739bhp, 1,070kg, €1.4 million

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I want to see it go round the Top Gear track. Amszing car.
 
Venom800tt
BLASPHEMY!
Plus, it still lacks carbon fiber wheels and such...
Maybe I just like CF too much.....
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Won't take long...
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I like CF but that is an overdose.
 
The only issue I have with this car is the cost.

Technically speaking I suspect the Zonda R is street legal in most regions... but I can't imagine ever even wanting to drive a car like that on the streets.

The Zonda R is quite clearly a track car modified slightly to make it street legal, and given that, it just doesn't seem like it's cost is reflective of what you are getting. This is especially true when you consider that for about the same cost of this car, one could fly to Italy and purchase a recent 1/2 of a kind world championship Ferrari Formula One car and get all of the following thrown in:
  • Dinner with the entire Ferrari F1 Clienti Team
  • Official Delivery Ceremony the next morning
  • Technical Briefing with the Clienti Team
  • On-track morning sessions in a Corsa Pilota car on Ferrari's Fiorano test track
  • One Hour Break for Lunch with the Team
  • On-track afternoon sessions in the F1 car on Ferrari's Fiorano test track
  • All of these activities will be filmed, and a copy will be given to the new owner.
  • In addition, they will get a custom Ferrari F1 racing suit, including gloves & shoes.
  • Finally, they will also get full support from the Clienti Team for the first year of ownership.

Not only that, but I can guarantee an F1 car with world championship history will dramatically increase in value. The same is not likely going to happen with a Zonda R, at least not for a very long time to come.

However, other than the cost, I'm sure the Zonda R would make for an amazing track car!
 
Digital-Nitrate
Technically speaking I suspect the Zonda R is street legal in most regions... but I can't imagine ever even wanting to drive a car like that on the streets.

The Zonda R is quite clearly a track car modified slightly to make it street legal, and given that, it just doesn't seem like it's cost is reflective of what you are getting. This is especially true when you consider that for about the same cost of this car, one could fly to Italy and purchase a recent 1/2 of a kind world championship Ferrari Formula One car and get all of the following thrown in:
  • Dinner with the entire Ferrari F1 Clienti Team
  • Official Delivery Ceremony the next morning
  • Technical Briefing with the Clienti Team
  • On-track morning sessions in a Corsa Pilota car on Ferrari's Fiorano test track
  • One Hour Break for Lunch with the Team
  • On-track afternoon sessions in the F1 car on Ferrari's Fiorano test track
  • All of these activities will be filmed, and a copy will be given to the new owner.
  • In addition, they will get a custom Ferrari F1 racing suit, including gloves & shoes.
  • Finally, they will also get full support from the Clienti Team for the first year of ownership.

Not only that, but I can guarantee an F1 car with world championship history will dramatically increase in value. The same is not likely going to happen with a Zonda R, at least not for a very long time to come.

However, other than the cost, I'm sure the Zonda R would make for an amazing track car!
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I don't know if it would be street legal. Apart from the slick tyres and the splitters and venturis that wouldn't last 100 yards on the road, i don't see any turn signals/indicators or anywhere where a number plate could be attached. I'm pretty sure Pagani has also stated that it's built for track use only too.

Like you said, for a similar outlay you could buy a fairly contemporary Ferrari F1 on the Clienti program. But you could also, for around an eighth of the cost, buy a 10 or so year old F1 or slightly older Group C racer, both of which would blow the Zonda R and similar FXX or even Caparo T1 out of the water on a track day. Even a Sub £100k ex F3000 or Champcar would show it a clean pair of heals.

The Zonda R is also totally unsilenced, which would rule it out of running at most, if not all, UK (and probably European) track days where ever increasing noise regs are really starting to limit what is allowed to run.

On the plus side, if a recent magazine article is anything to go by, all the Zonda's that have been produced so far are already currently worth a good percentage more than the initial purchase cost. 👍
 
Digital-Nitrate
The only issue I have with this car is the cost.

Technically speaking I suspect the Zonda R is street legal in most regions... but I can't imagine ever even wanting to drive a car like that on the streets.

