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The Pagani Huayra has reached the end of its product life cycle after seven years and 99 units. The last unit is a one-off named L’Ultimo. According duPont Registry, the car was specially built for Brett David, CEO of Pagani’s Miami dealer Prestige Imports. With inputs from David, the car took around eight months to develop and is likely to be ready for delivery in June. Compared to the 'normal' coupe, this special edition unit sports a larger front lip spoiler and a fixed rear wing. It also wears a silver and green livery in a tribute to the successful Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 car. Elsewhere, the car still uses the same 6.0-litre turbocharged Mercedes-AMG V12 that produces 720bhp and 1,000Nm of torque. Power is channel to the rear wheels via a seven-speed Xtrac sequential automated manual transmission. Meanwhile, for those who have the cash to get a Pagani, fret not as the Huayra Roadster's and the Huayra BC's production run is still active.

Horacio Pagani, Pagani's boss/founder, visited Beijing’s Forbidden City, when eyes fell upon the ‘Nine Dragons Wall’. So enamoured was he by the dragon body shape that he saw, he returned back to Italy and got to work. He began drawing. He ended up with sketches on a piece of paper; sketches of a dancing dragon across the sides of the Huayra supercar’s body. And thus, we come to the limited edition Pagani Huayra Dinastia. Only three of these special Huayra models exist, because the way the number three is pronounced in Chinese sounds like sheng (the meaning of ‘life, new birth’). The first is a blue carbon Huayra, the second in purple and the third gold (we don’t have pics of that, because it’s a private car). You’ll spot the dragon emblem on the fin, which sits on that purple carbon background with gold wheels. It’s only a trim special, and Pagani tells us all three are mechanically identical to the ‘standard’ Pagani Huayra – if such a thing can be called standard. Which means you’ll find a turbocharged, 6.0-litre, Mercedes-AMG V12 in the middle, producing a hearty 700bhp and 738lb ft of torque, allied to a 0-62mph time of less than 3.5 seconds and a top speed in excess of 230mph. Plenty to keep you occupied, then. So, which colour combo takes your fancy, or would you rather just ogle the hardcore Pagani Huayra BC instead?

For the supercar fans, 2016 is starting to sound like an exciting year alreday. Pagani has just relased a teaser image of its upcoming model. Not much is known about the hardcore Pagani Huayra but rumors on the net suggests that it could be called the Huayra S. Other than a towering, fixed carbon fiber wing and a much more aggressive rear diffuser, a set of new twin seven spoke wheels feature. Again, news from around the net claims that the car will also get an equally mean front splitter that will match the rear diffuser. It is said that the new car will just be limited to 20 units and only existing Huayra owners can purchase it.

Seems like all 20 units of the hardcore Huyara have been snapped up before its official debt at the upcoming Geneva show. Reported by Prototypezero, each unit starts from roughly around S$3.9million and is named after Benny Cayola (BC), one of the first Pagani customers and a friend of Horacio Pagani himself. The new car is expected to have more than 800bhp and weigh around 150kg less than the normal Huyara. Key changes to the car include a redesigned front bumper and splitter, new bonnet, more vents and heat extractors around, and of course, the large carbon rear spoiler. The wing is said to help generate 500kg worth of downforce at 250km/h. More details of the car will come soon when the car is revealed on 1st of March.

