Pagani Huayra Roadster - update

Looks like the Roadster is going to be built to Huayra BC spec...

This year's Geneva show promises to be another stunning expo for supercars, what with new arrivals from McLaren, Lamborghini and Porsche due in addition to this latest Pagani.

A drop-top version of this? Yes please!

Details have been light so far on the Huayra Roadster, with Pagani only now adding one more image and a solitary additional sentence. Still, when that sentence is "We realised the Pagani Huayra BC was an incredible piece of engineering so all this technology was built into the Pagani Huayra Roadster", having just the one doesn't seem that bad.

As a reminder, the Huayra BC coupe was built in tribute to Horacio Pagani's mentor Benny Caiola; described as "the most technologically advanced Huayra Coupe yet", it produced more than 750hp and boasted a kerbweight of just 1,218kg. While we would expect the Roadster to add a few more kilos, that still bodes very well for a healthy power-to-weight ratio.

As for the image here, it's difficult to make any conclusive statements. Perhaps that driver's canopy is a little smaller than the coupe, but really we're looking for differences here as opposed to actually finding them.

Finally, as if it was in any doubt, Pagani has used the hashtag #Geneva2017 to accompany this pic, confirming that it will be in Switzerland in a few weeks time.

[Source: Pagani Automobili, via Facebook]

ORIGINAL STORY, AS REPORTED 23/01/2017:
Though it's been easy to forget about with the Zonda special editions seemingly endless, the Pagani Huayra has been around for five years now. And when you think how quickly the Zonda evolved, from the early C12s to the 7.3 S and beyond, Huayra progress may have looked a little sluggish by comparison. Still, when you're starting with a 740hp V12...

This is all you're getting for now!

For 2017, following last year's Huarya BC, Pagani will reveal the Huayra Roadster. This is our first look at said car, a set of mysterious images ahead of a full reveal at Geneva. What is there to see? Well unsurprisingly the twin-turbo V12 appears to stay, seen here with some fairly serious bracing around it and what look like new buttresses behind the headrests. Top marks for a very swoopy and artistic camo wrap too.

Other details are familiar from the Huayra coupe, the front and rear lights shown here are seemingly identical. Beyond that there's not a lot to guess at just yet, with the car still largely under wraps. In the Pagani tradition expect the roof to be as lightweight as possible; therefore it could well be a manual assembly job, with the usual faff associated with putting a roof together. Whether it's a manual or electric roof though, it seems likely Pagani will use canvas (or something else light) rather than a folding metal substitute.

The Pagani Huayra will be shown at Geneva, which promises to be quite the show for supercars with both the McLaren Super Series and Huracan Performante due as well. Stay tuned!