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Pagani Huayra: history, every version, specs and values

28 October 2026

Pagani Huayra coupé in exposed carbon fibre with black wheels and red brake callipers on a white stand, a red Ferrari sports-racer behind
A Huayra coupé in exposed carbon fibre at Grand Basel, September 2018. Photo: Ank Kumar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Pagani Huayra is the mid-engined hypercar that Pagani Automobili of San Cesario sul Panaro, near Modena, revealed in January 2011 as the successor to the Zonda. It has a carbo-titanium monocoque, active aerodynamics and a 6.0-litre twin-turbo V12 built for it by Mercedes-AMG: 730hp and 1,350kg in the first coupé, which was limited to 100 cars. More than a dozen versions have followed, from the Huayra BC and Roadster to the 900hp track-only Huayra R Evo, and the cars now sell for more than $3 million.

The name comes from Huayra Tata, an Andean god of wind. The announced production runs of all its versions add up to about 325 cars, and in 2013 a coupé lapped the BBC Top Gear test track in 1min 13.8sec, the fastest time a production car had set there.

History of the Pagani Huayra

Horacio Pagani began the concept in 2003, and the car was revealed in January 2011 "after seven years of hard work". In his own account of the project on Pagani's website, he wrote that the C9, as it was code-named, started in the year the Zonda S Roadster came out, when the Bugatti Veyron, Porsche Carrera GT, Ferrari Enzo and Mercedes SLR McLaren were raising the bar for supercars.

The C9 project, 2003 to 2010

Pagani thought the Zonda, designed in the early 1990s, was out of date, so the new car was to be different "in form, dimension, dynamics and technology". He wanted it longer than the Zonda, with a track 70mm wider and the cabin moved 40mm further back. The team worked through eight scale models, two full-size models and hundreds of drawings over five years of styling work. Pagani's theme was air, and above all wind: "a jet turbine, the silence of a glider".

The Zonda kept selling while the C9 was developed, and the track-only Zonda R, shown at Geneva in 2009, became a test bed for it. Pagani called it "a key laboratory for the Huayra", for materials, safety and engineering ideas.

The C9 test mule crash near Stuttgart

In March 2010 a C9 prototype was badly damaged during road testing in Germany. The crash, on the B14 near Stuttgart, was reported by SkiddMark from pictures supplied by GTSpirit, which showed a car that was written off. The cause was not known. At the time the C9 was expected on sale in 2011 at about £750,000, with a 6.0-litre V12 of about 700hp and a top speed of 225mph.

Blue Pagani Huayra coupé seen from the front, showing its quad headlamps, bonnet scoop and leaf-shaped mirrors
A Huayra coupé in London in February 2014. Photo: Daytonaman955, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Leaked pictures and the 2011 launch

Pagani had been releasing teaser videos for weeks when, on Friday 21 January 2011, a magazine spread showing the car leaked online, followed by an official photograph and more pages from the Spanish edition of CAR magazine. Reaction across the internet was mixed, SkiddMark reported. According to the leaked magazine text, Pagani would build up to 20 cars a year at about €1 million (then about £850,000) each, with a 690bhp Mercedes-powered V12 and a claimed 250mph.

Pagani put out its own pictures and a press release on 25 January 2011, which Autoblog translated the same day. The car was shown to guests and journalists at Pirelli's headquarters in Milan on 18 February 2011, with speakers from Pirelli and AMG, and then on stand 1151 at the Geneva Motor Show in March, as Pagani's news pages record. Its first showing in the United States was a preview at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena on 4 August 2011.

What does Huayra mean?

Huayra comes from Huayra Tata, the god of wind in the legends of the Aymara people of the Andes. Pagani's 2011 release said the god lived in the hills and valleys around Lake Titicaca and could raise the lake's waters and turn them into rain.

