spoiler and a new rear wing, a flat floor pan and new rear air extractors, the car creates 750 kg of downforce at 186 mph; that's half its weight in downforce. What's more, the Zonda Cinque generates 1.45g of cornering force - little wonder why the earlier Zonda performed so well on the challenging German track.
Key to the Zonda Cinque's remarkable agility and performance is the construction. "The particularity of Zonda is in its special materials and processing," Pagani explains. These aircraft-derived materials, combining technology and beauty, include carbon fiber, aluminum alloys chromiummolybdenum sheets and the latest development in advanced composed materials made with threads of carbon fiber and titanium. First used on Zonda R and Zonda Cinque, this last combination will also be used on future generation models.
Because of the lightweight materials, the Cinque's total weight is just 2,688 pounds without fluids - about 40 pounds less than that of the F model. Other cars in its class weigh from 30 to 50 percent |
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more. Pagani also attributes the Zondas' uniqueness to the highly specialized workforce creating and manufacturing them: "Skill and passion merge for a mix of technology and art expressed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci." Then, too, these cars are extremely exclusive - about 20 annually - some five times higher than the requested number. The Zonda is a great wine: "It expresses in the right doses a philosophy, a Latin spirit and a taste of Italy."
Although the car has been publicized in black, silver and red, the five owners can coordinate their interior and exterior colors with Zonda. All five Cinques, however, will be equipped with a carbon chassis, leather-covered carbon fiber Toora racing seats; a carbon fiber steering wheel; fourpoint seatbelts; molybdenum steel roll-bars with carbon fiber coating; and a rubber racing fuel tank with four fuel pumps and quick refuel filler similar to those on GT race cars.
Look for the five next year - but not too hard.
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