The Huayra’s engine was built by Mercedes’ AMG performance division, and according to Car and Driver, only 40 Huayra BC roadsters will be made. The engine vents its exhaust via six distinct pipes, and four intercoolers are employed to keep the motor from turning into a blob of molten metal. If you can get your hands on one of the 40 production version Huayara BC roadsters, it will cost you $3.5 million, but considering that gets you nearly 800 horsepower behind a car that weighs less than a Honda Accord, it’s money well spent if you have it.
The Huayra BC roadster set a lap record for production cars of 2:23.081 at Belgium’s Spa Francorchamps road course, and Motor Trend‘s Jonny Lieberman was impressed to the point of intimidation by the power of the Huayra’s V12. “I came off the throttle after a few seconds because, well, because I was frightened,” he wrote. “The tires couldn’t handle the torque, I couldn’t handle the torque, nor could MotorTrend’s insurance company.” The current BC roadster will be the last version of the Huayra, but start saving your pennies because its beastly V12 will live on in Pagani’s next car, the C10.
