feature Pagani’s special Carbon-Titanium, a special composite developed by pagani for this car, which is also used in actual models. Its changes over the standard Zonda F are a longer front spoiler, a redesigned rear wing, a MASSIVE roof scoop and some weird rear intakes for the rear brakes. A flat bottom and rear air extractors will improve the downforce to 750kg @ 300km/h. The paint is a white body with a clear carbon fibre center stripe and a red stripe across the car, you also get 8 twin-spoke wheels with a red ring and P-Zero’s to leave you sticked to the floor wherever you are

The Engine

The engine is the same 7.3L AMG engine found in previous Zondas, but this time it was pumped up to a much more respectable 747hp producing 523lb-ft of torque. The gearbox is a Cima 6 speed sequential robotized by Automac (No, not McDonald’s to-go service). You also get a titanium exhaust that’s covered in ceramic, 6 piston carbon ceramic Brembo brakes, a 47-53% front-rear weight distribution and a dry weight of 1210kg. You’ll be propelled to 62mph from a still in only 3.4 seconds, and nor to 124mph will take you only 9,6 seconds.

The Interior

On the interior you’ll find carbon racing seats covered in leather developed by Toora, 4 point seatbelts, and steel roll-bars coated in carbon fibre (weight reduction bro), on the center console you get a nice “Zonda Cinque” sign to remind you that you’re driving a 1.5m dollar car, also, carbon fibre everywhere.

Overall

Since it’s a special car for a special Pagani owner, you’ll enjoy driving this car, a lot. Since it is so special, you can’t ask for a custom spec as you’d with a “standard” Pagani, even though if you are lucky enough to own one of only five, you’d like it to have it custom made for you.

With this lazy blogpost done, it’s time to give this an end.

Agus out_