It's only been a few days since its debut at the Geneva Motors Show, but already the first of five Pagani Zonda Cinques is up for sale, and it's a bargain at $2,062,400.
Zonda Cinque chassis No. 1 is listed on JamesList, which is like Craigslist for people with Swiss bank accounts. Dropping $2 mil on a car is, we admit, more than a bit extravagant, and that kind of cash could get you a much faster Bugatti Veyron with enough money left over to put some gas in it.
But then this is a super fast, super exotic and super rare - just five! - Italian car. There's just something about mating Italian styling with a Mercedes engine and wrapping it all in about four acres of carbon fiber that makes us as giddy as a freshman being hit on by the prom queen.
Pagani says the Cinque combines the "road-going glory" of the
Zonda F unveiled in 2005 with the "track-only fury" of the Zonda R
revealed two years later. Hyperbole aside, it is an impressive car. The hand-built body covers a massive 7.3-liter Mercedes Benz AMG
engine. It produces 678 horsepower.
Acceleration is about the only thing Pagani does quickly. The company has built about 10 Zondas a year since its debut in 1999. The car was to be named the Fangio F1 in honor of racing legend and five-time Formula 1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio, a mentor of sorts to Horatio Pagani. That name was dropped in 1995 after Fangio's death and the car dubbed the Zonda after the viento zonda (or the air current) over Argentina, Pagani's birthplace.
The Cinque gets 84 horsepower over the Zonda, a clutchless sequential gearbox and carbon fiber bodywork reinforced with titanium. It weighs 2,668 dry and sports a power-to-weight ratio 3.90 lb/hp. The car will do zero to 62 mph in 3.4 clicks
We can only imagine what the Cinque is like on the road because we've got better odds of dating Bar Refaeli than driving a Zonda. But in both cases, it's nice to dream.
Photos: Pagani
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