Pagani, that Italian automotive company that only recently burst into the supercar market has officially revealed the Huarya. The Pagani Zonda replacement's photos were released as a result of press leaks and ahead of its official unveiling at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show. And what I cam say is that it shares the same silhouette as the outgoing Zonda with the exception of a blunt front end (whereas the Zonda was low and swoopy) and those nicely hinged gull-winged doors which the Zonda does not have. I suppose Pagani had to add those doors to improve the Huayra's 'wow' factor. This is certainly due to that bluff front end. The old Zonda looked perfectly proportioned, like a fabulous Group C racer with that short, low front end and that longish read end dominated by the space requirement of that AMG 7.3liter (in the more powerful Zonda variants). This Huayra, while named after the a god of wind lacks the delicacy of the older car. But Pagani wants us to know that this new car was designed with aerodynamics at the forefront. The front end adds cooling and the whole car has four aero flaps that is adjustable to improve downforce at speed. At least it retains the unique looking four exhaust tip setup from the Zonda which I totally love. Inside, the Huayra improves on the Zonda instead of taking a step backwards like the exterior. The leather, wood and aluminum trimming looks fabulous. It somehow manages to blend all of this into a cohesively beautiful package that somehow works. This is one of the reason why Pagani succeeded in breaking into the high end super car market. It has such a fabulous interior that outdoes most supercars (Ferrari and Lamborghini included) but it is not garish or too outrageous. And this new cabin adds bluetooth and touch screen entertainment for the driver (and passenger) to 'play' with. The Zonda weighed about 1,300kgs, which is light for a full borne supercar. The god of the wind however weighs about 120kgs heavier. This is I believe due to the fact that the car has added safety and comfort features as well as being totally homologated to meet the tight US automotive requirements. This is in spite of having a full carbon fiber monocoque tub, carbon ceramic brakes and lots of carbon fiber bits and pieces. The engine is still an AMG sourced one but this time it is a newly developed 6.0liter twin turbocharged V12 (instead of the earlier 6.0, 7.0 or the final 7.3liter V12 unit) that pumps out around 700bhp and 1000Nm of torque. All that power runs through an XTRAC seven speed sequential transmission mounted transversely behind the engine, much like the Zonda (hence the long rear deck). While no performance figures have been published, it is expected to get to 100km/h from rest in about 3.3 or so seconds and should max out at around 370km/h or 230mph. Car prices for the Huayra is expected to be in the region of 1 million Euro and production is scheduled to begin sometime in the middle of this year. Expect a Huayra landing on the island of Singapore by the end of the year or even earlier. The reason I mentioned this is that one of Pagani's largest markets for their Zondas is Singapore, with around 22 sold and delivered to various lucky individuals over here since it was launched in 1999. If you think that isn't that many you have to take into account that Pagani has only made about 117 or so Zondas since 1999. So will the Huayra's looks make it less popular than the Zonda over here? I wouldn't know. We'll have to wait for test reports to come out and see if it really takes the Zonda to the cleaners or not.

The Pagani Huayra is one of the highly anticipated cars this year. The successor to the highly successful Zonda, the Huayra has large shoes to fill, and it didn't disappoint. Honestly I am not sold on the styling. Though the car looks absolutely fabulous in red and I highly think it should have been the launch colour instead of the metallic silverish colour, the front facia doesn't attract me like the Zonda did. Things that I like are the active aerodynamics flaps that reminds me of airplanes, the side mirrors that were inspired by the eye of a female and the rear with the iconic 4 central exhausts. I like the the gullwing doors which is refreshing compared to the usual Lamborghini scissor doors or the McLaren butterfly doors. The interior looks avant-garde yet flashy and loud and reminds me alot of Dutch supercar Spyker. The one thing I can't comment is the performance, well because neither have I nor my colleagues at SGcarmart have driven one, though given the opportunity we would love to. I have been spending some time on the web reading and watching reviews of the Huayra and though of sharing 2 videos that caught my interest. One is from the self confessed Petrol Head Jay Leno and its has Horacio Pagani himself in the video to explain the car. The second reviews comes from a guy named Chris Harris from the Drive network who shares his honest experience with the Huayra, more of a video blog style, including his initial frustrations at the Italian airport. Jay Leno Chris Harris

Pagani unveiled last year its new model, the strangely called Huayra. As we expect from Pagani, the car is extremely well conceived and also sounds beautifully. Here is a quick video of a Pagani Huayra at the Pagani factory and on the road. Can you feel the roar of the Pagani Huayra?