Originally slated for first-ogling at March’s Geneva Motor Show, Pagani shared its new Huayra Roadster with the world a month early, which keeps in with the Italian supercar tradition of if you’ve got it, flaunt it.
As with the hardtop, the Huayra ‘vert uses a carbotanium monocoque but comes with a removable glass targa top and some performance improvements made on the molto speciale Huayra BC. That means the roadster keeps the coupe’s seven-speed sequential gearbox and the 6.0-liter twin-turbo V12 from AMG, but receives a bump in output to 754 horsepower and 738 ft-lb of torque.
Ludicrous numbers are made even more ridiculous when you read the glass-top model is 80 kilograms lighter than the coupe, a car that clears zero to 60 mph in 2.8 seconds already.
“From the beginning we set for ourselves some rather ambitious targets. The first, from a technical point of view, was to make a Roadster that would be lighter than the Coupé, which was already the lightest hypercar on sale at the time,” said company CEO Horacio Pagani in the announcement.
Updated suspension components are where much the weight saving takes place. Pagani uses an in-house lightweight aluminum alloy it calls “HiForg” and claims it reduces the heft of an individual piece by 25 percent. The result is a super-stuff 2,822 pound road car with over 750 horsepower. We live in truly wonderful times.
There are also loads of new active aerodynamics to help keep the car planted at high and low speeds. Pagani says the new roadster will be capable of the same 1.8 lateral G-force as the BC when outfitted with the correct set of tires. However, we dare guess few people who buy one of these $2,410,815 automobiles will ever approach those gravitational limits.
[Images: Pagani Automobili]
It’ll be a great option once depreciation hits and the price falls to $100,000.
I’ll need a bumper to bumper CarMax warranty tho…..
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Who wouldn’t rather have a perfect ’63 T-Bird roadster with the tonneau cover?
OldMan, I’m with you. One speed bump, pothole or curb and that Pagani’s front end is toast.
Takes me back to my recurrent wish to dump a boxful of bocce balls in a supercar’s path.
Is “neither” an option? No desire for this hypercar or some old American iron. Give me a newer Boxster or 911 over either. Or I’ll just keep the sports car I’ve got.
You’re young; go away.
Youth is wasted on the hung.
Wait…
It brightens my day to know that cars like this exist even though I’ll never be able to afford one.
That back end looks odd. Are tail fins making a come back?
Super car -> hyper car -> Uber car?
To the elderly, that is reminiscent of the flared-up rear fender end of the 60’s Schwinn Stingray.
And the dude with the Tesla next to him at the stoplight will still likely be able to keep up with him. Granted, top end and acceleration beyond 60 MPH are likely to be another story all together…
Million-dollar-and-up cars should have bespoke propulsion; nothing exclusive about a tuner Benz motor in this stratosphere.
For those of you wanting to keep track, $2,410,815 and 2,822 lbs comes to $854.29 per lb. Maybe that carbotanium should have been carbunobtainium.
Who doesn’t dream of going 200mph along a bumpy, twisty road. In a vehicle held up by suspension made of some seemingly hard enough looking slush of aluminum and other detrius, mixed up by one of the 4 guys at an “automaker” who, due to it’s dependence on exclusivity to move metal, is unlikely to have build even as much as a single prototype to destruction test it in?
They have to be crash-tested to be approved for sale in certain markets like the US and both Pagani and Koenigsegg have crash-teseted some of their models. Because they’re built out of carbon fiber, they’re able to repair the crash-tested cars back to factory spec, and use them as factory cars, for R&D and press drives.
carbotanium? Really??? Is it low carbotanium?
Sounds like bsotanium. What a joke.