It features a twin-turbo Mercedes AMG V-12 engine that throws out 539kw with a top speed of 372km/h. 0-100 comes up in a lightning fast 3.3 seconds.... what makes this car incredible is not only the power it packs but the design. The attention to detail featured is unbelievable, take for example the rims that take 5 days to be made out of titanium blocks and the gear shifter that is made out of 67 different moving parts. Every single nut and bolt is made out of titanium.
Some may see this as obsessive but it puts the car into a league of its own. As Richard Hammond from Top Gear said, the Huayra has something that its rivals Ferrari and Lamborghini have lost...innocence. Pagani has no corporate culture, they want to make pinup poster super cars... and they have! They are not interested in the branded teddy bears... they are where their rivals were 30 years ago. This is a car that is a pure sports car, the attention to detail might not make sense but it gives the car a character that the Lamborghini's of years ago possessed.
To me this is the future of the Lamborghini's i dreamt of owning 20 years ago... it is a car that is really a 'dream car'. It would be very hard to fault such a masterpiece, and i can see why it was named "The Hypercar of the year 2012" by Top Gear magazine. It was also the fastest road-legal street car to go around the Top Gear test track, but with a price tag of $1,300,000 it is placed at the very top of my dream car list.
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