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Act fast! Four of the five Pagani Zonda R Evolutions to be built have been sold

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We in the Digital Trend cars section often get into squabbles over which supercars we’d buy, should we ever win the lottery. Now we have one more car to bicker over: the $2.2-million Pagani Zonda R Evolution.

Based upon the not-so-street-legal Pagani Zonda R, the Pagani Zonda R Evolution features the Zonda V12 engine from Mercedes’ AMG. For the Evo version, power has been turned up to 800 horsepower. This will propel the Pagani Zonda R Evolution to 60mph in 2.7 seconds and onto a top speed of around 217.

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Pagani will only build five of these beauties and according to GTSpirit, the Italian supercar maker has already sold four of the five, so act fast.

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The pictures you see above are of the first Pagani Zonda R Evolution to roll out of the production barn and has simply been given a clear coat over its carbon fiber body. Sitting here, drooling over the pictures, we imagine eating our lunch off it, as sacrilegious as that might sound.

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What does the Pagani-tuned AMG V12 sound like? Check out the video below of both the Pagani Pagani Zonda R and the Pagani Huayra on the Nurburgring. They’re kind of shrill so if you’re at work, make sure your speakers are at full volume.

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