Sold out, and the last coupé

The coupé sold out in February 2015. GTSpirit reported that the run was limited to 100 cars under Pagani's agreement with engine supplier AMG, and that the new factory could build about 45 cars a year. Deliveries to the United States had started in the second half of 2014.

The 100th and last coupé, named L'Ultimo, was finished in 2018. Top Gear reported that it was painted after Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 car, in exposed carbon with Petronas green, and carried the parts of the Tempesta aero pack and a 789bhp engine.

The successor: Pagani Utopia

The Huayra's replacement, the Utopia, was unveiled at Italy's National Science and Technology Museum in Milan on 13 September 2022, in what Pagani's release called the third chapter in the brand's history. Huayra versions have kept coming since: the Imola Roadster, the R Evo Roadster, the Epitome, the Codalunga Speedster and the Huayra 70.

Design and engineering

The Huayra is built around a carbo-titanium monocoque with steel subframes front and rear, a mid-mounted twin-turbo V12 and rear-wheel drive. Horacio Pagani put the parts count at more than 10,000 if the engine and gearbox are counted part by part; at the Milan launch he spoke of 4,000.

Red and carbon Pagani Huayra with its gullwing doors, front clamshell and engine cover all raised on a motor show stand
A Huayra with every opening panel raised at the Geneva Motor Show, March 2013. Photo: Norbert Aepli, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Carbo-titanium monocoque

The central monocoque is made of carbo-titanium, a composite of carbon fibre and titanium, using materials and methods first tested on the Zonda R. To save weight, the pipes for the cooling and air-conditioning systems run inside the monocoque, so no separate parts are needed. The gullwing doors take in a large part of the roof. The result was a dry weight of 1,350kg, which Pagani said made the Huayra the lightest car in its segment.

Active aerodynamics

The Huayra was the first Pagani with active aerodynamics: four flaps, two at the front and two at the rear, and a front suspension that changes the ride height. Horacio Pagani said that "the whole car is shaped as a wing", so the front was made high to shorten the upper surface and counter lift. The flaps are run by their own control unit, which takes data from the ABS and engine computers. RM Sotheby's catalogue gives the drag coefficient as variable between 0.31 and 0.37.

Red Pagani Huayra driving up the Goodwood hill with its front and rear active flaps raised
The front flaps raised as a Huayra runs at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, June 2014. Photo: Nic Redhead, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Mercedes-AMG M158 twin-turbo V12

Mercedes-AMG built the M158 engine for the Huayra: a 5,980cc 60-degree V12 with two turbochargers. Pagani asked for a linear delivery with no lag, because lag could create safety problems or keep the electronic aids working all the time, and Horacio Pagani described the feeling he wanted as "the brute force of an airplane taking off". The engine met the EU5 and LEV2 emissions rules at launch. MHG-Fahrzeugtechnik made the titanium exhaust, with Inconel silencers, and the whole system weighs less than 10kg.

Engine bay of a Pagani Huayra showing gold-finished AMG V12 cam covers, carbon intake parts, a turbo pipe and yellow coil springs
The AMG V12 and rear suspension of a Huayra at the Geneva Motor Show, March 2013. Photo: Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why a single-clutch gearbox?

The power goes to the rear wheels through a seven-speed sequential gearbox, mounted across the car, with a single twin-plate clutch. Pagani's engineers rejected an oil-bath dual-clutch gearbox because it would have added more than 70kg, more than the gain from quicker shifts was worth; the whole transmission weighs 96kg. The gearbox is made by Xtrac, a British firm, and later Huayras kept the single-clutch layout.

Brakes, tyres and suspension

Pirelli developed a P Zero tyre for the car. The BC and Roadster have Brembo carbon-ceramic discs of 380mm at all four corners, with six-piston callipers at the front and four-piston at the rear, and double wishbones all round. The coupé's wishbones were already forged from Avional aluminium alloy, tested at length on the Zonda R. The BC added parts in HiForg, another forged aluminium alloy, which New Atlas reported cut the suspension's weight by 25 per cent.

