Retirement isn’t for everyone.
Take the Pagani Zonda, for example. The marque’s first hypercar technically went out of production in 2019, but special one-offs and rebuilds continue to pop up from time to time—including the latest, the Zonda Cervino, which made its public debut this past weekend at the Fuori Concorso during the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Italy.
It’s easy to see why Horacio Pagani’s company has had trouble putting the Zonda in the rearview mirror. The automaker’s first car debuted, more than a quarter-century ago, at the 1999 Geneva Motor Show. It arrived as basically the finished article, with its first version, the C12, combining a brash exterior, a steampunk-esque interior, and a naturally aspirated V-12. Over the next 20 years, Pagani would release 12 different iterations of the car and build 140 examples of the Zonda.
Pagani Zonda Cervino
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