Pagani is an Italian performance automaker know for it’s iconic lineup of the Zonda, huayra etc. This company was founded by an Ex lamborgini official Horancio pagani in the year 1992.
As is from the brief Horancio pagani was an Lamborgini official from 1983 and had major contribution in the 25th anniversary Lamborgini Countach. But a secure job at Lamborgini simply wasn’t enough for Horancio pagani. Horancio wanted to make his company with some of the craziest, lightest, artistic and fastest cars.
So with this crazy idea of making one of the finest supercar which Italy had to offer. Horancio pagani started a journey . But Horancio was not alone in this journey , He had a very good friend who also belived in Horancio’s dream. This good friend was none other than F1 driver Juan Manuel Fangio.
F1 driver Juan Manuel Fangio gave Horancio one of the most game changing advice. The game changing advice for pagani was to source performance engines from Mercedes . As Juan Manuel Fangio was an F1 driver for Mercedes he knew the potential of fentastic V12 Mercedes engines. He belived that a Mercedes V12 could just take Horancios dream to a next level.
At that time AMG the performance engine manufacturer was owned but Diamer wich was agreement between Benz and cie (1926 – 1998). Diamer was a automotive giant and owned many brand under it’s parenting for example: AMG, BharathBenz, Mayback etc. So at that time Diamer’s AMG used to make V12 engines for Mercedes which resulted as the CLKgtr a performance beast.
But on strong recommedation of the loyal Mercedes Benz F1 driver Juan Manuel Fangio Diamer as the parent company agreed to supply purformace Mercedes-Benz M120 V12’s to Pagani as a brand. Everything was fine till the tragic news . It was the tragic news that shooked grounds for Horancio the death of F1 driver Juan Manuel Fangio in the year 1995. But somehow Horancio got over the tragic loss and released The First ever Pagani in 1999 The Pagani Zonda.
Zonda had a power output of either 400 PS (294 kW; 395 hp) or 450 PS (331 kW; 444 hp) at 5,200 rpm and 550–640 N⋅m (406–472 lb⋅ft) of torque at 4,200 rpm mated to a 5-speed manual transmission.
The C12 can accelerate to 97 km/h (60 mph) in 4.0 seconds and to 161 km/h (100 mph) in 9.2 seconds.
An absolute beast with elagance.
Since then a lot has changed Diamer was then bought by Fiat Chrysler Automobile. But nothing has changed with Mercedes-Benz engine supply and Pagani’s relationship. Mercedes still supplies V12 engines to Pagani . And Pagani still offer’s the finest Italian hyoercars. Mercedes also respects the fact that it’s V12 are in good use with Pagani and hence doesn’t use the exclusive V12’s for Pagani’s. Hence we only see V12’s in Mercedes-Benz’s luxury lineup. That’s the reason all Mercedes-Benz supercars are powered by a AMG V8.
Fun Fact:
The first Pagani was named Zonda after the death of F1 legend Juan Manuel Fangio as a tribute to his contribution.
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