It might be a little late to still be covering the Frankfurt Motor Show 2009, but I couldn’t pass this up. Do you like carbon fibre? Do you like entomological magic? Then Horatio Pagani has built a $1.8 million track-day extrusion of ecstasy for you.
Have you ever seen such a mirror? It looks like the funiculus of Polyrhachis sokolova, a species of ant that nests in mangrove swamps, except instead of being made out of protein it’s made out of carbon fibre. In fact, the whole exoskeleton of the Zonda R is made of carbon fibre.
Then there’s the interior. More specifically, the ungodly paddle shifters… Continue reading