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00:00It's a mechanical sculpture inspired by wind and built to echo flight.
00:09Vagani is definitely the jet fighter of the hypercar world.
00:13A hypercar that's equal parts high performance and artistic masterpiece.
00:18It's a one man's vision and you see that in every single part of the car.
00:23Ultra exotic art that comes with an ultra hefty price tag.
00:27There are expensive cars and there are really expensive cars and then there are cars that
00:30cost well over a million dollars.
00:33Art and engineering that transcend the realm of the supercar.
00:36He's taking it to the next level where he's setting his supercar apart by trying to make
00:40it as perfect as possible.
00:41A piece of automotive perfection called the Pagani Huayra.
01:12Nothing about this car is ordinary.
01:16Its engine cranks out 730 horsepower.
01:20Almost double most sports cars.
01:24It has a top speed of 372 kilometers per hour.
01:29One third the speed of sound.
01:33It costs 850,000 euros.
01:37Nearly 34 times the price of an average car.
01:41The Pagani Huayra is one of the most exotic hypercars ever built.
01:45And it's all a dream of just one man.
01:50My name is Horacio Pagani.
01:52I'm chief designer at Pagani.
01:58In the small Italian town of San Cesario Sul Panaro, Horacio Pagani is leading an automotive
02:04renaissance.
02:06For the last 125 years of the automobile, the most special cars have come from the visions
02:12of one man.
02:13Horacio Pagani really fancies himself an artist as much as an engineer.
02:17It's one guy and it's his vision of a supercar and it's a world crowded with supercars.
02:25This is the home of Pagani Automobili, where Horacio Pagani has set out to do the unthinkable.
02:32With his very own supercar company.
02:35Pagani kind of came out of nowhere, much like Lamborghini did many, many years ago.
02:43In 1999 at the Geneva Auto Show, Pagani takes the world by storm when he introduces his
02:48very first car, the Zonda.
02:55I was at Geneva Motor Show, the quintessential automotive show amongst all the car exhibitions,
03:01with a car designed, built and planned by me.
03:05The machine wows critics and car fans alike.
03:09All of a sudden here's this car that's so great to look at and to listen to and observe
03:13and touch and feel that it captured the imagination of car people all over the world.
03:19The Zonda is an ultra lightweight mid-engine exotic, featuring a hand-built Mercedes-Benz
03:25AMG V12.
03:28The machine becomes a poster child for a new automotive term, the hypercar.
03:35I'm very pleased that because of the Zonda, a new category has been created, the hypercar.
03:42For years, the number of machines capable of breaking the 300 km per hour barrier was
03:51small.
03:52And for good reason.
03:55At that speed, a car covers the length of a football field nearly every second.
04:02Supercars back in the 80s could do 150, 180 miles an hour maybe.
04:06Now your standard supercar will do over 200 miles an hour.
04:08We've started using the term hypercars.
04:13One of the cars that helps define the new term is the Pagani Zonda.
04:18Until the Zonda, hypercars didn't exist.
04:22After the Zonda, we now have the hypercar.
04:24We're calling these hypercars for lack of a better word because we're well over 700
04:27horsepower.
04:28Just extreme territory, extreme cost, extreme power, extreme performance.
04:32Supercar isn't a strong enough word.
04:34It's a hypercar now.
04:38The 2000s were very prolific years in the hypercar world.
04:41Those years saw the birth of extraordinary vehicles, built by the premier designers.
04:49Today, there are at least 30 cars that can break 321 kilometers per hour.
04:56The term hypercar distinguishes the truly high-performance and exclusive from the merely
05:01out of reach.
05:02I'd like to think that hypercars are more exclusive.
05:04What hypercars do differently is they make the whole experience special.
05:07The inside's nice, they're really crafted well, they're beautiful, they're not just
05:11there to go crazy fast.
05:14At first, both Horatio and his Zonda are dismissed by critics since the company has
05:20no track record.
05:21When we first saw the Zonda, we all kind of thought, oh, that's interesting looking, we'll
05:27never see it.
05:28While the Zonda shocks the world, its success shouldn't.
05:32Horatio Pagani has been beating the odds for a very long time.
05:41Born on the 10th of November, 1955, in Argentina, Horatio builds his first race car at the age
05:48of 20.