Interior

The cabin is carbon fibre, leather and machined aluminium, with exposed linkage for the gear lever and round instruments set in a metal binnacle. Top Gear's Richard Hammond said that inside it "looks like a Victorian's idea of the 23rd Century. And the detail is beyond obsessive."

Interior of a Pagani Huayra with tan leather seats, a carbon and aluminium steering wheel and the exposed gear linkage
A Huayra interior at the Pagani Museum, San Cesario sul Panaro, April 2022. Photo: pelican-actor, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pagani Huayra specifications and performance

The first Huayra coupé has 730hp (544kW) at 5,800rpm and 1,000Nm from 2,600 to 4,200rpm, for a dry weight of 1,350kg split 44 per cent front and 56 per cent rear. Pagani gives its length as 4,605mm, its body width as 2,036mm (2,356mm across the mirrors) and its height as 1,169mm. The track-only Huayra R weighs 300kg less, at 1,050kg, with a naturally aspirated V12 in place of the turbocharged one.

Pagani Huayra specifications by version: engine, power, torque and dry weight (Pagani's figures)
VersionEnginePowerTorqueDry weight
Huayra coupéAMG M158 twin-turbo V12730hp at 5,800rpm1,000Nm at 2,600–4,200rpm1,350kg
Huayra BCAMG twin-turbo V12764hp at 6,200rpm1,000Nm at 4,000rpm1,218kg
Huayra RoadsterAMG twin-turbo V12764hp at 5,500rpm1,000Nm at 2,300–4,300rpm1,280kg
Huayra Roadster BCPagani V12, twin-turbo, built by AMG590kW (802hp) at 5,900rpm1,050Nm at 2,000–5,600rpm1,250kg
ImolaAMG twin-turbo V12827hp1,100Nm1,246kg
Huayra TricolorePagani V12, twin-turbo, built by AMG840hp at 5,900rpm1,100Nm at 2,000–5,600rpm1,270kg
Huayra R (track only)Pagani V12-R, naturally aspirated, designed with HWA850hp at 8,250rpm750Nm at 5,500–8,300rpm1,050kg
Huayra CodalungaPagani V12, twin-turbo840hp at 5,900rpm1,100Nm at 2,000–5,600rpm1,280kg
Imola RoadsterPagani V12, twin-turbo, built by AMG850hp at 5,600rpm1,100Nm at 3,600–5,600rpm1,260kg
Huayra R Evo Roadster (track only)Pagani V12-R Evo, naturally aspirated900hp at 8,750rpm770Nm at 5,800–8,200rpm1,060kg
Huayra EpitomePagani V12, twin-turbo, built by AMG864hp at 6,000rpm1,100Nmnot published
Huayra Codalunga SpeedsterPagani V12, twin-turbo, developed with AMG864hp at 6,000rpm1,100Nm from 2,800rpm1,270kg

Source: each model's page and launch release on pagani.com, read October 2026. Pagani quotes power in metric horsepower (CV); the Roadster BC is given in kilowatts only.

How fast is the Pagani Huayra?

Pagani's own pages give no acceleration or top speed for the original coupé. At launch the company claimed a top speed of more than 230mph, Fox News reported in January 2011, and GTSpirit gave 0–60mph in 3.2 seconds and 230mph (370km/h) in 2015. For the later road cars Pagani quotes 350km/h (217mph), electronically limited, for the Imola Roadster and the Codalunga Speedster, and 350km/h for the track-only R Evo Roadster.

The Top Gear lap record

On BBC Top Gear in 2013 the Stig lapped the show's test track in 1min 13.8sec in a Huayra on Pirelli P Zero Corsa tyres, the fastest time a production car had set there. Pagani's announcement pointed out that this was only three seconds slower than the track-only Zonda R. Hammond's verdict on the programme was "do it, do it, do it!"

