Pagani Zonda R Converted into a Wall in a Miami Condo
Owner removed the engine, mounting the Pagani on its side to divide the living room and bedroom.
The odds are good that if you are reading this, you have loved a car so much that you constantly worried about it being damaged while on the road or parked out of your view. According to Daily Mail, one Pagani Zonda R owner was so concerned about the safety of his hypercar that he had the car hoisted into his fifth-floor apartment in Miami, where it now serves as the wall that divides his living room and bedroom.
A Pagani Wall
The owner of this Pagani Zonda R, who asked to remain anonymous, was so concerned with the safety of his hypercar that he decided that the street wasn’t a safe location for the 740-horsepower machine. He also didn’t feel that a garage was safe enough. He wanted the car someplace where he could be assured that it was safe, so he had the car mounted on its side in his fifth-floor Miami apartment.
To be more specific, the owner tapped Brazilian design firm Artefacto to transform his Pagani into the bedroom wall of his apart. This entailed removing the V12 engine and while the article didn’t state this, we imagine that the entire drivetrain was removed to prevent any stray fluids from dripping onto the floor of this posh apartment building. Even with the engine removed, the car still weighs more than 800 pounds, so it wasn’t easy to get it into the building. Aside from getting clearance from the building management, the owner also had to get permission from the city to store a car in his apartment.
To get the car into the building, Artefacto had to remove the windows and window framing of the owner’s apartment, using a crane to lift the car up into the unit. From there, they fabricated a mount that keeps the car situated on its side. The roof of the car faces the living room and the undercarriage faces the bedroom, with the nose of the carbon fiber machine pointed out the huge windows.
Once the car was mounted as a wall, making it an artful wall and not wall art, the rest of the apartment was decorated to work with the Pagani Zonda R. There is no question that it looks cool, but we have to wonder whether this is really the best location for a rare hypercar.
Stationary and Sad
While this story may fall under the category of “if you have the money, why not”, most automotive enthusiasts will cringe at the idea of ripping the engine out of a rare hypercar, hoisting it up to a fifth-floor apartment and mounting the car on its side. While it is cool to look at, this rare sports car was built to be driven; built to hit insane speeds and grip the road like it is on a rail.
This is one of the world’s best-performing hypercars and it is meant to be driven, but at this rate, the car may not even be driven again and that is just plain sad. Anyone who can afford to have a $1.5-million car stripped of its power plant and converted into a wall could have paid someone to make an exact replica to use as art while still enjoying the drive in the Zonda R. Instead, it could be argued that this car has been ruined, sentenced to a life of stationary solitude in a Miami condo, like a thoroughbred horse forced to live its life in a narrow stall.
