It began with Pagani Automobili S.p.A., an Italian producer of hypercars and carbon fiber elements, based in 1992 by Horacio Pagani, an Argentine-Italian entrepreneur, businessman, and automotive business engineer. His purpose for the corporate he created and situated in San Cesario sul Panaro, close to Modena, Italy, was to permit Pagani to design and engineer his personal automobile – initially dubbed Fangio F1 to honor Horacio’s buddy Juan Manuel Fangio, who can be an Argentine five-time Formulation One champion.
Nevertheless, he died in 1995 earlier than the completion of the primary collection mannequin, and Pagani renamed it Zona C12, which was geared up with V12 engines from Mercedes-Benz. In 1999, the supercar was offered on the Geneva Motor Present, and the remainder of the Zonda line – C, S, F, R, Cinque, Tricolore, Roadster, Roadster F, Revolucion, HP Barchetta, plus all of the bespoke models – is historical past.
Now, to honor the mannequin’s twenty fifth anniversary, Pagani Automobili collaborated with IED and its grasp college students to examine a possible continuation of the enduring two-seater designed by Horacio Pagani 1 / 4 of a century in the past. In accordance with the businesses, the Alisea hypercar idea automobile is a mixture of traditional Zonda components with fashionable touches and sporty particulars that pay tribute to Pagani’s sports activities automobile heritage. Whereas it is onerous to imagine that the primary Zonda got here out 25 years in the past, the sensation is exaggerated by the truth that Pagani labored on them for many of the intertwining time, and for certain, this epic supercar falls proper in step with all the opposite actual Zondas with out anybody batting an eyelash at its lineage.
The clear design penned by the 24 college students who gathered at IED from all around the world (from Italy to India and from China to Australia or Ecuador) was coordinated by Michele Albera, who ran the Grasp Course in Transportation Design alongside the Thesis Venture overseer Masato Inoue. Nevertheless, it wasn’t simply Pagani and IED that labored for the creation of the 1:1 scale prototype. As an alternative, the technical sponsors have been Pirelli, OZ Racing, Lechler, and the Alisea was created by Freeland.automobile, MINTT, AM Costruzione Modelli, Raitec, and Italian Wrap Design.
Sadly, this one-off affair is not earmarked for manufacturing by Pagani alongside current fashions like Huayra or Utopia, so there are not any technical particulars connected to it. Nevertheless, we wager that an prosperous buyer may simply fall in love with it and ask Pagani for a bespoke model – we’ve seen the unique automaker make numerous Zonda specials through the years, and this should not pose an issue for an obscene paycheck, after all. Till then, we are able to solely dream…