When someone offers you the opportunity to take the passenger seat or even better, get behind the wheel of any Pagani, be that the older Zonda or the newer Huayra, you should grab it like there’s no tomorrow. No need to explain why.
This time, the lucky chap who was able to jump inside a Pagani is Tim, a young British YouTube director of supercar videos that we’ve come to know under the nickname Shmee150. Even though Tim owns and drives a cool looking Audi R8 V10 Spyder, he admits the Italian exotic is in another league.
Here’s what he told us in an email message: “I don’t think you’ll want to miss this one as words really can’t describe it… the ultimate Pagani Zonda, epic V12 sounds, smokey donuts, flames from the exhausts, sideways action, one crazy experience.”
The car he jumped into for a heart-pumping ride is the Pagano Zonda 760 Nonno. And what’s that, you may ask?
Well, Tim explains: “In short, Nonno is a Pagani Zonda in 760 spec (like the 760RS and 760LH), it started as the 2nd ever Zonda to be built and has since been upgraded over 14 years and 1,100,000km on the clock to the feature the 760hp engine and the bodywork from the Zonda Cinque. It’s widely regarded to be the ‘ultimate Zonda’ and here you can see it going ‘mental’!”
Now, besides the awesome sounds and scenes in the video below, the other thing that immediately caught our attention was the Zonda’s alleged mileage: 1.1 million kilometers or close to 684,000 miles, which when divided by 14 years, comes to an average of 78,571 km (48,832 miles) annually and about 219km (136 miles) daily, which is a heck of a lot of driving for any vehicle, let alone an exotic supercar.
We emailed Tim about it, and we will update this post once he gets back to us.
Update: Tim confirmed the number on the Pagani’s odometer: “You heard correctly, it has done over 1,100,000km since being built in 1999!”
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