If you want to take on established supercar makers such as Lamborghini and Ferrari you have to offer something pretty special. That's exactly what fledgling supercar outfit Pagani did when it introduced the Zonda in 1999, with an amazingly flamboyant exterior design and a Mercedes-sourced V12 in the middle to guarantee sensational performance.

Always produced in tiny numbers at massive cost, the Zonda has been developed further with the arrival of the Pagani Zonda S in 2002 and the astonishingly rapid Zonda F Clubsport in 2006.