Spied: 2011 Pagani C9

The Pagani Zonda and its different variants is an ultimate supercar from whichever direction you look at it. It is carbon-fiber insanity. The replacement of the Zonda, the C9, seems to be locked on setting the bar higher. The C9, which will also be sold in the United States, was spied recently and some of its pictures have created some buzz over the internet.

Thanks to Horacio Pagani himself, some of the details about the car is really satisfying the ears of supercar lovers. The C9 will have a V-12 6.0L power plant on a twin turbo that will be sourced from the Mercedes-AMG. The output of the C9 will be a whopping 700 horsepower and a torque of 737 pound-feet.

The numbers are a bit lower compared to the 750 hp of the Zonda R but they are still within the supercar range that can run side by side with the Shelby SSC Ultimate Aero TT and the Bugatti Veyron.

The production run might just be limited to 60 cars but that is a big jump from the 16 hand built units every year.  The boost in productions will be supported by the new state of the art facility near its Modena factory. The assembly will still be painstaking with the C9 having 3,70 parts which include a chassis made from carbon-titanium, specially designed Pirelli tires, and electronics from Bosch.

The Zonda will slow down its production until it ceases with the roll out of the C9 which has a starting price expected to be at $1.2 million.