05:50By 1983, his passion for speed brings him to Italy as the chief of engineering at Lamborghini.
05:56His crowning achievement is the Countach Evoluzione, the world's first car with a carbon-fibre frame.
06:05Horatio sees lightweight carbon-fibre as the future of the supercar genre.
06:09His bosses at Lamborghini disagree.
06:15So in 1991, Horatio leaves to start his own firm.
06:20It takes a strong, strong person to form a company and stick to what you want and make
06:25sure that the final product comes out looking like what you wanted it to with all the compromises
06:29inherent in engineering a car.
06:33Horatio's vision is to do the impossible, start his own supercar company.
06:39A feat that doesn't happen very often in the automotive world.
06:43Pagani has created a brand out of really nothing and, you know, it's an amazing thing.
06:48Pagani is a little bit more on the side of art and theatre than perhaps some of the other
06:52titans of the automotive industry, but he's definitely one of them.
06:56Exact figures are elusive, but in the brand's first 15 years of existence, they sell around
07:02150 Zondas.
07:04You're never going to see another Pagani at a red light next to you and I think that's
07:07part of the appeal.
07:11Those 150 machines only end up in the hands of the wealthiest individuals in the world.
07:17Pagani exists in a really rarefied air.
07:19Only the richest guys in the world who really love cars have one of these.
07:25Owning a Pagani not only requires tremendous wealth, but also an appreciation for the machine's
07:31styling.
07:32Pagani has sort of carved out a niche in that world and he's building his own thing and
07:36his customers are sort of part of that vision now.
07:39Fifteen years after the machine's introduction, the Zonda is growing long in the tooth.
07:43And when you build only one model, that can spell financial disaster.
07:48The biggest risk for Horatio Pagani is that people get tired of Paganis.
07:53He's got a very niche business.
07:55He's selling a small number of extremely expensive hand-built cars to extremely wealthy customers
08:01and extremely wealthy customers can sometimes be very fickle.
08:06With the Zonda aging, Pagani's ultra-exclusive customers clamor for a new machine.
08:11I mean, you've got to have a follow-up act.
08:17Horatio Pagani has spent 15 years basking in the glory of a universally revered hypercar.
08:26Now he needs a follow-up.
08:29His answer is to start from scratch.
08:34Focusing not just on higher performance figures, but also a greater artistic expression.
08:45To be immersed in all of the details, even the most hidden.
08:51To try to convey the art behind it.
08:55It takes five arduous years to perfect the wirer's styling.
09:05This car needs to express all the creativity, my imagination and that of my team and all
09:12of the highly skilled labor and artistry of all the artisans who work at Pagani and at
09:17our partners.
09:23The Pagani design team creates eight scale models, as well as two full-size models.
09:32Each evolves the machine's look until Horatio is finally satisfied.
09:40When I thought up the wirer, I thought of something different, a different engine, inspired
09:45by the idea of the width, different weight distribution, measurements, suspension, frame.
09:52All completely different.
10:00The bodywork is styled by Horatio himself.
10:04The standout feature is a two-part active aerodynamic system.
10:11The new challenge, this is the first car in the world with active aerodynamics.
10:16These flaps move, and the car changes its distance from the ground because it works
10:21like a wing.
10:27The machine features airplane-inspired flaps at each corner.
10:31The flaps move independently and alter the amount of downforce the wirer experiences.
10:39Downforce is similar to the principle of lift that helps airplanes take off, only it's turned
10:44upside down.
10:46Instead of taking off, downforce pushes a car into the ground.
10:53The people working on my team, they can perceive the laws of physics, geometry, math, science,
11:02technology, all through an artistic lens.
11:08The second part of the aerodynamic system is harder to see, but perhaps even more important.
11:13The suspension automatically lowers the front of the machine to increase the wirer's angle
11:18of attack.
11:19Together, the two parts of the active aerodynamic system reduce drag.
11:28Drag is the amount of resistance an object faces as it travels through the air.
11:35The lower the drag, the easier it is to slice through the wind, and the faster it can go.
11:45The wirer's two-pronged approach reduces the coefficient of drag from 0.37 to 0.31, effectively
11:53shrinking the machine in size by one-sixth.
12:10Davide Testi is the chief test driver for the brand.
12:14He's responsible for testing every component of the new machine.
