03 July 2009 - 11:00
Cinque hole
If you thought Pagani had milked the Zonda for all its worth, think again. This is the new Cinque Roadster, a roofless version of the Cinque Coupe, based on the track-only Zonda R. Like the Coupe, the Roadster has a carbon-titanium body, which means it's more rigid than concrete.
And because carbon is so strong, Pagani hasn't had to faff about making the Roadster as tight and honed as the Coupe - give or take the odd chassis tweak. Which means it weighs exactly the same at 1201kg. That's good news for the power-to-weight ratio, because behind the driver sits a 678bhp Mercedes V12.
Pagani's engineers were obviously kept awake at night, thinking up new ways to keep this thing agile. Everywhere you look there's high-tech stuff, from the magnesium-aluminium wheels to the magnesium-titanium suspension. There's even a ceramic coated exhaust (Wedgewood, we believe).
It's a very special bit of kit, then, and only five will be made. So what's stopping you? Not the £1.1-million price tag, surely?
Now watch James give the Zonda a thrashing, with a little help from the Stig:
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WOW I WANT IT, i bet that is going to be good, down the straights.
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So this is a limited edition of a version of a version of the track version of the version of a Zonda?!
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I LOVE IT!!! Looks great and I bet it drives well. If only they were gonna make more of them. 5 is a very limited production but it's a very special car as well I suppose.
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I agree. It looks mad!!
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who cares about straights, it's about the corners
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7th comment wooo!!!
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Dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME paintojob , though I am not able to make out the difference between the cinque and the zonda .
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noice. it's annoying, all the cars I like are uber expensive... it just depends on whether you think it's a bargain or not.
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I am quite impressed with the carbon-titanium body and the roofless style but overall the paint job rocks!!!!!
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people, the car really rocks especially the paint job , u i wonder how would this art work look in my fav. GULF RACING colors. top gear please be the first one to test this car for potential buyers like me. lol........
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If i was going to buy a track car i would go for the McLaren F1 GTR longtail. This zonda is a nice car but its nothing diffrent from any other zonda except you cant drive it on the road
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Would Pagani like to be sponsored by Martini? That's what the paintjob reminds me of: '70's Porsches and Lancias.
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very nice looking car
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Beautiful combination of form & function. Can't wait to see where Pagani take things with the imminent Zonda replacement.
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if i had all the money in the world i would get that and a veyron
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Mikeado (comment 1). GTbyCITROEN isn't actually going to be made, I don't think. Correct me if i'm wrong, but I thought that it was just a car to enhance the GranTurismo playstation game. I don't think that it's actually going into production. But yeah, the One-77, Reventón, the big Bug, Mantide et al. It seems the rich-brigade want to be exclusively catered for.
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how many versions can you make of one car?the great part is that there are people with the cash to snap up all these outlandish cars!
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Mikeado commented on this article
03 July 2009
What's the new obsession with very low-production £1million megacars? The ONE-77, the Bertone Mantide, the GTbyCITROEN, now this. If I were going to go for this one, I'd ask them not to paint that red stripe down the middle. It's a bit apologetic in it's thinness and it sticks out rather than stands out.
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