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Pagani has teamed up with 24 emerging designers from the European Institute of Design (IED) Torino to create a concept car that celebrates the Pagani brand’s quarter-century.
Long the new kid on the block in the supercar world, Pagani is no longer new. The Modena-based brand turns 25 this year, and to celebrate, Pagani has teamed up with a team of intern designers to create a hypercar called Alessia.
The concept car is the work of students in the IED Torino Transportation Design Master’s course in Italy, who worked with Pagani at every stage of the project, from sketching the car to working on 3D digital models and finally creating a 1:1 scale model.
The IED team came up with a clean, sleek design. Smooth surfaces are accentuated by eliminating the large vents and air intakes typically found in high-performance vehicles. The bulging wheel arches enhance the sleek silhouette of a unique car that, like the Zonda, measures 80.9 inches wide.
At 178.0 inches long, the Pagani Alesia is slightly longer than its inspiration and sits lower to the ground. It’s just 42.1 inches long and features a cockpit dome inspired by Group C endurance racers from the 1980s. Compared to the Zonda, the familiar high-mounted mirrors have been reduced in size for a sleeker look without resorting to cameras. The distinctive quad headlights have a more modern look, while the curved taillights are reminiscent of the track-only Zonda R.
Unlike most combustion supercars, which always try to feed large amounts of air into their engines and centrally mounted radiators, the Alesia has no side vents—a look that Horacio Pagani achieved back in the original Zonda by placing the intakes above and below the main rear section panels where they wouldn’t catch your eye.
Overall, the Alessia looks more tame than the Zonda by eschewing the complex aerodynamic package found on countless AMG V-12-powered Pagani models.
The Alessia is a one-of-a-kind piece. However, we wouldn’t be surprised if Pagani adopted some design elements if a wealthy buyer was willing to pay an obscene amount for a one-of-a-kind car. If you can afford it, Pagani can probably build it, as evidenced by the countless Zonda specials we’ve seen over the past two decades.
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