12:19Eight years ago, Miss Pagani started thinking about the new car, and after this we can start the project.
12:30Davide tests the new machine for four years.
12:34It's not too easy to build another supercar like Zonda.
12:44He drives over one million kilometres in one of five wirer prototypes.
12:51That's 46 times the average distance an American travels per year in a car.
12:57It's very strange because it's like the first meeting with a new goal, you know?
13:14After seven years of hard work, the wirer is introduced to the world in 2011.
13:22It immediately puts other exotic car manufacturers on notice,
13:26raising the bar in every measurable automotive category.
13:30When it debuted in Geneva, it was, you know, the star of the show.
13:33Everyone was surrounding it, everyone wanted to check out every single little tiny detail.
13:41The wirer blasts from zero to 100 kilometres per hour in just 3.2 seconds.
13:50It hits 200 kilometres per hour in just 9.8 seconds.
13:58In a mere 25.8 seconds, it crosses the 300 kilometre per hour mark.
14:09That's faster than a jumbo jet at takeoff.
14:15To power the wirer, Pagani once again turns to one of the most legendary automotive brands in the world.
14:24So the engine comes from Mercedes-Benz, it comes from their performance subsidiary, AMG.
14:28We have many things to offer for him because love for details is what we like too.
14:35When Horatio first discusses the new machine with the famed engine tuners,
14:39he asks for a newer, more powerful V12 engine.
14:43The Pagani V12 is a very interesting and exciting story for AMG.
14:48We got the order to make the highest performing engine we ever made,
14:51and that was the challenge we are searching for every day.
14:54The team spends over 1,000 days exploring possibilities.
15:00Their response is simply called the M158.
15:04AMG is special because they've always concentrated on insanity.
15:06AMG's stuff has always been about lunacy.
15:10This company exists to make insane cars, insane engines,
15:13and the proof is that it wound up in an insane Pagani.
15:19AMG's solution is to add turbochargers.
15:25Something that Horatio Pagani isn't keen on,
15:28because historically it adds a small delay in throttle response called turbo lag.
15:33There's the special turbo lag, everybody knows it, we don't like it,
15:36and nobody wants to feel the turbo lag, of course.
15:41The turbochargers also offer tremendous efficiency.
15:45The wirer uses around 20 liters per 100 kilometers.
15:49Unheard of fuel economy for a hypercar.
15:51Normally it's not so easy in the life of engineers to have two advantages,
15:55but in this case we have more power and less consumption.
15:58We don't have much time to do it.
16:00That was a little bit pressure.
16:04It takes the AMG team three years to perfect the power plant.
16:08It's Mercedes' most powerful modern engine,
16:10and in the Pagani it makes even more horsepower.
16:14Pagani's V12 produces almost twice as much torque as a Ferrari 458,
16:20and two and a half times the grunt in a base Porsche 911.
16:26All that power is built in a very artisanal way.
16:30By one man, on one assembly line.
16:33It's not a regular production line engine.
16:35It's one guy who builds this engine, and that's something really special.
16:40Building the wirer's engine is the responsibility of Michael Kubler.
16:46One of just two men who are allowed to put Pagani engines together.
16:50It's really an honor to be one of the two who are able and allowed to build it.
16:54Even when you're a talented engine builder,
16:56one of the rarest V12s in the world, you still get starstruck.
17:01I've met him once, when he has showed us his Pagani Huayra.
17:07I'm a petrolhead, and to see one other petrolhead
17:11who has a passion for cars, it's crazy. It's an honor.
17:14From start to finish, it takes just eight hours to build a Pagani V12 engine.
17:19That's roughly 90 horsepower per engine.
17:23And there are more than 500 parts.
17:27The first step is swinging the massive engine block onto a specially designed cart.
17:32After that, we get the crankshaft in it.
17:35Then it's time for 12 very special pistons,
17:41each one installed by hand.
17:48Then it's time to weld the pistons to the engine.
17:53Now it's time to put the pistons in.
17:55It's a little bit more difficult than you think.
17:5812 very special pistons,
18:02each one installed by hand.
18:06After the crankshaft, we made the pistons.
18:10The timing chain is added, oil pan,
18:15and cylinder heads.
18:18Michael installs the steering case and engine covers.
18:24Finally, the brightest piece on the engine,
18:26and its most important, the turbochargers.
