For only $3,999,995 this Pagani Huayra can be all yours
There are always a lot of beautiful automobiles cruising around downtown Montreal during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, but this one should win the prize for coolest car.
It’s a 2016 Pagani Huayra and it is on display as part of the Crescent St. Festival Grand Prix. It’s also for sale if you want to buy it. The price: $3,999,995. Talk about sticker shock. What do you get when you spend almost $4 million for a sports car that looks like a mix between the Batmobile and something out of a James Bond movie?
“You get, first of all, a vehicle that’s completely hand-crafted,” said Haig Kanadjian, a performance specialist at OB Prestige Auto.
“You get a very, very limited production number, a car that’s built with all of the best materials ever created by man.
“Everything is handmade,” Kanadjian added. “The owner and designer of the company, Horacio Pagani, he designs the cars himself, so he likes to perfect everything.”
The Pagani Huayra on display at de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. just west of Crescent is part of Olivier Benloulou’s car collection. He also owns OB Prestige Auto, which specializes in pre-owned exotic, luxury and performance vehicles.
Kanadjian said Benloulou’s 2016 Pagani Huayra is the only streetlegal one in Canada. The engine, which was built by Mercedes-Benz especially for Pagani, is a 6-litre, 12-cylinder, twin-turbo that produces 730 horsepower and can reach a top speed of 370 km/h. The entire chassis is made of carbon fibre.
Horacio Pagani, an Argentinian, worked for Renault and Lamborghini, where he specialized in composites, before deciding to start his own car company in 1992, based in Italy. Kanadjian said the company only produces about 15 cars a year and there are just two models — the Zonda and the Huayra. Kanadjian said Pagani spent eight years perfecting the design for the body of the Huayra before production started.
“That’s how much of a perfectionist he is,” Kanadjian said.
“He’s an artist and his main goal was to marry art, science, technology and automotive performance into one car — and that’s what this car is. His inspiration comes from art.”
Car and Driver describes the Huayra as “ludicrous in every way and utterly fascinating in every gorgeous detail,” adding the car is “for those who have grown bored with mere Ferraris and Lamborghinis and already have two Bugattis.”
Kanadjian has had an opportunity to drive the Huayra and said: “It’s like driving a space shuttle with wheels. It’s really awesome. It’s like playing a really cool video game.”
The black Pagani car was attracting a lot of attention Thursday afternoon at the Festival Grand Prix. One young man admiring it from a few feet away behind a stanchion said to his buddy: “I want to have car babies with that car.”
He didn’t appear the type who had the nearly $4 million needed to buy it.