Jay Leno's Garage - the Pagani Huayra...
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http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/at-the-garage/super-...
Leno seems a little less at ease in this video which is odd as his job is interviewing people. But anyway, it's always good to see Horatio talking about his latest creation...
Love this shot though - Leno talking to Horatio, with the McLaren F1 and Rocket in the background...
Having watched that, i think it was a huge mistake that the first images were of the beige one. This red one, which i saw at Geneva looks amazing to me. After hearing the acceleration in that video i'm not sure it's as nice aurally as the Zonda, but my opinion is definitely changing...
Leno seems a little less at ease in this video which is odd as his job is interviewing people. But anyway, it's always good to see Horatio talking about his latest creation...
Love this shot though - Leno talking to Horatio, with the McLaren F1 and Rocket in the background...
Having watched that, i think it was a huge mistake that the first images were of the beige one. This red one, which i saw at Geneva looks amazing to me. After hearing the acceleration in that video i'm not sure it's as nice aurally as the Zonda, but my opinion is definitely changing...
Edited by Beefmeister on Thursday 15th September 05:57
Great video
Can't help but feel that the beauty of the engineered parts under the body panels look more beautiful and elegant than the body itself
Maybe it looks better in the flesh
I remember seeing a Zonda R at Joe Macari's when I was with Joe and the owner - it looked utterly stunning in every aspect
Can't help but feel that the beauty of the engineered parts under the body panels look more beautiful and elegant than the body itself
Maybe it looks better in the flesh
I remember seeing a Zonda R at Joe Macari's when I was with Joe and the owner - it looked utterly stunning in every aspect
Alpinestars said:
It looks awful in the flesh, especially the vents. Big disappointment after the Zonda.
It's only my opinion but I think it looks fantastic in the flesh. I seriously considered buying one.I have been fortunate enough to have a passenger ride with Horacio at the wheel and the quality just oozes out of it.
Out of interest, what is it you don't like about it?
Justices said:
Streetrod said:
He would not even have to go that far as he could just import it as a non American as long as the car is out of the country within 6 months. Effectively he is just a tourist taking his car for a tour around the USA.
12 month no? If not I may be in a bit of a spot 
And here is the Zonda R in Jays garage, surely the best sounding car ever
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/at-the-garage/sports...
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/at-the-garage/sports...
Lambo FirstBlood said:
Alpinestars said:
It looks awful in the flesh, especially the vents. Big disappointment after the Zonda.
It's only my opinion but I think it looks fantastic in the flesh. I seriously considered buying one.I have been fortunate enough to have a passenger ride with Horacio at the wheel and the quality just oozes out of it.
Out of interest, what is it you don't like about it?
I went to the Geneva show, the one car I wanted to see was the new Lambo as I was disappointed with photos of the new Pagani despite photoshopping the colour & wheels to my taste (funnily enough the colour was the same as the Geneva car), as I approached the Pagani stand it came in to view, I stopped dead and revealed "Ohh my god.....that is utterly beautiful", sounds very cheesey and believe me it was, took 15 minutes of grovelling to SWMBO as she had never heard me use the word beautiful before
Id love to see one in red with smoked chrome wheels or black....
It's not ready for the US yet...
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Pagani has been frequently seen in the headlines the last week over the US debut of their latest creation, the Pagani Huayra. Reports in various media last weekend suggested the Italian supercar would not be able to sell its cars in the US after the NHTSA denied an exemption request from the advanced airbag rule submitted by Pagani over three years ago. In an attempt to find out what was going on, we got in touch with Pagani and today can bring you their explanation on where they are at with the Pagani Huayra introduction in the US.
First of all they like to share that with last weeks debut the Huayra and Pagani brand received an overwhelming reception by the invited media and customers.
But to clear up the current situation we have to go back three years in time. It was than in the Summer of 2008 when Pagani petitioned NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) for a temporary exemption from the advanced or ‘smart’ airbag rule as regards the Huayra. The exemption would have covered sales for the first few years in the US. Pagani adds:
“The fundamental motivation for our exemption request concerned having to prioritize our budget (we have to remember that this was happening at the start of a period of global economic uncertainty). And keep in mind, this exemption had already been given to companies such as Bugatti, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Koenigsegg and Spyker.”
The advanced airbag regulations in the US are just a small part of car safety regulations and rules as a whole. Pagani has developed systems that go way beyond regular safety regulations and normal speed crash tests as indicated by the following indepth view on some of the extraordinary safety systems used in and developed for the Pagani Huayra:
From research and experience, we know about the dynamics of accidents in supercars, so we focused on a thorough development of the center tub in carbo-titanium, with many destructive tests to prove our designs. We developed a fuel system that behaves in a precise fashion during a crash, not only because of the position and construction of the fuel tank, but also because of the pressure management in the whole system, getting rid of high pressure instantly in the event of an impact, and thus reducing the probability of a major fuel spray in the engine bay if a fuel line were damaged. We know that this is a typical event in lateral high speed crashes. A significant investment also went into the study of how the subframes would behave in a side crash, especially the rear subframe, which in our car detaches from the carbon safety cell, dissipating kinetic energy by getting rid of over 400kg of the weight to which the occupants are attached at that moment.
There are no rules that tell you how a car must behave in a 200km/h crash. Even if Germany may be the only place in the world where you can legally drive the car on the highway at these speeds, we still feel compelled to make sure that our car is as safe as possible throughout its range of performance, rather than merely as safe as required.
Obviously, the integration of the advanced airbag system is very much in our plans, and has been from the start. To prove this point, you need only to look at the hardware components that we fitted on the Huayra from the beginning, even on the European version. The airbag components, are compatible with advanced airbag management (airbag, advanced belt retainer, steering column). This shows our determination to design a car that will meet all requirements in our relative markets.
During these past three years, Pagani has been waiting for a reply from NHTSA, and they had been led to believe that by June of this year an answer finally would be available. Obviously, having a NHTSA decision prior to the key events that Pagani had planned for the US was very important. From June 2011 Pagani put utmost pressure on the NHTSA to receive an answer regarding their exemption request. As you can imagine the market introduction in the US has a large impact on the budget of a small company like Pagani. Pagani continues:
Friday the 29th of July, we received from NHTSA the denial of our petition (Five days prior to our first US event and about three years after it was requested). This news spread like wildfire. Fortunately, however, over the last months, after having not heard anything from the authorities, we sped up the development of the advanced system with a large number of simulation runs and tests.
As GTspirit reported last month Pagani’s schedule prior to the denial foresaw start of US deliveries in mid to late 2012; now Pagani cautiously says first part of 2013. Pagani finishes with:
The US market is important to Pagani and the future of our company. The Huayra project had a US market introduction as a key goal from the start. The reception we are currently experiencing in the US fully supports our vision and will fuel our determination to uccessfully deliver the Huayra to our customers in the United States.
To sum it up, Pagani confirms reports that a requested exemption for the advanced airbag rule has been denied by NHTSA but denies this will permanently disrupt a market introduction of the Pagani Huayra in the United States. With preparations for the implementation of an advanced airbag system done, and testing well under way a successful market introduction of the Pagani Huayra in the United States with a delay of six to nine months is still feasible. This would put the first customer Pagani Huayra on the US roads as soon as the beginning of 2013.
Beefmeister said:
It's not ready for the US yet...
http://www.worldcarfans.com/111080935571/pagani-hu...
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http://www.worldcarfans.com/111081035605/pagani-sa...
$374,000 for an airbag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.worldcarfans.com/111080935571/pagani-hu...
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