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Born in 1992 from the ambitions of a single man, Pagani Automobili is about to write a new chapter with the Huayra Roadster. The topless variant of the Huayra is planned to be revealed at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show, a whopping six years after the Italian automaker took the veils off the hardtop model.
Bearing in mind more than half a decade separate the original Huayra and the Huayra Roadster, it’s no wonder the latter will make a discordant note from the car on which it’s based. As per Horacio Pagani on the automaker’s Instagram page, the roadster “would be lighter than the coupe.” Just how much lighter, we’ll find out in March at Geneva. For reference, the Huayra coupe tips the scales with a dry weight of 1,350 kilograms (2,976 lbs).
Bearing in mind hacking the roof off usually means more weight, Pagani deserves a big round of applause for this feat. That’s not the only surprise the Huayra Roadster has in store for us. Big kahuna Horacio also let it slip that “the Pagani Huayra BC was an incredible piece of engineering, so all this technology was built into the Pagani Huayra Roadster.” In layman’s terms, the roadster version is a little more potent than the fixed-head coupe model.
The Mercedes-AMG-developed M158 V12 develops 730 PS (720 horsepower) and 1,000 Nm (738 lb-ft) of torque in standard tune. In the Huayra BC, the 6.0-liter twin-turbo blunderbuss churns out just about 800 PS (789 horsepower) and 1,100 Nm (811 lb-ft) of torque. It remains to be seen if the Huayra Roadster will mirror the output figures of the Huayra BC, but there’s no denying the new kid on the block is a wild beast in its own right.
From a visual standpoint, the biggest difference brought by the Huayra Roadster to the table is a redesigned rear deck that appears to incorporate two flying buttresses. Similarly mysterious is the open-top aspect of the mid-engined model. From the looks of it, the carbon fiber roof seems to be a manually removable panel designed to be stowed away somewhere in the car.
Bearing in mind hacking the roof off usually means more weight, Pagani deserves a big round of applause for this feat. That’s not the only surprise the Huayra Roadster has in store for us. Big kahuna Horacio also let it slip that “the Pagani Huayra BC was an incredible piece of engineering, so all this technology was built into the Pagani Huayra Roadster.” In layman’s terms, the roadster version is a little more potent than the fixed-head coupe model.
The Mercedes-AMG-developed M158 V12 develops 730 PS (720 horsepower) and 1,000 Nm (738 lb-ft) of torque in standard tune. In the Huayra BC, the 6.0-liter twin-turbo blunderbuss churns out just about 800 PS (789 horsepower) and 1,100 Nm (811 lb-ft) of torque. It remains to be seen if the Huayra Roadster will mirror the output figures of the Huayra BC, but there’s no denying the new kid on the block is a wild beast in its own right.
From a visual standpoint, the biggest difference brought by the Huayra Roadster to the table is a redesigned rear deck that appears to incorporate two flying buttresses. Similarly mysterious is the open-top aspect of the mid-engined model. From the looks of it, the carbon fiber roof seems to be a manually removable panel designed to be stowed away somewhere in the car.
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