Top Gear drives the Pagani Huayra
Cars like this only come around so often. Here's Tom Ford's take on Pagani's latest masterpiece...
Posted: 19 Dec 2012
One of my biggest mistakes was assuming that this was anything like a Zonda. The Huayra is a completely different prospect. From the off, there's a whine like a turbocharged mosquito as the fuel pumps prime, and then, when you turn the key fully, the engine heaves into life with a deep, throbby cough. It is not - on first hearing - particularly inspiring. It doesn't have the multi-cylinder, layered choral whoop of the Zonda. It sounds industrial. Rev harder, and it gets even less sentimental, the turbos whistling and the dump valves making heavy ‘CHOOMPF' noises, like someone chopping big blocks of polystyrene with an axe.