The Pagani Wire-ra (Huayra) story

http://www.wimp.com/paganihuayra/

It begins slowly and just as you begin to believe this might be a puff piece they begin throwing the most wonderous information and pictures at you. The further in you get the better the story and the automotive porn.

The intangible portion of the storyline sounds a lot like Mazda and their soul of the wind & other such nonsense, but the tangibles are enough to give real carguys a titanium hard on.

It's an almost 15 minute video and you need to see it all. For those of you who only read headlines and want a cliffnotes version after a paragraph, just move right along. This is not for you - and you'll be poorer for it.

Pagani is modern coachwork; the sophisticated supercar. Ferrari and Lamborghini almost appear garish and mass-produced by comparison.

Automotive Pornography is an insult. That is beyond porn, that's Automotive Erotic Art.

Love it.

Worth the watch.
About as far from grassroots as you can get...
but fully worth the watch.

I normally don't want supercars...but I want one of those. The guy welding the exhaust system probably has the coolest job in the world...except for the guy assembling that ridiculous engine.

I haven't watched the video. However, I just saw a Top Gear that talked about this car before it was released and I really liked how Clarkson pronounced Huayra

Cool video. I would have a Koenigsegg instead.

The active flap system on the car looked very imaginative and drove my lust level even higher. I'm normally not one for gadgets, but that looked very cool and effective. Although I'm not exactly sure the duties of the front ones, even with the video showing one activating.

carguy123 wrote: The active fap system on the car looked very imaginative and drove my lust level even higher. I'm normally not one for gadgets, but that looked very cool and effective. Although I'm not exactly sure the duties of the front ones, even with the video showing one activating.

Fixed for more funny.

That was an excellent production! The emblem being machined out of a block of alloy blew my mind.

Mitchell wrote: Pagani is modern coachwork; the sophisticated supercar. Ferrari and Lamborghini almost appear garish and mass-produced by comparison.

Funny, "garish" is how I've always found Pagani. For all the technical wonderment, I find them too ornately detailed. There's no simplicity anywhere.

Every piece of aluminum is machined? I guess casting is too mechanical, not organic enough Seriously, milling an emblem or an intake manifold is just wanking. There's no reason for it other than being able to make a video like this.

Awesome cars for sure. But there's a certain element of trying just a bit too hard. I love that jig for the exhaust system though. Beautifully done.

The Huayra and Aston One-77 were parked together in the supercar paddock at Goodwood last summer. Both had the lids open - and the craftsmanship, attention to detail, and cost-is-no-object material choices were overwhelming. The other supercars parked nearby just seemed ordinary by comparison. For a few lucky billionaires, they really do justify their million-dollar price tags.

Finally know how to pronounce the name!

HIDGolf wrote: Finally know how to pronounce the name!

Yes, it took me starting the vid over twice to be sure I'd gotten it. It seems that everytime they said it there was extraneous noise on the vid or else they got extra quiet on the last syllable. And then I took a shot on my phonetic spelling.

93EXCivic wrote: Cool video. I would have a Koenigsegg instead.

Plus Juan!

That was wonderful, sigh.

Had to come back and watch it again.

SOHC?

Is that a dedicated cooling fan for your gentlemen's accessories? SOLD!

lol - it's a seat adjustment knob:

And the engine is a bespoke AMG-built V12. When's the last time AMG built anything SOHC?

I can't decide if that interior is most awesome or worst interior I have ever seen...

The styling is a bit over the top, yes, but the materials are seriously luxe in person. Machined metals look like fine jewelry and the carbon fibre weave pattern is matched wherever components meet. It makes the Gallardo & Murcielago interiors look like they belong in a kit car.

nderwater wrote: lol - it's a seat adjustment knob:

Uh, no, officer, I was only adjusting my seat, I swear!

I'd be afraid I'd accidentally adjust my seat if a pretty girl walked by.

Dang it, you made me watch it again too. I really, really appreciate quality. I don't care if I could have cast some of that cheaper I love the fact that it was machined out of a solid block of metal.