New Italian exotic news is coming thick and fast. Ferrari unleashed the FF yesterday, and Lamborghini has announced production plans for the Estoque saloon as well as the Sesto Elemento, and of course the eagerly awaited Murcielago flagship replacement.
One of the most hotly anticipated performance cars of 2011, another Italian supercar, has just been leaked onto the internet, and rendered its expensively shot teaser films rather a waste of time. The successor to the Zonda, the Pagani Huayra, has been spilled onto the web following a magazine cover shoot, and while styling is of course the most subjective aspect of car preference, it has to be said that the new car is much less of a looker than the Zonda.
The test hacks seen patrolling around Italian country roads were intially forgiven as camoflauged unfinished examples but as these first pictures display, the new twin turbo V12 Pagani isn't as coherent as its father. It enjoys the same quad headlamps, trademark tailpipes and agressively styled stance, but it remains nowhere near as classic as the original Zonda in any of its forms.
As more (official) pictures get released, along with performance figures and initial drive impressions, the Huayra may well grow on petrolheads, but as yet it's pretty hard to swallow, and especially ironic since as Ferrari regains its styling mojo, Pagani has well and truly dropped the ball.
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