Fuel consumption

The US Environmental Protection Agency rates the 2016 Huayra coupé at 11mpg in town, 17mpg on the highway and 13mpg combined (US gallons), on premium petrol, in its fueleconomy.gov listing. That is about 16mpg combined in imperial gallons.

Every Pagani Huayra version

Pagani has built the Huayra as a coupé, a roadster, lighter BC versions of each, two track-only R cars and a string of small series and one-offs.

Huayra BC

The BC, shown at Geneva in March 2016, was named after Benny Caiola, Pagani's first customer, to whom Horacio Pagani dedicated it "from my heart", according to the BC's page on Pagani's website. Pagani built it for track days as well as the road, after the Zonda R and Zonda Cinque. Top Gear drove a prototype in Sicily and reported a new Xtrac gearbox that halved shift times from 150 to 75 milliseconds, a 2.9kg titanium exhaust that was 7.1kg lighter than the standard one, aerodynamics worked out with Dallara, and a new carbon fibre Pagani said was 50 per cent lighter and 20 per cent stronger. In all the BC is 132kg lighter than the coupé. Top Gear gave its engine as 789bhp; Pagani's model page now lists 764hp.

Green Pagani Huayra BC with a large rear wing, carbon front splitter and gold-edged black wheels, parked on grass
A 2017 Huayra BC in Verde McLaren at the Greenwich concours, Connecticut. Photo: Mr.choppers, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In 2021 Pagani added the Pacchetto Tempesta for the BC: a new splitter and air intake, a rear wing with a central fin, a six-pipe exhaust, new suspension and a "Soft Driving" mode. Pagani's release for the Huayra's tenth anniversary gave it 827hp and 1,100Nm, an increase of more than 8 per cent.

Huayra Roadster

The Roadster was revealed in February 2017 and shown at Geneva that March. Work had started in 2010 on a coupé with a removable roof panel, but the design was thrown out in 2013 and started again from a clean sheet, as Goodwood reported at the reveal. The Roadster has conventional doors, a removable roof of carbon and glass and a fabric cover for emergencies. Its monocoque is 52 per cent stiffer than the coupé's, and at 1,280kg it is lighter: "the first, from a technical point of view, was to make a roadster that would be lighter than the coupé," Horacio Pagani said of his targets on the Roadster's page, calling it "the most complicated project we have ever undertaken".

Blue-grey Pagani Huayra Roadster with its roof removed and white pinstripes, on a motor show stand
A Huayra Roadster at the Geneva International Motor Show, March 2019. Photo: Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Huayra Roadster BC

The Roadster BC was revealed on 31 July 2019 and shown in public at Monterey Car Week that August, two years after a customer's request started it. Pagani's launch details give a new Pagani V12, built by AMG, with more than 800hp and 1,050Nm from 2,000rpm, a dry weight of 1,250kg and a downforce target of 500kg at 280km/h (174mph). Its titanium exhaust has two extra outlets from the catalytic converters that blow the diffuser for more downforce, a first for Pagani. In September 2020 the car lapped Spa-Francorchamps in 2min 23.081sec in damp conditions, which Pagani called a record for road cars homologated worldwide. In 2022 Horacio Pagani won the Compasso d'Oro, Italy's oldest design award, for the Roadster BC in the "Design for mobility" category.

Silver and carbon Pagani Huayra Roadster BC with red trim and a fixed rear wing, displayed on a lawn
The Roadster BC on the lawn at Monterey Car Week, August 2019. Photo: Bryan S, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pagani Imola

The Imola, revealed in February 2020, is a road car named after the circuit where it covered more than 16,000km at racing speed, which Pagani likened to three Le Mans 24 Hours. It has 827hp, a large fixed rear wing, diffuser and fin, and a dry weight of 1,246kg. Five were built, and Top Gear reported that each owner paid €5 million plus taxes. Even its paint, called Acquarello Light, saves 5kg. "We can't say that it's an elegant car," Horacio Pagani said.