18:30The turbocharger takes the air that normally comes into the engine,
18:34compresses the air, and brings it compressed into the engine.
18:41The turbochargers force two times as much air into the engine
18:44as a normally aspirated power plant.
18:48During a top-speed run,
18:50the engine will consume 400 litres of oxygen per hour.
18:57That's 70% of the amount of oxygen a human being breathes in a single day.
19:04After the turbo, the air intake,
19:07which is very special for the Pagani Huayra,
19:09has a bigger one than the other V12 engines from AMG.
19:13After the air intake, we have the gold cover, like this,
19:17which is a symbol of art, would I say.
19:21Engines are run at full speed for 30 minutes.
19:25Then, the massive engine heads to Italy.
19:34While the engine is being shipped in another part of Italy...
19:41over 400 unique parts are exquisitely CNC-milled by sub-supplier Asper.
19:48Here at Asper, we manufacture many parts for Pagani automobiles.
19:56What lies within these walls is a candy store
19:59of the choicest automotive bits.
20:04You might say the pieces are artisanal,
20:06but achieved by industrial means,
20:09because these are very small batches produced with very little effort.
20:14Because these are very small batches produced with great precision,
20:19a precision that even transcends industrial standards.
20:29Not only are the parts extreme, but the tolerances are, too.
20:34The tolerances requested are on the order of thousands of millimetres, microns.
20:44One thousandth of a millimetre, or one micron,
20:47is a little smaller than a spiderweb strand.
20:52Absolutely, it's a modern sculpture.
20:54Obviously, we can't compare ourselves to Michelangelo,
20:57because he worked with his hands, and that was much more difficult.
21:01We can say this is a modern sculpture, achieved using CNC machines.
21:07Asper applies that level of precision to over 400 parts for the Huayra.
21:13CNC-milled parts aren't just good for outside appearances.
21:17Inside the cabin, the ignition key is milled from aluminium as well,
21:21at a cost of 2,900 euros.
21:28When all those expensive parts are assembled,
21:31the car is ready to go.
21:36When the pieces are finally finished,
21:38it's time to ship them to San Cesario Sul Panero, Italy.
21:48Automotive visionary Horatio Pagani has spent seven years
21:52trying once again to push the boundaries of the hypercar envelope.
21:57We're at a point in the history of the automobile where everything is fast.
21:59When you have a family sedan that can keep up with a ten-year-old supercar,
22:04what are you going to call the stuff that's one step ahead of that?
22:08Pagani stays ahead of the competition one cut, one bolt, and one car at a time.
22:14Inside of a facility located on a tiny side street in a small industrial park,
22:21where 53 craftspeople endeavour to be perfect.
22:25While the building might be small, the ambition is grand.
22:29The Huayra is a machine that recreates...
22:31The Huayra brings together so many new technologies,
22:36particularly in the realm of composite materials,
22:39technologies that have been studied for years.
22:42I've worked with them for 30 years.
22:44Horatio Pagani's passion for carbon fibre starts as a young man.
22:50For the next 30 years, he masters his craft.
22:53His speciality is creating a carbon-fibre monocoque.
22:57A monocoque is a carbon-fibre tub.
22:59It's basically the passenger compartment in the safety cell.
23:02Monocoques are first developed for Formula One race cars.
23:06Eventually, they find their way into exotic hypercars.
23:09It's basically how race cars are built.
23:15Inside the Pagani factory,
23:17craftspeople build the Huayra's carbon-fibre tub by hand.
23:21We're in the section where we construct the carbon-fibre components.
23:26Carbon-fibre monocoques are extremely expensive to build.
23:31But Pagani's cost even more.
23:34Pagani weaves in titanium,
23:36and the titanium makes that mat stronger,
23:38so the plastic portion is less.
23:40Less plastic means less weight and more strength.
23:43The carbon-fibre titanium monocoque is the company's signature feature.
23:48Every single one is made in-house.
23:51Pagani doing all their carbon-fibre work in-house
23:53is an incredibly unique thing today.
23:56The process starts with a roll of cloth.
24:05Now we're looking at the area where the material is cut,
24:10which takes place in a separate room from the regular production process.
24:15Our material, our carbon-fibre, comes to us in rolls.
