Street legal Zonda: The ultimate Zonda.
The Zonda Revolution was unveiled by Pagani in June 2013, as the final song to the AMG-powered hypercar. Technically, this was not true. There were many one-offs that followed, but these were actually fully refreshed versions of existing cars. Officially, the Zonda R Evo, as some refer it, is the last version of the breed. Only five were made.
Lanzante Limited, the UK-based company that developed the McLaren P1 GTR-based LM, is currently converting one of them for street use. We don’t know the details of the modifications it will undergo, but it is likely that the suspension setup will undergo some changes to make it more flexible than its original configuration for flat surfaces like race tracks.
The Zonda Revolucion’s V12 6.0-liter naturally aspirated engine produces 800 horsepower (597kilowatts), and 538 poundfeet (730 Newton meters) of torque in the track-only configuration. These numbers are impressive eight years later but less than the Huayra R, which boasts 850 horsepower (625 kW), and 553 lbft (750 Nm), both of which were co-developed by HWA.
P1 GTR and the Zonda Revolucion are not the only hypercars that were originally designed for the circuit. A relevant example is the Aston Martin Vulcan, which was modified by UK-based RML Group in order to be eligible to receive a license plate. Brabham released a conversion kit for BT62 about a year ago to make it street-friendly. Porsche made a special 911 GT1 Evo race car (not to be confused the 911 GT1 Strassenversion), during the late 1990s.
To return to the Zonda Revolucion, Lanzante is currently analyzing the hypercar in order to determine what needs to be changed to make it road-worthy.