New Pagani Huayra official info

[alx]

Really dislike the front/nose, looks horrible!

 

[Clarkey]

The front is ugly as hell, the rest is pretty awesome though. I love the fact that they've put out a car that's ridiculously low to the extent that it will be almost undrivable

 

[NVP]

Received my sisters subscription to Top Gear this morning which still comes to our house, it came with a "letter" saying it was delayed due to Pagani not wanting pictures/information published any earlier and that the pictures and information contained within were exclusively for Top Gear.

It's a fascinating read actually, the car itself looks absolutely beautiful in these pictures but what is more incredible is how the car has been designed and created as one single, delicate, beautiful piece of engineering. It describes how the car is completely different than the Zonda and how Horacio Pagani started working on the Huayra ("h-wire-a" apparently) in 2003. I definitely suggest you give it a read if you are interested.

A few quotes (from the exclusive Top Gear article) and pictures (shamelessly stolen from the EVO website) to draw you in:

The Engine looks & is amazing:

Beneath a pair of golden finned intercooler covers and carbo-fibre intake boxes, there lives and breathes a brand new 6.0-litre AMG V12 making 730bhp, and a mountainous 811lb ft of torque. All this to propel a car of just 1,350kg. [...] the same torque-to-weight ratio as a Veyron, Veyron Super Sport, that is.

He wanted everything to be built perfect & without compromise, there are some pictures in the magazine which show how absolutely beautiful some of the main instruments and interior components look:

he insisted every single component would look good enough to be mounted in a case in a museum. [...] the instrument faces: he says he could have got them made by normal automotive suppliers for a tenner, but instead he commissioned Swiss watchmakers, at about £2,000 a car.

It is definitely and obviously a Pagani but apparently not at all like a Zonda:

...it carries on a line from the Zonda. But it is absolutely not an updated Zonda, it's an all-new car: tub, engine, gearbox, transmission...

More build quotes:

The tub is made [like the Zonda R] from Pagani's exclusive carbon-titanium.

AMG's engine code is M158, a number unique to Pagani. While the base block is a borrow from the Maybach S engine, the M158 has its own dry sump, its own top end, turbos, intake, heads, and exhausts.

The transmission is completely bespoke: a seven-speed paddleshift unit from one of the best race suppliers, Xtrac. The same people who made the Zonda R box, but this one is different. It was OK for the R to drop-kick you when shifting, but this one has to be able to be gentle too. [...] Why no twin-clutch? Because it would be 60kg heavier, Horacio says. It's certainly not a cost saving measure. "I could buy a very good V8 engine for the price of this gearbox," he shrugs.

...air for the Brembo carbon brakes is ducted through these intercooler rads - which means not only is it cooled in hot weather, but in cold air it's warmed...

Here is the very interesting bit, covered in much more detail in the article:

The base drag coefficient is just 0.33, but there's one very special trick that means that figure vaires. The car has a set of four individually computer-controlled flaps on its upper surfaces, which allow the downforce of each corner to be controlled.

Which you can see in this aerial pic:

They don't know actual 0-60 figures yet:

Horacio admits the 0-60 won't be record-breaking, because from a standstill all that torque will make a mockery of the two driven tyres. Maybe that's why Bosch has been working on the traction control and ESP since 2007 and hasn't given the prototype back yet.

Quite surprisingly for a 6ltr V12:

The engine is efficient as well as brutal. It can meet clean-air requirements all around the world, so this is the first Pagani to be properly sold in America.

(CO2 = 300g/km & 23.5mpg)


Another small insight into how the car was built as "one entity":

...creative thinking keeps everything light [...] the air vents are plumbed through the structure of the car. [...] If he just had an aircon engineer working away in a seperate cubical, the climate unit would have been dropped into the car as an isolated system.

There are a lot more build and performance facts about the car in the article and it is very interesting to read, especially about the four separate "aero flaps", but you could just wait for more information to start surfacing around the net and wait for Evo to write a proper, more in depth review.