24:20It's basically a bolt of cloth and glue,
24:22and you put those two things together
24:24and you get an incredibly lightweight and strong structure.
24:34They use a custom cutting machine to maximise the material and limit waste.
24:41Once shapes are cut, unique kits are made up of 222 components.
24:46The wire is composed of 222 components.
24:50The wire is made up of 222 components made of composites.
24:54Each component is made up of, on average, four layers of carbon-fibre.
24:58I say on average, because some of the components are made up of many more layers.
25:03But I can't say much more about that, because it's a trade secret.
25:08Once the carbon-fibre kits are done being prepped,
25:11they head to what's called the clean room.
25:13In this department, the pre-cut carbon-fibre skids are applied to the moulds.
25:20This is where the piece takes shape.
25:27The pre-cut shapes are applied to a mould,
25:30and resin is added before pressure is applied.
25:35Once we finish the process we call lamination, that is, the multi-layer phase,
25:40all of these layers are pressed together.
25:42Why? To create a vacuum.
25:45It takes five sheets of carbon-titanium to make one Pagani Wira tub.
25:51The sheets of carbon-titanium used in the Wira make posh wallpaper look inexpensive.
25:57Just one sheet of this carbon-titanium weave is $500 per square metre,
26:01and it's only one millimetre thick.
26:05After the moulds are vacuum-sealed, they're ready for the autoclave,
26:09a large oven where heat and pressure combine to bake the Wira's carbon-fibre parts.
26:15Now we're in the section where the components are placed inside the autoclave.
26:26The autoclave cooks Wira pieces between 120 and 145 degrees Celsius.
26:31This piece here, if we expose this to 150 degrees Celsius for four hours,
26:41it will become deformed,
26:43and the resin, which has hardened, will return to a consistency of honey.
26:49To make a carbon-fibre piece, you basically take this mat of carbon-fibre fabric,
26:53you cut it to the right size, and you put it in the mould,
26:55you squeeze down on it really hard, and you bake it in a vacuum.
27:02Each carbon-fibre body part is hand-fitted
27:06and expertly shaped in a quality-control department
27:09that's more high-tech laboratory than factory.
27:12Carbon-fibre as a fabric isn't beautiful,
27:15but to get the pieces to match up when you have this three-dimensional weave is not easy.
27:19And the seams on this car are invisible.
27:21Their pieces are matched up against each other, and that's what you're paying for.
27:24If you're the type of person to understand that, you'll really appreciate it.
27:28I mean, you see the way the carbon-fibre weave is all fitted together,
27:31how it all works together. It's just impeccable, impeccable detail.
27:34The importance of the carbon-fibre can't be understated.
27:38This brick, you see, represents what we're doing with our vehicle.
27:42It's a brick that weighs less than a kilogram,
27:45and it has structural characteristics that are identical to this steel,
27:49which weighs four kilograms.
27:51It's a brick that weighs less than a kilogram,
27:54and it has structural characteristics that are identical to this steel,
27:58which weighs four kilograms.
28:05The four-to-one weight savings helps the Wira reach incredible speeds.
28:13Once the pieces are perfectly fit together, the bodywork heads to paint...
28:19...while the monocoque heads to the final assembly area.
28:25We are on the first station for the assembly line for the Pagani Wira.
28:29We can see some of the components here.
28:32This is the front chassis.
28:36It's an amazing thing to put together a car.
28:38A car has more parts than you can probably imagine.
28:43Ordinary automobiles are made up of around 3,000 parts.
28:47The Wira has over 4,700.
28:50When they say there's 50% more parts in a Pagani than there is in a typical car,
28:54it's not that surprising, because there's parts on top of parts.
28:57Each part speaks to one man's obsessive vision to create automotive art.
29:03I'm not going to diagnose the guy, but he certainly seems to be on the OCD spectrum.
29:06The car is just that detailed and perfect.
29:09It's just crazy. I mean, it's obsessive.
29:12The attention to detail is expressed by the handwork done by expert craftspeople.
29:17It's hand-assembled. Everything about this car is meticulously thought out.
29:20The attention to detail in the Pagani is off the charts,
29:23and that's what you'd expect for a car that costs so much money
29:25and takes so long to build.
29:32In a mass-production factory, a new car can roll off the line every 60 seconds.
29:37A Pagani, it takes three months to build just one Wira.
