The Pagani Huayra Is Back To Celebrate Horacio’s 70th Anniversary

Pagani is developing a healthy habit we can all get behind. When the company’s founder turned 60, the Italian exotic marque marked the occasion with the wild Zonda HP Barchetta. A decade later, the new Huayra 70 Trionfo celebrates another milestone in the life of Lamborghini’s former chief engineer.

It’s an outlandish take on a car that was technically retired years ago to make room for the Utopia. But knowing Pagani’s modus operandi, it’s hardly surprising the Huayra is back in the limelight. Compared to the standard car, only the doors and window frames carry over. The rest of the body is entirely new, including dual-point headlights that recall another special Huayra, the Codalunga.

Dropping the quad-light theme shakes things up in the design department, though the green-and-orange carbon-fiber color scheme was already eye-catching enough. Pagani says it will build just three examples, without specifying whether these are entirely new cars or conversions of existing vehicles. As a reminder of the brand’s fondness for eternal nameplates, the Zonda proved its immortality last year with the Unico, some 26 years after the original debuted.

The ultra-aggressive bodywork and extreme aero suggest the 70 Trionfo is based on the Huayra Roadster BC. That model featured Mercedes-AMG’s twin-turbo 6.0-liter V12 tuned to a staggering 791 horsepower and 774 pound-feet (1,050 Newton-meters) of torque. A seven-speed automated-manual gearbox sent power to the rear wheels, all in a supercar weighing just 2,756 pounds (1,250 kilograms).

However, the Huayra 70 Trionfo’s owner reveals in an Instagram post that Pagani has turned things up even further, with the AMG beating heart now producing 834 hp. It gets even better: the power is delivered through a seven-speed manual transmission instead of the Huayra Roadster BC’s automated-manual ’box. It wouldn’t be the first time a Huayra has gone fully manual. The 2024 Epitome famously came with a delightful gated shifter. Last year’s open-top Huayra Codalunga also had a proper manual.

Pagani isn’t showing the other two 70-spec Huayras, but this is apparently the only one built as a Trionfo, Italian for “triumph.”

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Motor1’s Take: We’ll never tire of special Zondas and Huayras. It’s impressive how Pagani keeps finding new ways to bring these cars back into the spotlight, even though both were officially retired years ago.

This strategy has even inspired Bugatti to do the same, revisiting the Chiron twice already: first with the 2025 Brouillard and more recently with the Veyron-esque FKP Hommage.