Here’s probably why we won’t be seeing any of the old time greats remade just the way they are. Safety regulations requires cars to be modeled to make them safe and patch the ozone layer. Never mind if the car can actually go full beans at Mach 3.
Poor those rich American bastards who are all waiting to get their first-world mitts on Pagani’s latest creation – the Huayra. Even if it’s going to be a handful for them to pronounce the name, who wouldn’t want some 700 hp monster in their lives?
The folks over at the US NHTSA denied Pagani’s application to allow them to sell the Huayra at its current model even without the advanced airbags which are required for children safety.
Come on. It’s not like the Huayra’s going to be used by family men to ferry around their wee spawns. Great thing we don’t have such regulations just yet. Not when parents can still just sit babies on their laps while driving scooters. Now only if we get paychecks that would allow the rest of us to buy Paganis.
Just a refresher, the Huayra replaces the Zonda in the Pagani line up. The car packs a twin-turbo 8.0L V12 that dishes out 700 bhp and 644 lb-ft of torque. It has a carbon-titanium body (“tit-bon” according to James May) and it can go all the way to 230 mph and sprint from standstill to 100 kph in just 3.3 seconds.