Dark carbon Pagani Imola with orange trim and a large rear wing, parked on an Alpine pass road
A Pagani Imola on an Alpine pass, August 2019. Photo: aguswiss1, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Huayra Tricolore

The Tricolore, revealed on 16 December 2020, marks the 60th anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori, the Italian Air Force's display team. Pagani had done the same in 2010 with the Zonda Tricolore. Pagani limits it to three cars, each numbered after one of the team's three leading aircraft, at €5.5 million plus VAT each, with 840hp and a tri-disc clutch 4kg lighter than the previous two-disc unit.

Huayra R

The Huayra R, revealed on 18 March 2021, is a track-only car and the successor to the Zonda R. It has a naturally aspirated 6.0-litre V12 of its own, the V12-R, designed from the ground up with HWA, and a six-speed sequential gearbox. Pagani limits it to 30 cars at a base price of €2.6 million plus tax. Owners drive them at Pagani's Arte in Pista track events, with Pagani's engineers, mechanics and professional driving coaches.

Pagani Huayra R track car in matte exposed carbon with silver and yellow trim, in a showroom
Huayra R number 23 of 30, in matte exposed carbon, June 2024. Photo: Mr.choppers, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Huayra R Evo Roadster

The R Evo Roadster, revealed on 8 February 2024, is a longer, open version of the Huayra R for the Arte in Pista owners. Horacio Pagani said the idea came to him at an IndyCar race in Nashville, watching the cars' Aeroscreens. Pagani gives the V12-R Evo 900hp at 8,750rpm and a 9,200rpm limit; the tail is 190mm longer and the splitter 101mm longer, for 45 per cent more downforce. At 320km/h (199mph), in its lowered set-up, it makes more downforce than it weighs, and Pagani says it can match the pace of current LMP2 racing cars. Pagani has not said how many it will build.

Huayra Codalunga

The Codalunga ("long tail") was revealed on 16 June 2022 and shown in public at the Goodwood Festival of Speed that month. Two collectors asked for a long-tail Huayra in 2018, and the styling took two years with the customers. Pagani limits it to five cars, all sold before the reveal, at prices from €7 million, with 840hp and a 4.4kg titanium exhaust. Pagani says it won the design award at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este in 2023.

Pale blue Pagani Huayra Codalunga with twin round headlamps and gold wheels, driving slowly through the Goodwood paddock
The Huayra Codalunga at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, June 2022. Photo: MrWalkr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Imola Roadster

The Imola Roadster, revealed on 23 November 2023, is an open version of the Imola with styling taken from the Huayra R and Roadster BC. Pagani limits it to eight cars, homologated worldwide, with 850hp and a dry weight of 1,260kg, 14kg more than the coupé. It was first shown in public at Goodwood in July 2024.

Huayra Codalunga Speedster

The Codalunga Speedster, revealed on 8 July 2025, is an open Codalunga with a new monocoque, lower windscreen and side windows, conventional doors and a hard top with a clear polycarbonate section. Pagani limits it to ten cars, with deliveries from 2026, and offers its seven-speed Xtrac gearbox as an automated manual or a manual. Each embroidered piece of its seat fabric has more than 450,000 stitches done by hand.

One-offs and few-offs

Pagani has also built Huayras to single customers' designs, the later ones through Grandi Complicazioni.

Huayra Lampo

The Lampo of December 2017 is a coupé finished by Lapo Elkann's Garage Italia Customs in the colours of the 1954 Fiat Turbina, a gas-turbine concept car, Top Gear reported.

Huayra NC

The NC is a one-off coupé built by Pagani's special projects team with changes to the structure, bodywork and mechanicals, and was shown in Milan in June 2022, according to Pagani's release for the Milano Monza Motor Show.

