GT5 Transcripts/Pagani Zonda C12

In 1999, one car maker decided to challenge the sports car world by building the ultimate exotic. This maker was Pagani. The company founder, an Italian named Horacio Pagani, loved cars and machines, and had been attracted to fast cars since childhood. He even participated in the F3 championship in Argentina in his youth. Why Argentina? Because it was the home country of his childhood hero, Juan Manuel Fangio.

Returning back to Italy and becoming an engineer, Pagani worked on Ferrari and Lamborghini cars using his special knowledge in carbon technology. He took this experience to build a prototype supercar in commemoration of Fangio. This evolved in another project that ultimately became the Zonda.

The radical exotic was powered by a Mercedes-Benz 6.0-liter V-12 that was mounted amidships. It pumped out 389 HP and 420.6 ft-lb of torque, instantly making it a force to be reckoned with. Starting with his favorite carbon monocoque, the manufacturing of parts was completely race oriented, and the suspension was a full-scale pushrod system.

Soon, the C12 evolved into the C12S. The biggest difference in the cars was the body, which was composed entirely of carbon. With AMG working on the engine, displacement increased to 7010 cc, with power upped to 542 HP. In 2003, the C12S saw its engine displacement increased to 7291 cc, thus changing the car's name to C12S 7.3.