The Zonda R is quite clearly a track car modified slightly to make it street legal, and given that, it just doesn't seem like it's cost is reflective of what you are getting. This is especially true when you consider that for about the same cost of this car, one could fly to Italy and purchase a recent 1/2 of a kind world championship Ferrari Formula One car and get all of the following thrown in:
  • Dinner with the entire Ferrari F1 Clienti Team
  • Official Delivery Ceremony the next morning
  • Technical Briefing with the Clienti Team
  • On-track morning sessions in a Corsa Pilota car on Ferrari's Fiorano test track
  • One Hour Break for Lunch with the Team
  • On-track afternoon sessions in the F1 car on Ferrari's Fiorano test track
  • All of these activities will be filmed, and a copy will be given to the new owner.
  • In addition, they will get a custom Ferrari F1 racing suit, including gloves & shoes.
  • Finally, they will also get full support from the Clienti Team for the first year of ownership.

Not only that, but I can guarantee an F1 car with world championship history will dramatically increase in value. The same is not likely going to happen with a Zonda R, at least not for a very long time to come.

However, other than the cost, I'm sure the Zonda R would make for an amazing track car!
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You can buy a championship winning F1 car complete with engine and support for under a million quid? Are you sure? I was sure they cost a huge amount more than that... there was an article in Car magazine about a bloke would did just that a few years back... sure he paid a lot more than £1 million for it.
 
TheCracker, all excellent points. I thought I had read that the Pagani R would be technically 'street legal', but as you say, there is little sign that that is true, or that even with the necessary modifications it would be allowed or more important, desirable to drive any where but on the track.



Stotty
You can buy a championship winning F1 car complete with engine and support for under a million quid? Are you sure?
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I'm pretty sure I said for about the cost of the Pagani R, which as stated in this thread is €1.4 million which is about 1.3 million quid.
 
Stotty
You can buy a championship winning F1 car complete with engine and support for under a million quid? Are you sure? I was sure they cost a huge amount more than that... there was an article in Car magazine about a bloke would did just that a few years back... sure he paid a lot more than £1 million for it.
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If you are willing to stretch to a 15 year old Championship winning F1, you can bag yourself one for £77,000.
 
Digital-Nitrate
TheCracker, all excellent points. I thought I had read that the Pagani R would be technically 'street legal', but as you say, there is little sign that that is true, or that even with the necessary modifications it would be allowed or more important, desirable to drive any where but on the track.





I'm pretty sure I said for about the cost of the Pagani R, which as stated in this thread is €1.4 million which is about 1.3 million quid.
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It´s definitely track only. Was an article about it in Car magazine. It was concieved to be "the most extreme Pagani they could build", and no more than 15 will ever be built, according to an understanding between Horacio and the current 10 buyers.
 
harrytuttle
So...what's with the tachometer in the center of the steering wheel? When you turn left, do your revs seem to go up or down?
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The center bit will probably stay still, like the center of a Citroen or a number of other cars nowadays.

I think it's cool... and if you drive it enough you won't need to look at the tach
 
Oh my god! When that thing comes from the distance at 2:34, shivers travel down my spine at lightspeed! :drool:
 
Oh my goodness. My mouth fell open when he started it up, never mind the rest :lol:
 
Boys I think we have a winner!!! Wow what a car, I love and have loved all Zonda's but that thing is just an awesome machine. Is this the last Zonda before the new car from Pagani?
 
With it's price, it will easily rival the Aston One-77 for big dollar/pound/euro cars. Turns out a new generation MAY have started...
 
previous generation supercars had 480-620bhp+.. the next? well.. 620-800bhp+? ( koenigsegg and other 1000bhp+ machines don't count, they're hypercars)
 
C-ZETA
With it's price, it will easily rival the Aston One-77 for big dollar/pound/euro cars. Turns out a new generation MAY have started...
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This isn't going to rival the Aston unless AM suddenly decides the One-77 needs to be a race car. ;)
 
The Cinque was revealed long before the Zonda R. Thus, I'm sure Pagani already had plans for a limited road version when they thought up the Zonda R.
 

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