Huayra Epitome

The Epitome, revealed on 2 July 2024 and shown at Goodwood that month, was the first Huayra with a manual gearbox. Pagani gives it 864hp, a rev limit raised to 6,700rpm, new bumpers and a wing built into the rear deck.

Blue carbon Pagani Huayra Epitome with gold-ringed headlamps and gold wheels on a display plinth
The one-off Huayra Epitome at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, July 2024. Photo: MrWalkr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Huayra 70

Three Huayra 70s mark Horacio Pagani's 70th birthday. The first, the Huayra 70 Trionfo, appeared in January 2026, when Motor1 reported that only its doors and window frames are carried over from the Huayra and that, by its owner's account, it has 834hp and a seven-speed manual. The second, the Huayra 70 Derecho in Pearl Orange and blue, made its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July 2026, Pagani announced.

How many Pagani Huayras were made?

Pagani built 100 Huayra coupés and 100 Huayra Roadsters, and the limited series after them add about 125 more announced cars. Pagani publishes a number for every series except the BC and the R Evo Roadster; Top Gear reported in 2016 that all 20 BCs were sold. Goodwood counted fewer than 500 Paganis of all models built since 1999 when it reported the 2024 Festival of Speed.

Pagani Huayra production and prices new
VersionRevealedNumber built or plannedPrice new
Huayra coupéJanuary 2011100about €1 million (2011 reports); $1.4 million in the US
Huayra BCFebruary 201620 announced€2.3 million
Huayra RoadsterFebruary 2017100€2.28 million plus VAT
Huayra Roadster BCJuly 201940€3,085,000 plus VAT
ImolaFebruary 20205€5 million plus taxes
Huayra TricoloreDecember 20203€5.5 million plus VAT
Huayra RMarch 202130€2.6 million plus tax
Huayra CodalungaJune 20225from €7 million
Imola RoadsterNovember 20238not published
Huayra R Evo RoadsterFebruary 2024not publishednot published
Huayra EpitomeJuly 20241not published
Huayra Codalunga SpeedsterJuly 202510not published
Huayra 70January 20263not published

Sources: Pagani's releases and model pages for each series; GTSpirit (2015) for the coupé run; Top Gear for the BC (2016) and Imola (2020); CAR (2017) for the Roadster's price; SkiddMark (2011) and Fox News (2011) for the coupé's price. The total of about 325 is the sum of the announced runs; the Lampo, L'Ultimo and NC are counted within the 100 coupés.

Silver and black carbon Pagani Huayra L
L'Ultimo, the 100th and last Huayra coupé, at Monterey Car Week in August 2018. Photo: Bryan S, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pagani Huayra price and values

A Huayra coupé cost about €1 million new in 2011, and the best now sell for more than $3 million at auction.

How much did a Pagani Huayra cost new?

The magazine pages leaked in January 2011 gave about €1 million, and Fox News quoted $1.4 million for the US. Top Gear put the British price at around £800,000 when its magazine named the Huayra its Hypercar of the Year, which it said in 2018 was more than three times the price of a Lamborghini Aventador. Options add to that: the Roadster sold in 2026 had a window-sticker price of €2,604,110 against a base of €2.28 million.

How much is a Pagani Huayra worth today?

Three public auction results show where values have gone:

Owning a Pagani Huayra

A Huayra is serviced by Pagani's own dealers and workshops. In Britain that means Pagani of Manchester at Wilmslow in Cheshire, opened with the Sytner Group in June 2023, according to Pagani's release, which says the first Pagani was delivered in the UK almost 25 years earlier.

Recalls

The US safety agency NHTSA lists two recalls for the Huayra. In 2016 Pagani recalled model-year 2014–2016 coupés built between 21 April 2014 and 29 July 2016 because the driver's airbag might not stay secured to the steering wheel when it went off; dealers changed the fasteners (campaign 16V588000). In 2018 it recalled every 2017 Huayra BC and Roadster because the battery management software might leave too little power to start the car or keep it idling; dealers replaced the battery (campaign 18V175000).