29:42They have that kind of buyer who's willing to wait for something that's perfect.
29:51Behind every Pagani component, there is the thinking
29:55that is art and chance can work together.
30:02Every build starts the same way, with the carbon-fibre monocoque.
30:06One feature that I believe that is very interesting,
30:09that the fuel tank, it is installed inside the monocoque.
30:15They move the front sub-assembly into place...
30:21...then bolt it together using special titanium hardware.
30:25Every titanium bolt has the Pagani logo etched on it.
30:28I mean, that's the kind of attention to detail that you don't see anywhere else.
30:32The obsession with details comes with a hefty price tag.
30:36The Pagani is the most expensive car in the world.
30:39It's a car that costs more than $100,000.
30:41The obsession with details comes with a heady price.
30:46A single titanium bolt costs 68 euros,
30:51and the Wira uses 1,200 bolts.
30:56Each is lined up precisely.
30:59Titanium bolts that are all indexed in a certain way
31:02with the Pagani logo laser etched in them.
31:04A single set of titanium bolts is worth over 81,000 euros,
31:10three times the average yearly salary in Italy.
31:13You sort of get the feeling that Horatio Pagani wants to use
31:15the best, most expensive materials on his car.
31:17It's almost like the guy is looking for challenges for himself.
31:21The front sub-assembly also carries two of the Wira's carbon-ceramic Brembo brakes.
31:26We equip our vehicle with carbon-fibre brakes.
31:29We have used the carbon-fibre brakes
31:31because the performance is higher than standard brakes, let me say.
31:36The 380-millimetre carbon-ceramic brakes give the Wira awesome stopping power.
31:41We can stop our car from 300 kilometres per hour to zero
31:45in less than seven seconds.
31:47And a single brake disc is one-tenth the length of an entire Volkswagen Beetle.
31:53Typically, a car with a really, really great braking system
31:56has four times the braking power of the engine.
32:00Four times the Wira's V12 engine is equal to almost 3,000 horsepower.
32:05That's nearly two megawatts of energy,
32:07enough juice to power a thousand houses.
32:11It's taken Horatio Pagani seven long years
32:15to bring his newest hypercar creation to life.
32:17But when you're building automotive perfection,
32:20for nearly a decade,
32:21Horatio Pagani has been preparing to replace one of the first hypercars.
32:27His response is the Wira,
32:29a machine that can blast from zero to 100 kilometres per hour
32:34in just 3.2 seconds,
32:37thanks to an AMG V12 engine.
32:42The 730-horsepower V12 is bolted to the Wira's monocoque chassis
32:49during rear sub-assembly installation.
32:52There's no clock ticking or rush to get the job done.
32:55Each piece is hand-fitted and then refitted until it's perfect.
33:01Even though putting the Wira together is a slow and methodical process,
33:05shifting the machine is not.
33:08The transmission switches gears in 60 milliseconds.
33:12Half the time it would take light to travel around the Earth's equator.
33:18The Wira has a seven-speed, single-clutch automated manual.
33:21Basically, it's a manual that is mechanised and robotised,
33:25and it comes from the same company that builds Formula One gearboxes.
33:28Unlike many high-end supercars,
33:30the Wira doesn't use a double-clutch transmission.
33:33The official company line is that a dual-clutch unit would have been too heavy.
33:38When Pagani engineers first study their transmission options,
33:42they discover that a dual-clutch transmission
33:44adds 70 kilograms to the machine,
33:48almost double the single-clutch transmission's weight.
33:52It's a single-clutch, and that means rough shifts.
33:55You could probably argue that getting beat up a little bit inside the car
33:58is what it's about.
34:02The team shaves weight on another piece of the drivetrain as well,
34:06the titanium handmade exhaust.
34:08It weighs a mere 10 kilograms.
34:11You see that exhaust, and it wraps around,
34:13and it comes into these really special mufflers.
34:15You don't see these mufflers on regular cars.
34:18These look like motorcycle mufflers.
34:21The exhaust is handmade, and yet another piece of metal artwork.
34:26While work continues on both ends of the machine,
34:29other craftsmen focus on the interior...
34:49...where the Wira's aeronautical inspiration is immediately apparent.
34:53When you're inside the car, all the switches are big toggle switches,
34:56and you feel like you're in the cockpit of a jet
34:58flipping some missile defense or something.
