Pagani Unveiled Its Latest One-Off Zonda This Past Weekend
Retirement isn’t for everyone.
Take the Pagani Zonda, for example. The marque’s first hypercar technically went out of production in 2019, but special one-offs and rebuilds continue to pop up from time to time—including the latest, the Zonda Cervino, which made its public debut this past weekend at the Fuori Concorso during the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Italy.
It’s easy to see why Horacio Pagani’s company has had trouble putting the Zonda in the rearview mirror. The automaker’s first car debuted, more than a quarter-century ago, at the 1999 Geneva Motor Show. It arrived as basically the finished article, with its first version, the C12, combining a brash exterior, a steampunk-esque interior, and a naturally aspirated V-12. Over the next 20 years, Pagani would release 12 different iterations of the car and build 140 examples of the Zonda.
Pagani Zonda Cervino
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Series production of the Zonda, or Pagani’s version of it, may have ended last decade, but the company has continued to release a trickle of custom one-offs in the years since. Some of these cars, including the Zonda Cervino, have been rebuilds based on an existing chassis but feature new bodywork and a host of other upgrades.
The Zonda Cervino, which the automaker calls a “complete reimagining” of the hypercar, was built by its customization service, Pagani Unico. It features a fully redesigned bespoke exterior finished in a two-tone paint job, pairing a metallic blue upper with a gloss black lower. The interior, meanwhile, features all the physical controls one expects from a Pagani along with blue and white leather upholstery, checkered seat inserts, and a signed plaque.
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The announcement is short on technical details, though the marque does say the car modifications have been made to “bridge the gap” between the vehicle’s analog soul and modern standards. No mention of the powertrain is made, but past one-offs have been powered by a 7.3-liter Mercedes-sourced V-12 that makes 750 hp and 575 ft lbs of torque. The car has been equipped with a newly developed suspension system with new dampers and other “top-tier” components.
There will, of course, be just one Zonda Cervino. That doesn’t mean the car will spend the rest of its time in its owner’s collection. This past weekend, another one-off, the Zonda Unica, went up for auciton, though it failed to fetch a bid in the expected $11 million to $14 million range.
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