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Droolworthy: Pagani rips the lid off its Cinque for new Roadster model

July 3, 2009

Filed under: Convertibles, Supercars

2010 Pagani Cinque Roadster - click above for high-res image gallery

Small-volume manufacturers like Pagani have to build all the variants they possibly can on what few platforms they have in order to continue to squeeze money and public interest out of their models. Thankfully, the company’s Zonda is so spectacular that we hardly tire of the seemingly endless number of riffs the Italian automaker is developing on the theme. Their latest is the Cinque Roadster, a decidedly draftier version of the already-released Coupe, itself a street-legal version of the track-only Zonda R.
The carbon fiber/titanium Roadster is expected to run to about 217 mph thanks to its 678 horsepower Mercedes-Benz/AMG V12 - a terminal velocity that’s the same as its hard-hatted brethren. Because the fixed-head coupe’s structure is so robust, Pagani hasn’t gone crazy with buttresses and braces, meaning that like the Coupe, the Roadster weighs 1210 kg [...]

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