PAGANI HUAYRA

The wind is blowing in a different direction now. No, don’t get us wrong we are not reporting the weather of any place, we are talking about the representation of Horacio Pagani’s seven years of hard work, which has shaped as the 50th-scale aluminum 2012 Pagani Huayra. The project was long known as the C9 but after the fruition at his workshop, it’s the “Huayra”, which is the name of a god of wind in the Andes. The name absolutely personifies what a car powered by a twin-turbo V12 engine and having a top speed of more than 200 mph is capable of doing.


Pagani got great success over the decade with their outrageous design sense, and with 2012 Pagani Huayra the company hasn’t tried anything different. The company has extensively known as the company which is utterly different from the other automakers in the market. The most prominent model from Pagani is the Pagani Zonda, and despite its immense success and prominence the Horacio Pagani has claimed that their new car is completely different from the Pagani Zonda.

PAGANI ZONDA CINQUE

The Italian super car manufacturer who relies on Mercedes Benz for their power plants, Pagani, has just unleashed an all new roadster version of the stunning Zonda R. The new Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster, as it is known, will be a very valuable commodity, limited to only 5 units priced at 1.3 million Euro each.

Behind the driver’s head in the Pagani Cinque Roadster is a hand built twin turbocharged AMG V12 engine that makes 678 HP. That tremendous amount of power lets the rocket ship inspired vehicle to sprint to 60 MPH from a standstill in just 3.4 seconds and hit 200 km/h in under ten seconds and it won’t stop until it reaches a top speed of 217 MPH.

PAGANI ZONDA F

Twenty years, hundreds of cars, tens of thousands of miles, and out of all that, just one drive I consider perfect. There’s clearly a slice of luck involved, though I have to say that when you’re driving a Pagani Zonda C12 in the Val d’Orcia in southern Tuscany, you need only a very thin slice of luck. 

It was eight years ago and we were there with six supercars, putting together ‘The Test’ for issue 022. Late one afternoon we were convoying over to the cover shoot location, and as we reached the turning for the gravel road along which we’d have to travel to get there, everyone duly turned left off the main road, except me. I couldn’t help it, I simply had to have more of this Zonda, to scratch the itch, so I carried straight on and made a 30km loop, figuring they’d be a while setting up the shot. It was heaven; an extraordinarily beautiful and challenging road, its surface still warm from a day in the sun, and in my hands was the most involving and responsive supercar of all, considerately, tenderly wrung out. 

PAGANI ZONDA R

The box trailer tips up; planks and blocks of wood are carefully positioned to ensure a scuff-free disembarkation, and inch by glorious inch the Zonda R appears. It looks truly amazing, like an uber-posh Group C racer, its matt carbon body contrasted with gloss carbon spoilers and skirts and rose-gold centre-lock alloys. This 1.456m euros (plus local taxes) trackday toy is the answer to the question: what’s the most extreme version of the Zonda we could make, money no object? 


As ever with Pagani, inside and out, from the tip of its front splitter to the trailing edge of its vast rear wing, beneath the clamshells and even in the crannies you can’t see, the detailing is exquisite and the finish impeccable. The Zonda R looks too good to drive, and Horacio Pagani says that some owners will put them in their living rooms, end of. Not this one, though; it belongs to the factory and it’s for driving, though sadly not by us today. It was wowing the crowds at the Goodwood Festival of Speed yesterday, and before heading home to Italy has made a modest diversion up to Dunsfold Park, home of the Top Gear test track.