35:11One of the key elements is the openly exposed shifter.
35:15The details in the Wira are almost like an animal anatomy lesson.
35:19He's pulled away all the fat, he's pulled away all the muscle,
35:22and you just see the sinews, and that's what you see in the shifter.
35:24The sculptural shifter unit features 60 individual components,
35:29and each is on display.
35:31You see all these parts that you'd never ever see in a normal car
35:33because they're covered by a console, which is covered by leather.
35:36He's stripped all of that away,
35:37and you see the bare mechanism, which is just beautiful.
35:40Even the switchgear is unique-looking.
35:43The gas pedal is beautiful, and the linkage that it moves,
35:46nothing you'd ever see anywhere else.
35:48The switchgear imitates clarinet keys.
35:51It's just obsessive, really.
35:53Honestly, this cabin is pure concept art.
35:56This should never be in a real car because it's too beautiful.
35:59The most expensive, best cars in the world are never like this,
36:02where every single piece is a piece of art.
36:05The analog instrument gauges are a focal point.
36:08Each dial is handcrafted just 35 kilometers away in Bologna, Italy.
36:13The gauge cluster is something that looks like it was made by, like, Rolex.
36:17The fact that the gauges look like a watch face is no accident.
36:21They actually are.
36:23Chronograph manufacturer Patek Philippe uses it to make watch faces.
36:28A set of four gauges costs nearly 7,100 euros.
36:33The gauges, they've got a very retro aircraft kind of look,
36:37you know, stuff that was functional 70 years ago,
36:39but today just looks really cool.
36:41The details in the dashboard are equaled by the distinctiveness of the wirer's key.
36:46I mean, look at that. It's a billet aluminum piece of gorgeous art
36:50with an unlock and lock button on it.
36:52Pull it apart, that's the part of the key you shove in.
36:54Paretio Pagani's obsession with weight reduction
36:57can be seen in each and every part of the wirer,
37:00even the stereo speakers.
37:02The units are built by Sonos Faber,
37:05a famed audiophile company located near Vicenza, Italy.
37:08The company's name loosely translates to handmade sound.
37:13A pair of their household speakers costs up to 157,000 euros.
37:18The main challenge in the Pagani was to stay within a certain amount of weight
37:22because, of course, you have an extreme high-performance car
37:25and the performance is about the ratio between the total weight
37:28and the power of the engine.
37:30The Faber system features 1,200 watts of power,
37:34which is roughly four times the power in an ordinary home stereo.
37:37The techniques we use for the wirer is something unique.
37:40To reproduce, we wanted to achieve the maximum possible quality.
37:43The task was the weight.
37:44To remove weight, the team focuses on using carbon fiber materials,
37:48just like the wirer's monocoque frame.
37:50We are using carbon fiber for the cone.
37:53It's a special sandwich of material
37:55and we use it for the rigidity and for the weight, of course.
38:00We started from a blank sheet of paper
38:03and designed all the parts inside to match perfectly with the door.
38:08Those doors are as eye-catching as any in the hypercar universe.
38:13You can pull up anywhere in a DeLorean or a Gullwing or a Pagani
38:17and you open the doors and traffic stops.
38:20Inside the final assembly facility,
38:22each Gullwing door is carefully installed bolt by bolt.
38:26If you're going to do a parlor trick like Gullwing doors,
38:29a supercar or hypercar is the best place to do it
38:31because there is no such thing as kitschy or gaudy when it comes to these cars.
38:35The more over-the-top, the better.
38:37And frankly, Gullwing doors are about as over-the-top as it gets.
38:39After three months of nearly fanatical attention to detail,
38:43a brand-new wirer is finally ready for the real world.
38:48Pagani is a craftsman and everything he builds is so detailed.
38:53Every little part, you get the feeling that somebody really thought about it
38:56and stressed over it and put their life into.
38:58It's kind of priceless and, you know, here you have something you can drive.
39:02Nearly half of all the wirers will eventually end up in Asia.
39:05Another 30% are destined for the United States.
39:08Yet no matter which country a machine calls home,
39:11there's only one place a wirer is meant to be.
39:14Basically, this is a street-going Le Mans prototype.
39:16It's got Active Aero on it, it's got four ailerons,
39:19two in the front, two in the back, that react to what the car's doing.
