History Cars : Pagani Zonda...

January 1988. Fangio invites to supper a group of friends. I was happy to be among them and that he considered me such. This unbelievable man: simple, authentic. It was so and it is still it an example. You/he/she has won 5 world titles that all remember. I was very small and I don't remember the facts. The unbelievable aspect was him, the man, its feelings, the concepts that it expressed. I had always dreamt and worked hard to turn into reality my dreams. That evening, imagining an auto inhaled to his/her life, a great common friend, Juan Manuel Bordeu told me: "Horacio, draws an auto with the name Fangio"... I will never forget his/her look... it transmitted his/her modesty, his/her desire not to appear... This mysterious rubber band, this ideal starts to be born and he develops. Fangio told me: "I am thankful to all those that have given me the possibility to race, to win, however my maximum thankfulness goes to the Mercedes Benz. I am a man Mercedes." It is continuous: "The car must have this motor, remember him/it, if a day you will do her/it."

In that period, I was very tied up to the Lamborghini, mark that I have loved and I still love. My life was all devoted to the projects that had been submitted me to Sant'Agata. Despite this, in August '88 made to see to Fangio my first sketch. It spoke of a motor Mercedes 12CC and I had hypothesized a lay out with this solution. After the meeting with Fangio, I told to the Ing. Dallara this initiative. He told me: "The Miura has perhaps been the last example of sporting car inspired since that time to the sports prototypes." The convergence of thought that I had with Dallara and Fangio, strengthened the concept of automobile derived by the group C. Only in the '92 meeting the concentration, the calm and the inspiration necessary to draw the car. I introduce her to Fangio; I still remember the expression the look that you/they accompanied his/her approval. I told me with clarity: "All the projects are interesting when they stop being to turn him/it into reality."

The assignment was not easy, however it became stimulating, exciting. To create an unique car that reflected that objective and subjective values of an unique man. This car had to be beautiful and reliable not only, but above all original, simple, not comparable, technically to the state-of-the-art one. The design of the Super Car had to be original, inspired to the cars Sauber Mercedes of the group C. The line of ZONDA, that had to express new and old concepts, was born in few days. Subsequently we have analyzed her for almost one year through models, without however to effect substantial changes. The design had to be wide to all of its parts, inclusive those more hidden and techniques as the suspensions. Our objective difficulty was that to create a car without time, with forms and emotional details strongly and, at the same time, harmonic. Exaggerated but soft forms, without the banality of the too much circle. The cabin, small out as a fighter-bomber and comforting inside. An input of the project was to get that the position of the pilot was the more lined up possible with the center. In fact, the inclination of the seats and the steering wheel is of 1,5°. The car immediately had to strike, to have a long footstep, small starts and integrated bumper in the line. Finally, a whole series of details to be discovered few to little. We have devoted a special care, almost maniacal to the study and the finish of the particular ones that we will personalize with pleasure according to the applications of the clients. Input of the design: To make the 200 Km / h from firm.

The choice to use the prestigious mechanics Mercedes 12 CC in central position, revealed immediately him interesting both for its contained weight and for the unbelievable couple and power. Recently, a derivation of this motor 12 CC developed by the AMG won the World Championship G.T. The application of technologies of F.1, the loom and body shop in material composite advanced, patrimony consolidated of the Modena DESIGN, has allowed to realize a very rigid and light car without sacrificing the comfort. Carbon has been used in rational way according to the laws of the 15 years of experience.
Our cars are individually built and you/they can easily suit for the refinements of the future owners. Our objective was that to make to express to the carbon both the art and the technology, experienced hands you/they have worked him/it following this philosophy. In more, performs important it was to exalt the nature of the used materials. We have analyzed the use of an integral traction and the electronic suspensions, all brought to increase notably the weight of the car. We are assembled to create a simple car there, light, aerodynamically deporting in every condition and with a suspension very taken care of by the point of view elastocinematico. A good distribution of the weights and a very low baricentro give particular feelings of guide to all the speeds.