Bellisima: The Pagani Huayra Tricolore
Horacio Pagani’s second tribute car to the Frecce Tricolori is a dazzling (and expensive) upgrade from his first nod to the great Italian aerobatics team.
Written by Preston Charles
Reviewed by Serena Aburahma
Back in 2010, Horacio Pagani paid tribute to the “Frecce Tricolori”, the
Italian
Air Force’s aerobatics team, on their 50th birthday with his Zonda Tricolore. It was a dazzling, roughly $1.3 million
hypercar
that was a fitting gift for the high fliers. Now, ten years later, he’s cooked up another tribute for the 60th birthday in the screaming, $5.5 million, Pagani Huarya Tricolore.Originally intended to be a one-car tribute, Pagani saw an opportunity to make some coin and built three models in total. I mean, if you figure out how to build it once, you may as well do it again a couple of times to make it worth it, right?!
What is the Pagani Huayra Tricolore built of?
The
Pagani
Huayra Tricolore will come fitted with the now classic AMG twin-turbo
V12, 6.0-liter engine. This puts the horsepower up to 829 with 811 lb-ft of torque. It’s a rear-wheel drive that uses a seven-speed sequential clutch gearbox and electromechanical differential. The body is built of the latest generation composite material and comes in at an insanely light, 1,270 kg. Wowzer.
Attention to detail on the Pagani Huayra Tricolore
As a nod to the Frecce Tricolori (think Italy’s version of The Blue Angels), no aspect of the design was carelessly considered.
For starters, you would think that a highly exclusive collection of 3 cars in total would simply be numbered 1-3. Horacio decided that’d be too basic so he numbered them based on the key members of the Frecce Tricolori.
Aircraft one “leads the patrol during all aerobatic manoeuvres” while number ten “splits off from the group in the most spectacular sequences” to “show the high performance of the aircraft in flight”.
Zero refers to the Commander, who “directs the display from the ground” and takes care of “all the stages of mission planning and training”.
The main inspiration for the Huayra was the Frecce Tricolori’s Aermacchi MB-339A P.A.N aircraft with the updated version of the tribute even more aerodynamic than the previous iteration.
The more pronounced front splitter increases the downforce and a new front bumper shaped to make the intercooler more efficient.
The coolest and perhaps most unique (albeit useless) feature of the Huayra Tricolore is the pitot tube mounted centrally up front. What does a pitot tube do, you ask?
It measures the airspeed of an aircraft. So while you’re ideally not high flying in the car, you can know how many knots you’re pushing it like Maverick trying to make a crucial sweeping maneuver.
And of course, you can’t talk about the design without mentioning the iconic, tri-colored red, green, and white stripes on the outside that identically match that of the Frecce Tricolori’s aircraft (and namesake).
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