Servicing and certification

Since October 2020 Pagani has offered L.E.O. ("Learn, Evaluate, Operate"), a control unit that sends a car's data to Pagani for remote diagnosis and predictive maintenance, with an app for owners, Pagani announced. Its Rinascimento programme restores older cars, and Pagani Puro, launched in December 2021, certifies that a car is authentic, according to Pagani. Top Gear noted one built-in precaution on the BC: if the temperature drops below nine degrees, the electronic aids switch back on even if the driver has turned them off.

Pagani Huayra vs the Lamborghini Aventador and other hypercars

The Huayra's nearest new rival in 2011 was the Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4. The Aventador has a 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12 with 700hp and 690Nm, four-wheel drive and a dry weight of 1,575kg, according to Lamborghini's technical specification. The Huayra has 30hp more, 310Nm more torque and 225kg less weight, and drives only its rear wheels.

When Horacio Pagani began the C9 in 2003, the cars he measured it against were the Bugatti Veyron, Porsche Carrera GT, Ferrari Enzo and Mercedes SLR McLaren. A decade later McLaren and Ferrari had moved to hybrid flagships, the McLaren P1 and LaFerrari; Pagani considered doing the same for the BC but chose to cut weight instead, New Atlas reported in February 2016.

Reviews and awards

The Huayra won three of Europe's main car-of-the-year awards in 2012: Top Gear magazine's Hypercar of the Year, CAR magazine's Performance Car of the Year and evo's Car of the Year, as Pagani recorded in its news pages. For Top Gear, Hammond said "there was only ever one contender". CAR called it "mesmerically good: monster engine, mad drama, yet it rides well and is easy to drive". evo wrote that "the Huayra will make you feel insanely good about life".

Top Gear's first drive of the BC found it more supple than expected, with sharper steering than the coupé and "brutal" performance. Its one reservation was the turbocharged engine's noise, "complete with twittering turbos", after the unblown V12 of the Zonda. The magazine explained that AMG had promised Pagani emissions-compliant V12s until 2023, and that the price of that supply, and of selling in the United States, was turbocharging.

Questions

Where is the Pagani Huayra built?

Every Huayra is built by hand by Pagani Automobili at San Cesario sul Panaro, near Modena in Italy. Its V12 engines come from Mercedes-AMG in Germany, apart from the naturally aspirated V12-R of the track-only Huayra R, which Pagani designed with HWA.

Is the Pagani Huayra road legal?

Yes. The coupé was the first Pagani homologated for sale worldwide, including the United States. The Huayra R and Huayra R Evo Roadster are the exceptions: they are track-only cars for Pagani's Arte in Pista events.

Does any Pagani Huayra have a manual gearbox?

The one-off Huayra Epitome of 2024 was the first, with a seven-speed manual made by Xtrac. The Huayra Codalunga Speedster of 2025 offers the same choice, and the Huayra 70 Trionfo has one too, by its owner's account. The series-built Huayras have a seven-speed automated manual or, on the R cars, a six-speed sequential.

How much horsepower does a Pagani Huayra have?

The original coupé has 730hp. Later road versions range from 764hp (BC and Roadster) to 864hp (Epitome and Codalunga Speedster), and the track-only Huayra R Evo Roadster has 900hp, the most of any Pagani.

What does BC stand for in Huayra BC?

BC is the initials of Benny Caiola, the American collector who was Pagani's first customer and a friend of Horacio Pagani. Top Gear noted that the United States, Caiola's home, had become Pagani's biggest market by the time the BC was revealed in 2016.

How much does a Pagani Huayra R cost?

Pagani announced the Huayra R in March 2021 at a base price of €2.6 million plus tax, for 30 cars. Owners take part in Pagani's Arte in Pista track programme, with the factory's engineers and mechanics at each event.

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