Awesome Pagani Zonda 'Attack' for sale
The Zonda F arrived 20 years ago - this has come some way since then
The Pagani Zonda story is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating of modern supercar history. Its origins were relatively humble, at least by the standards of Italian exotica, with somewhere around 400hp from the 6.0-litre AMG V12; given what was to follow, too, the styling was quite restrained. If, by the standards of 1999, like something from outer space.
Having never made a supercar before, though of course boasting plenty of experience from his time at Lamborghini, Horacio Pagani made a world beater. Then the Zonda just kept getting better and better and better. Typically cars will be evolved and improved over time, then replaced altogether, but that was never quite the case with the Zonda. Models like the 7.3-litre S and then F made sense as progressions of the formula, then it all went berserk: derivatives like the R, Cinque and Tricolore were very, very different prospects to those that had come before.
And even when the turbocharged Huayra replacement arrived, Zondas continued to come. Pagani had become too legendary for its original V12, and the demand could not be satisfied. The Wikipedia page for the Zonda suggests they were officially made for 20 years from 1999-2019, albeit with ‘special edition/one-off models still occasionally built in limited numbers’. You can say that again. The last car Pagani ever makes will probably be a Zonda - it’s one of the defining supercars of the 21st century in a way that the Huayra isn’t quite.
Whatever, the constant development and finessing of the Zonda by the factory means that all of them now, surely, deviate one way or another from original spec. This one represents perhaps the ultimate evolution of what can be achieved with a roadgoing Zonda from the factory (i.e. not a road converted R), and therefore has to be one of the most desirable on the planet. It’s known as the Attack, appropriately enough, and you might recognise it from a well known car collector on Instagram. After a couple of years and 1,500 miles in its latest incarnation, it’s time for pastures new.
Even by Zonda standards, it’s a phenomenal machine. Having begun life as a prototype F all the way back in 2007, the spec now includes the 760 derivative of the V12 - you can probably guess the power output - with power still reaching the rear wheels via a six-speed manual. Which would be exciting enough on its own, but the Attack also gets a few parts from the Cinque - visual carbon splitter, skirts, sills diffuser - rear lights like an R and body panels like the other 760hp builds. This is very evidently not ‘just’ a Zonda F anymore. The colour is unique - Grigio Knockhill, which is fun - and paired with extra visual carbon outside.
It’s utterly spectacular, of course. Even all these years later, there’s nothing to get a grown up car enthusiast all giddy like a Zonda, especially one in such a sensational configuration. You might go as far to call it the zenith of the traditional supercar, with all that power from a naturally aspirated V12, a manual gearbox and a focus on being a road car first and foremost. Certainly it’s hard to think of anything much more evocative that’s been produced by the Italian supercar makers over the past 20 years or so. Just don’t be surprised if it also costs more than anything else produced by the other makers; Zondas are incredibly valuable cars these days. Still, with very good reason at least.
Exquisitely crafted components, but designed by a vast, argumentative committee of Italian hand-wavers, then glued together into something so ostentatious and incohesive it's bordering on repulsive.
I would like to own any one individual piece of these cars, as an example of quality parts manufacturing, machining, shiny carbon weave etc. But the completed cars are just awful.
History should record the sound of these for the archives, then strip them apart for desk ornaments and coffee tables so we don't have to look at them any more.
Unbelievable spec on this, probably the ultimate iteration of the Zonda for the road outside of anything proper hard core.
Exquisitely crafted components, but designed by a vast, argumentative committee of Italian hand-wavers, then glued together into something so ostentatious and incohesive it's bordering on repulsive.
I would like to own any one individual piece of these cars, as an example of quality parts manufacturing, machining, shiny carbon weave etc. But the completed cars are just awful.
History should record the sound of these for the archives, then strip them apart for desk ornaments and coffee tables so we don't have to look at them any more.
Unbelievable spec on this, probably the ultimate iteration of the Zonda for the road outside of anything proper hard core.
He really does have some spectacular cars
Unbelievable spec on this, probably the ultimate iteration of the Zonda for the road outside of anything proper hard core.
He really does have some spectacular cars
I wonder if as he now has the P1 HDK that along with the T.50 has replaced the Zonda.
most stuff is. He really does have some spectacular cars
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