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Horacio Pagani has had a surprising life. His passion for cars, speed and design emerged very early and, at the age of 12, he amazed everyone with models of supercars carved from wood or modelled in clay.

He made his debut into the world of racing cars when he was 20, designing an F.3 that competed in Argentina under the colours of the official Renault team. Then came an enormous number of industrial design projects in which he had an accelerated apprenticeship, combining a mixture of creativity and a maniacal search for perfection.

He met Juan Manuel Fangio, his childhood hero, who became the right person to introduce him to Modena, the home of legends like Ferrari and Lamborghini. And the miracle took place at Lamborghini.

It was engineer Alfieri who provided the young Horacio with the space to express his imagination and manual dexterity.

He started off as a third level mechanic in the bodywork department but was rapidly promoted to manager of the new composite material department. He took part in all the important projects of those years: the LMA Jeep, the restyling of the Jalpa, the design of the Countach Evoluzione (the first car in the world with a one hundred per cent carbon chassis), the Golf Caddy and the 4 valve Countach.

In 1988, he set up Pagani Composite Research which carried out various projects, including the restyling of the Countach Anniversary, for which the company also supplied the final details in composite materials.

At the height of this collaboration, Pagani worked with the team that designed the Diablo, the Lamborghini P140, the L30 and the Diablo Anniversary.

The difficult economic climate created in 1992 by the events linked to the Gulf War did not discourage Pagani from producing his own supercar.

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Pagani Zonda R first photos

By Ben Whitworth - www.carmagazine.co.uk

09 February 2009 09:00

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Ever been pootling around the Nürburgring in your Zonda and found it was a mite lacking in grunt? Of course you have. So you - and a couple of other like-minded Zonda owners no doubt – get on the blower to Horacio Pagani and ask him to see if he can spice things up a touch. As you do. The quite splendid result is this, the Zonda R, easily the most extreme road/track car to make it into production.

Spill the technical beans then…

The central monocoque is fashioned from an ultra-light and stiff carbon-titanium composite and powered by a mind-mounted Mercedes-Benz AMG V12 racing engine. The 6.0-litre powerplant is dry-sumped and delivers 739bhp at 7500rpm and 524lb ft at 5700rpm. The handcrafted unit is bolted directly to the chassis to enhance torsional rigidity. It powers the rear wheels through a magnesium-cased XTRAC 6-speed sequential paddleshift-actuated transmission that can swap cogs in just 20milliseconds. A self-locking rear differential ensures all that muscle is handled as effectively as possible – that and a 12-stage Bosch motorsport traction control system.

There’s more?

Much more – unusually, the throttle bodies are mechanically operated, the beautifully intricate hydroformed exhaust system is coated in ceramic, the entire body is fashioned from carbonfibre, while every screw, nut and bolt is made from titanium. The cabin is a small work of art in its own right. As well as being beautifully built, the two-seat cabin is functional too – those Toora seats are FIA homologated and comply with latest HANS standards, and the five-point safety belts and CrMo roll-cage are fitted as standard.

How heavy is the R?

The whole thing weighs just 1070kg – just a little more than our long-term Renaultsport Twingo – for an eyeball-flattening power-to-weight ratio of 690bhp per tonne. And because it’s aimed at track performance, the double wishbone suspension and aero package is fully adjustable and the brakes are vast – 380mm carbon-ceramic Brembo discs at each corner with six-pot callipers up front and four-pot units at the rear.

Let’s talk performance.

Well, it’s shattering, no matter which way you look at it. Pagani claims the R will hit 60mph in 2.7seconds and it has a top speed in excess of 215mph depending on the aero setup, which can be tuned to generate 1500kg of downforce. Impressive on-paper figures, but given our past experience of Pagani’s – they are some of the most dynamically brilliant cars we’ve ever driven – we expect the F to be absolutely mind-blowing on the track. The only thing holding us back is the price – we’ve done a quick whip round the office but we’re a few pennies short of the £1.27million asking price… here’s hoping Snr Pagani will do a journalist discount.

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a little too "busy" don't u recon?

almost jap tuner-ish in appearance! :blink:

I think you mean race car, rather than tuner. Lots aero aids like that on JGTC (Super GT) cars. The Z's used to have an addition to the backside that looked sorta similar.

Of course, JGTC looks don't mean it has to be Japanese, since Lambo's, Porsches and Ferrari's compete in GT300 too :)

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I think you mean race car, rather than tuner. Lots aero aids like that on JGTC (Super GT) cars. The Z's used to have an addition to the backside that looked sorta similar.

Of course, JGTC looks don't mean it has to be Japanese, since Lambo's, Porsches and Ferrari's compete in GT300 too :)

yeah pretty much - the first thing that popped to mind was that it looks like something which would be featured in a BMI "Hot Version" video! :D

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adey you learn somethin new everyday...that bit did puzzle me for awhile...thanks deva machang!

your welcome! :)

imagine getting into a car which is bound to have an ultra sensitive throttle with a few drops of oil,grease or grime on the soles of your feet! :blink:

disaster!

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