39:22The wirer's Active Aero system helps keep it glued to the ground.
39:27The idea behind the ailerons is simple.
39:28If the flaps go up, they use the wind to push the car down.
39:31The system kicks in between 100 and 280 kilometres per hour
39:36to stabilise the car.
39:38Over 50 miles an hour to stabilise the car and create a little bit of downforce,
39:41all four come up about 10 degrees.
39:44In the corners, the flaps deploy to keep the car planted in the turn.
39:48When you're going into corners, they can pop up to 20,
39:50just to push down on the car and help it turn.
39:53During heavy braking, the system activates again,
39:56this time to generate additional braking force.
39:59And under braking, they pop up to 40 degrees as kind of a parachute.
40:03The wirer's Active Aerodynamics package gets the attention,
40:07but the machine's power-to-weight ratio is even more impressive.
40:11In terms of power-to-weight,
40:12there's no question the Wira is at the top of its game.
40:15There are very few cars that have this much power, this little weight,
40:18and are ultimately this fast.
40:20The Wira weighs a mere 1,350 kilograms.
40:24The Wira isn't a heavy car.
40:26It's 3,200 pounds and it's got this huge six-litre Mercedes V12.
40:30It's not light either.
40:31And the Wira still manages to weigh 3,200 pounds,
40:34basically because it's all carbon fibre.
40:37Pagani's obsession with weight reduction pays off.
40:40The Wira is an astounding 590 kilograms lighter than a Bugatti Veyron.
40:46Yeah, 3,200 pounds isn't a lot.
40:48It's basically a little bit heavier than something like a Volkswagen Jetta,
40:51like a typical four-door economy car.
40:53And this car has 720 horsepower and weighs that much.
40:58Driving the Wira is a high-speed, artistic experience unlike any other.
41:04If there's anything the Italians do better, it's theatre.
41:06The doors fly open, there are ailerons when you hit the brakes.
41:09The car opens up like a clamshell.
41:11It's there to say, look at me.
41:13It's a very fast and dramatic performance.
41:16The acceleration is smooth, like when you're sitting on the runway in a jet
41:20and they hammer it for take-off.
41:22The astonishing acceleration has a unique sound, too.
41:27The soundtrack is not like you're used to.
41:29You expect a big, loud, thundering exhaust,
41:31but this is really like sitting on top of a jet engine.
41:34A jet engine with roots in the highest levels of automotive racing.
41:38You've got a lot of race technology in here.
41:40Single-clutch automated gearbox, carbon ceramic brakes,
41:43something that F1 uses in a different form.
41:47The racing-inspired tech catapults the machine
41:50to a nearly unheard-of 372-kilometre-per-hour top speed.
41:55Yet the Wira's speed blasts right past its scarcity.
42:00I've probably driven 2,000 cars in the last couple of years.
42:03I never even thought I'd see a Pagani in person.
42:06That's how rare this car is.
42:07I've worked in the industry for 14 years
42:09and I'd never driven a Wira until today.
42:12The only other Pagani I've ever seen was at the Geneva show
42:16when they introduced the Wira a few years ago.
42:19This isn't just a fast car. It's an experience.
42:23That experience starts with a base price of €850,000,
42:28has 730 horsepower
42:31and can hit a top speed of 372 kilometres per hour.
42:35There's actually a couple of design elements
42:37that I think will become really Pagani icons
42:40that you're going to see.
42:42The four exhaust pipes, the four headlights
42:45and something else that's really neat is the side-view mirrors.
42:48Part sculpture and part jet fighter
42:51and a machine destined to inspire
42:53the next generation of automotive enthusiasts.
42:56The world's most perfect woman,
42:58where every angle and everything is just art and perfect
43:00and everything she wears is perfect,
43:02whether she's wearing it or it's on the floor.
43:08It's a machine that is a testament
43:10to one man's vision for automotive perfection.
43:14There's definitely some ego to it,
43:16but you know what? The guy started his own supercar company.
43:19That's not something that happens every day.
43:20Rayo Shibagani not only built a supercar, he built a hypercar,
43:23one of the most expensive in the world,
43:25one of the most finely detailed in the world
43:27and he made a successful business out of it.
43:29When you pull off that kind of success, you've kind of earned it.