EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT PAGANI'S LONG TAIL

Meet the Pagani Huayra Codalunga, a £6m one-of-five... long tail. Weren't expecting that one, were you?

- Vijay Pattni

Very rarely does a new Pagani special edition fail to impress, but this one might just leave you more than a little flabbergasted. This is the very special, very limited and very, very expensive Pagani Huayra 'Codalunga'.

It's the work of Pagani's freshly minted Grandi Complicazioni division - that's the special projects department - working in close collaboration with the client who had long requested a long tail version of the turbocharged V12 hypercar.

Using the "simple linear style" of the Huayra Coupe as its base, the team then took inspiration from the gorgeous Le Mans long tails from the Sixties, "which had very clean lines". It took two years to finalise the concept, using scale and full-size models to perfect the silhouette.

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