Pagani is growing a substitute for its Huayra supercar, and CEO Horacio Pagani has revealed some key particulars in an in-depth interview with Italy’s Quattroruote revealed final week.
The brand new automobile is code-named the C10 (the Huayra was the C9), and is due for a reveal round mid-2022, with the debut to happen on the Leonardo da Vinci museum in Milan, Italy.
Not more than 300 examples will probably be constructed, together with coupe and convertible physique types, in addition to the standard string of particular editions, and apparently all construct slots have been bought, although it is doubtless a few of the consumers are Pagani’s most popular dealerships. As a comparability, Pagani has constructed round 280 Huayras.
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As revealed in a 2019 interview, there are two variations of the C10 within the works, one with a newly developed 6.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-12 from Mercedes-Benz AMG and the opposite with an electrical powertrain. The V-12 will probably be obtainable with the selection of a guide transmission or a paddle-shifted sequential unit, and it’ll stay emissions compliant across the globe at the very least till 2026, after which hybrid expertise will doubtless be required to maintain.
Within the case of the electrical powertrain, Pagani, in his interview with Quattroruote, mentioned the corporate may faucet present provider Mercedes for the expertise. One other risk that just lately opened is American electric-vehicle startup Lucid Motors. Lucid’s proprietor is Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, the sovereign wealth fund which in August bought a 30% stake in Pagani. We’ll remind you that Lucid’s Air Dream Edition Performance electrical sedan already affords efficiency that may rival one in all Pagani’s supercars, due to an 1,111-hp output.
Pagani mentioned that peak output of the C10 will stay beneath 900 hp no matter what’s powering the automobile. He mentioned this is sufficient to preserve the automobile enjoyable with out it turning into overbearing. He mentioned Paganis aren’t concerning the quickest acceleration or highest high velocity, and that each one of his vehicles are velocity restricted to 217 mph—with not a single buyer requesting for this restrict to be eliminated. As an alternative, Pagani plans to concentrate on lightness, together with for the electrical model.
