Pagani Automobili returns to the Goodwood Festival of Speed with a world premiere that feels tailor-made for the lawn, the hill and the collectors who understand the brand at its most personal. The Pagani Huayra 70 Derecho arrives as the second of three Huayra 70 creations built to celebrate Horacio Pagani’s 70th birthday, and it brings the company’s familiar blend of art, engineering and mechanical theater back into the spotlight.
Created through Pagani’s Grandi Complicazioni division, the Derecho is not simply another special edition. It is a few-off interpretation of the Huayra formula, shaped by personal significance and executed with the precision of a private commission. Goodwood gives that story the right setting: a place where design, heritage and performance are appreciated as a living experience rather than a static reveal.
A Birthday Tribute with Hypercar Presence
The Huayra 70 Derecho carries the visual drama expected from Pagani, but the color and material choices give it a character of its own. The Pearl Orange bodywork is paired with Inky Blue detailing, creating a contrast that emphasizes the car’s exposed carbon fiber and the intricate fish-bone weave beneath the finish.
Milled aluminum components with a Glossy Titanium anodized finish add another layer of detail, while the custom Huayra 70 wheels continue the exterior theme. As with the most memorable Paganis, the attraction is not one single element. It is the total composition: color, texture, mechanical form and hand-finished detail working together.
Manual V12 Character
The technical headline is just as important as the visual one. The Huayra 70 Derecho is powered by a Mercedes-AMG-sourced 6.0-liter twin-turbocharged V12, paired with a seven-speed manual transmission and rear-wheel drive. Output is listed at 864 PS, or 852 horsepower, with 811 lb-ft of torque, placing the car firmly in the rare category of modern hypercars that still ask the driver to participate through three pedals.
That matters because Pagani has always treated emotion as a performance component. The Derecho’s power, open-top configuration and manual transmission create a different kind of engagement from the numbers-first hypercar world. It is fast, certainly, but the larger message is tactility.
Goodwood as a Stage
Pagani’s Goodwood display places the Huayra 70 Derecho alongside the Zonda F Roadster and Utopia Roadster, forming a compact timeline of the brand’s evolution. The Zonda still represents the spark that made Pagani a permanent part of the hypercar conversation. The Utopia carries the brand’s current design and engineering language. The Derecho connects both ideas through a highly personal celebration of Horacio Pagani himself.
Horacio Pagani’s own philosophy has always centered on the meeting point between science and art. The Derecho continues that approach by blending advanced materials with the human touch of the Atelier. Lorenzo Kerkoc, Head of Grandi Complicazioni, describes the car’s configuration as a meeting of aesthetic research and material innovation, where sportiness and elegance are meant to speak the same language.
A Few-Off Pagani with Meaning
In an era when performance figures often dominate the discussion, the Huayra 70 Derecho shows why Pagani remains different. The car is defined by the story around it as much as the specification: a birthday tribute, a Goodwood world premiere, a Grandi Complicazioni project and a manual V12 roadster built with the kind of detail that rewards close inspection.
For The Speed Journal, the Huayra 70 Derecho represents the best kind of Goodwood reveal. It is rare, emotional and mechanically significant, but also deeply connected to the person whose vision made Pagani possible. The result is a hypercar that does not simply mark a moment. It gives that moment a shape, a sound and a sense of occasion.
