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And that ends the saddening pictures. Now, TopGearers, a minute silence in memory of the Zonda...
Although having said that, there's a chance it could have been repaired. There doesn't appear to be much damage to the tub and Pagani is renowned for repairing supercars that its customers have put into fences, etc.
Shame the same can't be said for most of the supercars who lost their mechanical lives in our gallery, 10 Supercar Crashes of Recent Times...
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There's a YouTube video of this crash's aftermath, too. You can see the owner running away from cameras...
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This isn't the first Zonda to be totalled on Hong Kong streets. About three years ago, a black Zonda F was destroyed in Hong Kong. That's mildly painful and enraging, because just 25 Zonda Fs were ever built. Two have been destroyed in Hong Kong and a third has met its end elsewhere in the world. Maybe Zonda should have fitted traction control...
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Judging by the pics, we're going to make an educated guess and speculate that the owner was roaring through the city streets, he might have hit a bump while accelerating, the car gets wheelspin and steps sideways. The driver, inexperienced with handling ferocious sideways supercars, winds on too much countersteer and snaps the gas closed. The car bucks like a bull, loses control, hits a tree in the median strip and spins into a traffic light.
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That's what happened in late January this year, when this Zonda met its horrible end. Alas, this is a photo of what the Zonda looked like before it was totalled. This is a different orange Zonda to the one that was killed, but we've included it just to delay the following terrible, saddening, can't-look-away pictures...
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Don't you hate those people who slow down when driving past car crashes? Yeah, we're guilty too.
It's not really a pleasant thing, given people might have been hurt, but there's something voyeuristically entertaining about seeing bent metal. It's why we watch car racing. It's certainly not for the epic amounts of overtaking.
Take the Zonda F here. A supercar whose panels were handcrafted by pipe-smoking, bearded little Italian men somewhere in the foothills of Maranello. Only for a Hong Kong businessman to bend said panels against a traffic light somewhere on the other side of the world, because the accelerator pedal got a bit too close to the carpet.
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The day a Zonda died
Pics that will bring a tear to your eye: a Pagani Zonda totalled in Hong Kong in January this year
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Pagani Huayra
We were told that the Zonda's replacement would be with us in late 2010... and it didn't happen. But after a string of delays we're looking forward to seeing Horacio's baby with its AMG bi-turbo V12, 515kW, 1100 torques and those trick aerodynamic flaps on each corner. Fingers crossed that 2012 is its year.
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Pagani Huayra
A week into 2012 and the hangovers have eased, we're begrudgingly heading back to work, and it's almost safe to sell those unwanted Chrissy presents on eBay (give it another week).
It's also a time where we can stop saying our goodbyes to 2011 and begin looking forward, because there is some really, really cool cars coming in 2012.
First off the rank: the Pagani Huayra.
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Video: this month's cover shoot
11 cars, 6071 bhp, £3.7 million and many tyres. Welcome to our fantastic new issue of Top Gear Magazine
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Top Gear meets the Pagani Huayra
Come with us for a closer look at the sensational Zonda successor, after last week’s packed public debut in Geneva
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Pagani unveils the Huayra: official pics
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Jeremy's new double DVD - out today!
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Watch an exclusive outtake from Jeremy's new DVD, The Italian Job
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