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2 PAGANI ZONDA

‘THOSE ZONDA QUALITIES THAT SHONE SO BRIGHTLY REMAIN DAZZLING TO THIS DAY’

LIFE IS GOOD WHEN YOU HAVE THE KEY TO A Pagani Zonda tucked in your pocket. It’s a feeling we got to know very well at evo over the years, thanks to many visits to Pagani’s factory in San Cesario sul Panaro, and, of course, the utterly surreal period when Harry Metcalfe’s sensational C12-S regularly sat outside evo Towers.

It’s a happy coincidence that both Pagani and were founded in 1998. Our paths wouldn’t cross until March of 1999, when the Zonda C12 was launched at the Geneva motor show. Weirdly, few people seemed to pick up on it, but, curious about a new supercar that looked like nothing else and came from a company we’d

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