New Pagani Alisea Concept With IED Asks To Be Built

Pagani teamed up with 24 young designers from IED Torino to create a concept to celebrate a quarter century of the supercar brand.

The Pagani, long the new kid on the supercar block, isn’t new anymore. The Modena brand turns 25 this year and to celebrate the milestone Pagani has teamed up with a team of trained designers to create the hypercar concept, the Alisea.

A perfect example is the work of students in the Master Course in Transport Design at IED Torino in Italy, who worked together with Pagani at every stage of the project from drawing the car to creating digital 3D models and finally creating a 1:1 concept.

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Occupying the same kind of road space as the original Zonda, the 4,520mm (178in) long Alisea rides on a 2,795mm (110in) wheelbase, but the roofline sits 75mm (3in) closer to the ground. The visual connection to the Zonda – and to a lesser extent, the Huayra it replaced – is clear, but the IED team says it paid special attention to the surface to keep the bodywork as clean as possible.

Unlike most big combustion cars, which always try to get a lot of air into their mid-mounted engines and cooling radiators, the Alisea has no side scoops. That was the look that Horacio Pagani achieved in the original Zonda by placing the intake above and below the main quarter panels where they were unobtrusive.

The IED assures us of the lack of vents and inlets not below the electric power switch: there is still an AMG V12 behind the seats, the students say, or at least there would be if this was more than a design study.

The bubble canopy is inspired by the Group C endurance racers of the 1980s, just like the Zonda did, but the curves are smoother and more natural, and the IED crew has updated the look of the trademark quad headlight and also lowered the mirrors. its famous A-pillar.

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Large fender flares at each corner increase the low height of the rear deck and the rear end is dominated by a rocket-style exhaust setup, which exits from the center of the tail, another staple of the Pagan design.

Do you think this concept could make a good basis for Pagani’s future hypercar or is it too derivative and not aggressive enough?