Saudi businessman left his 1-of-1 Pagani Zonda untouched for six years and it made him a $4,000,000 profit

A Saudi businessman bought a one-off Pagani Zonda Riviera for a fortune, never drove it – literally not even once – and then sold it for nearly twice the price a few years later.

The owner had originally bought this supercar at auction in 2019 for a hair under $6 million, and he’s now sold it for a little over $10 million.

That’s a 70 percent return over six years.

That’s certainly newsworthy, but we have to talk about the way this collector somehow managed to add almost zero miles to the odometer count.

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This is one of the most expensive Pagani Zondas ever sold

The ‘standard’ Pagani Zonda spawned a very long list of few-offs and one-offs, which is what this is.

Based on the 760, it’s called the Pagani Zonda Riviera, and it’s easily recognizable thanks to the distinctive blue stripe that offsets the black-and-white color combo, and the eyebrow-shaped air scoops right below the headlights.

This is a 2006 model, and it’s had a few different owners since.

The last owner – the Saudi businessman in question – made a fortune with this car.

He just sold his hypercar for exactly $10.13 million after buying it for $5.88 million in 2019.

That’s certainly impressive, but we’re also interested in this car’s mileage, because what this businessman did is incredible.

This must be a world record

This Pagani Zonda Riviera was sold with 564 miles on the odometer, which is pretty standard for rare hypercars that sell at auction.

But the crazy part is 563 of those miles were added between 2006 and 2019, because this Saudi businessman somehow managed to add less than a mile in six years.

It is generally difficult to keep what they call ‘delivery mileage’ to two digits, let alone one digit, but this owner managed to put a grand total of 0.5 kilometers under its belt.

For people who can afford a Zonda like this one, that’s probably the distance between their master bedroom and the nearest bathroom.

It’s hard to even comprehend how he did it.

Even if you’re absolutely determined to never drive it, you still have to load the car on to a truck and then get it off the truck, and then drive it into a garage, and so on and so forth.

And then we’re presuming maintenance was involved.

We’ve no idea how this owner managed to do all of that while only putting less than one kilometer on the clock.

But, clearly, it paid off.

The evolution of the Zonda

1999: The first Zonda C12 is unveiled at Geneva Motor Show
2002: Pagani upgrades it with a newer and bigger V12
2003: The first open-top Zonda debuts
2005: The new Zonda F (Juan Manuel Fangio) debuts with more power and a limited production run of 25 units
2007: Pagani launches the Zonda R, a track-only hypercar
2009: Pagani unveils the new Cinque as a tentative ‘swan song’ for the Zonda
2010: Zonda Tricolore, a tribute to the Italian Air Force, is introduced (Lionel Messi owns one)
2017: New HP Barchetta makes its public debut as the world’s most expensive new car