The first Pagani has arrived in Brazil to immediately become the country's most expensive car with official importer Platinuss unveiling the Zonda F in São Paulo and revealing plans to import just one of the Italian supercars a year.

Pagani Automobili designated Brazilian luxury car dealer Platinuss as its official importer for Brazil; the agreement was established in October of 2007. The Zonda F is the first of the Modena built cars to be imported and it becomes the most expensive car to be sold in the country, with a base price of R$ 4 million Reais (1,500,500 euros).

To herald the arrival of the Pagani Zonda F, Platinuss, who also manage Lotus, Lamborghini, Bugatti and Bentley dealerships, held a press conference in the 'Espaço Rosa Rosarum' which is one of the most sophisticated places in the City of São Paulo city, a perfect venue to present the carbon-fibre bodied, 594 bhp 7.3-litre V12 AMG Mercedes-Benz powered supercar which travels from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.5 seconds, has a power-to-weight ratio of 521 bhp/ton and a top speed in excess of 320 km/h.

"We plan to import just one unit in 2008 and the same number for 2009, in 2010 two units will be available, as it's a niche car and we want to keep its exclusiveness as high as possible. We will begin our operations as a car importer with Pagani Zonda F, but our target is to bring to the country the most sophisticated and luxurious cars of the world, very special models and limited series, cars that will fulfil Brazilian’s dreams," commented the CEO of Platinuss Mr. Natalino Bertin Júnior, at the press conference.

In the mind of Horácio Pagani, the Argentinean owner and founder of Pagani Automobili as well as the Zonda's designer, the car is more than merely an object of desire, its conception is the whole synthesis of ‘state of the art’. The Zonda F has the most sophisticated technology on-board which is present in racing cars; while design, exclusiveness and refinement on every detail are the others aspects in the model. Just 25 units are built each year in the modern facilities of Pagani Automobili in Modena, Italy; and each supercar is different from the one that went before.

by Claudio Perlini