In an era obsessed with lap times, downforce, and digitized dominance, Pagani dares to look backward. Not in regression, but in romantic rebellion — to a time when speed wore a tailored suit, and elegance wasn’t compromised by engineering, but elevated by it.
The Pagani Huayra Codalunga Speedster is a weaponized throwback. It’s Horacio Pagani’s tribute to the golden age of motorsport — an era of coachbuilt racers, tapered bodies, and roaring V12s — reimagined with 21st-century savagery.
And yes, only 10 road-legal examples will ever be built. What you’re looking at is a unicorn with titanium lungs and carbon fiber bones.
Sculpting the Wind: A Philosophy in Motion
From a distance, the Codalunga Speedster might fool you. No wings. No vents. Just curves. It doesn’t scream speed. It whispers it — like the Le Mans prototypes of the 1950s and ’60s that inspired it. But make no mistake: this isn’t a retro costume. It’s aero by subtraction.
Everything starts with a new Carbo-Titanium and Carbo-Triax monocoque, engineered for rigidity without weight. Pagani then designed every surface to eliminate visual noise. The windshield is lower. The side glass curves with the flow. The transparent removable roof creates an unbroken line from nose to tail — a teardrop silhouette sculpted by CFD, not committee.
Even the tail — long and clean — is a rejection of the trend toward functional clutter. There are no wild spoilers. No angry splitters. Just air channels tucked beneath and around the body, working in silence.
The Powerplant: A Hammer in Silk Gloves
Of course, form without fury is just sculpture. That’s not what this is.
Underneath that hand-finished rear clamshell lives the familiar monster: a 5,980cc twin-turbo Pagani V12, developed with Mercedes-AMG but tuned to Pagani’s own standards. The numbers are delicious:
- 864 HP at 6,000 rpm
- 1,100 Nm (811 lb-ft) of torque starting at 2,800 rpm
- 7-speed Pagani by Xtrac gearbox — available in AMT or a true manual
That last bit matters. You can spec this car with a manual transmission. No paddle nonsense. No double-clutch perfection. Just raw, mechanical exhilaration under your left foot and fingertips. It’s a transmission for the few who still know how to bleed a clutch at redline and grin through it.
And the noise? A six-way titanium exhaust setup ensures it doesn’t just go fast — it sounds fast. Four ceramic-coated upper outlets harmonize with two low-mounted titanium screamers to deliver a tone that’s equal parts opera and cannon fire.
Interior: Crafted, Not Manufactured
Step inside and you’ll swear you’re in a jeweler’s workshop. The cabin is a cocktail of old-world craftsmanship and obsessive material engineering.
Leathers are hammered, stitched by hand, and paired with solid-milled aluminum switchgear polished until it glows. Every dial and toggle feels like it came off an E-Type track car — not because Pagani is copying the past, but because they understand its tactile soul.
The steering wheel is a sculpture: carbon fiber frame, mahogany grips, aluminum rivets hand-set like horological gems. The gear lever sits exposed, open-gated, and proudly mechanical — the kind of detail that doesn’t belong in an EV future.
Then there’s the embroidery: a custom fabric developed just for the Codalunga, stitched with over 450,000 individual threads. It borrows its pattern from Pagani’s iconic four-exhaust motif — a subtle nod to heritage disguised as haute couture.
Engineering for the Few, Not the Many
The underpinnings are Pagani’s typical exercise in technical overkill:
- Double wishbone suspension, forged aluminum
- Variable-rate springs, coaxial shocks
- Pagani by Brembo carbon-ceramic brakes
- Avional monoblock wheels
- Pirelli Trofeo R tires
Grip isn’t optional. It’s a requirement — because this car was built not just to look clean, but to drive dirty. The Codalunga Speedster isn’t a showpiece. It’s a tool, forged for owners who don’t just collect horsepower — they unleash it.
Grandi Complicazioni: Where Dreams Go to Get Engineered
This project was born under Pagani’s Grandi Complicazioni division — a low-volume skunkworks dedicated to the ultra-rare and deeply personal. Like the world of haute horlogerie, these are creations too intricate for mass production and too bold for mainstream thinking.
Each of the ten Codalunga Speedsters will be built from scratch in direct collaboration with the owner. No paint codes. No trim packages. Just dreams, sketches, and the mad science of Horacio Pagani’s inner circle.
“We don’t design cars,” Pagani says. “We listen to them.”
Final Word: An Anti-Supercar in a Supercar World
The Huayra Codalunga Speedster isn’t just the next installment in Pagani’s hypercar saga. It’s a philosophical shift — a return to analog roots with modern firepower. It says no to excess for excess’s sake and yes to meaningful detail, driver focus, and raw connection.
It’s not for everyone. It’s not meant to be.
This is a car for the driver who shifts by feel, who reads apexes in muscle memory, and who still believes in the poetry of internal combustion.
Only ten people will get to own one.
The rest of us? We’ll just listen for the echo when it flies by — roof off, redline on.
