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Two years of hard work, and here it is, looking ready to rumble. It is the Pagani Zonda that looked like it was going to stay away from the road for a long time two years ago after a crash in Zagreb, Croatia. And it did. But the wait is finally over.
It was September 2022 when a video shot at a car meet, which was organized by the Supercar Owners Circle Club in Croatia, surfaced online. The footage showed a $17 million Pagani Zonda HP Barchetta rolling down a street. But seconds later, we heard a boom!
The driver must have had a very hard foot on the throttle. The car started spinning out of control. The noise announced the end of it. The Zonda had crashed into an approaching Ford Fiesta. The impact caused severe damage to the front suspension and part of the bodywork.
The crash looked every inch a disaster because the supercar was not only very expensive but also super exclusive. Only three such HP Zonda Barchettas had rolled off the production line, and one of them belongs to the owner of the car company, Horacio Pagani.
Since that moment, the Zonda had been sitting inside the factory, getting rebuilt. The last update we received was almost three months ago when we were told that all body parts were in the paint shop, soon to be assembled onto the car. It was an Instagram post that informed us that all damaged body panels were replaced and none of them was fixed.
The owner of the post was none other than the owner of the car himself, Oleg Egorov, who also owns the TopCar Design tuning house. The factory also replaced the wheels, which now sport a silver finish instead of the original black one. The driver's side rear wheel had been ripped off in the crash, so the replacement makes sense.
But other than that, the Zonda looks pretty much like it did before it crashed in Croatia. The matte carbon fiber bodywork looks as good as new.
The model belongs to someone who owns one of the world's largest collections of Pagani Zonda. It includes two Pagani Zonda Cinques, a Zonda R, a Zonda Tricolore, a Zonda 760 Roadster, and a Pagani Huayra BC. But the one that crashed back in 2022 is the most valuable of them all, starting at $17 million when new.
We can't blame the driver who crashed it for anything other than getting too emotional behind the wheel. But that is understandable, too. Keep in mind that seven-time Formula 1 champion, Lewis Hamilton, crashed his own Zonda back in 2015 during a drive in Monaco and labeled it as "terrible to drive." The Pagani Zonda HP Barchetta is powered by a 7.3-liter naturally aspirated V12 engine.
The power plant generates 789 horsepower (800 metric horsepower) and 627 pound-feet (850 Newton meters) of torque, all steered to the rear axle through a six-speed sequential manual.
Those are enough for the supercar to flash from zero to hero (0 to 60 mph or 0 to 97 kph) in just 3.0 seconds on its way to a top speed of 221 mph (355 kph).
The driver must have had a very hard foot on the throttle. The car started spinning out of control. The noise announced the end of it. The Zonda had crashed into an approaching Ford Fiesta. The impact caused severe damage to the front suspension and part of the bodywork.
The crash looked every inch a disaster because the supercar was not only very expensive but also super exclusive. Only three such HP Zonda Barchettas had rolled off the production line, and one of them belongs to the owner of the car company, Horacio Pagani.
Since that moment, the Zonda had been sitting inside the factory, getting rebuilt. The last update we received was almost three months ago when we were told that all body parts were in the paint shop, soon to be assembled onto the car. It was an Instagram post that informed us that all damaged body panels were replaced and none of them was fixed.
The owner of the post was none other than the owner of the car himself, Oleg Egorov, who also owns the TopCar Design tuning house. The factory also replaced the wheels, which now sport a silver finish instead of the original black one. The driver's side rear wheel had been ripped off in the crash, so the replacement makes sense.
But other than that, the Zonda looks pretty much like it did before it crashed in Croatia. The matte carbon fiber bodywork looks as good as new.
The model belongs to someone who owns one of the world's largest collections of Pagani Zonda. It includes two Pagani Zonda Cinques, a Zonda R, a Zonda Tricolore, a Zonda 760 Roadster, and a Pagani Huayra BC. But the one that crashed back in 2022 is the most valuable of them all, starting at $17 million when new.
We can't blame the driver who crashed it for anything other than getting too emotional behind the wheel. But that is understandable, too. Keep in mind that seven-time Formula 1 champion, Lewis Hamilton, crashed his own Zonda back in 2015 during a drive in Monaco and labeled it as "terrible to drive." The Pagani Zonda HP Barchetta is powered by a 7.3-liter naturally aspirated V12 engine.
The power plant generates 789 horsepower (800 metric horsepower) and 627 pound-feet (850 Newton meters) of torque, all steered to the rear axle through a six-speed sequential manual.
Those are enough for the supercar to flash from zero to hero (0 to 60 mph or 0 to 97 kph) in just 3.0 seconds on its way to a top speed of 221 mph (355 kph).
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