Pagani Automobili: 25 years of passion

It was 1992, when, on a day that could have been like any other, Horacio Pagani showed Maurizio Ferrari a wasteland. From there was born one of the most passionate stories of recent years, that of Pagani Automobili, which has lasted for 25 years. “I had been in Lamborghini, Chrysler’s American company for a few years already – says Maurizio Ferrari – the Gulf War had changed everything, the company had seen almost all its orders canceled and I, like many others, in 1991, was laid off Horacio tells me about his project, the car he had in mind, the life he wanted to lead. He told me that if the company fired me at the end of the redundancy fund, I could go to him to build the dream together. The builders of supercars were all in crisis. I still don’t know what went through my mind and why I believed him, it all started like this”.
In 25 years Pagani has turned the company into a creative atelier where a community of people recognize each other, share hands and thoughts, face the great complications of mechanics, handle beauty and find mutual inspiration. “The people who work for us do it with passion and passion is contagious – explains Leonardo Pagani – those who enter one of our cars can see it in the attention to detail and experience it every time they drive. Our customers do not buy just a car, but all that palpable set of emotions and affection that each of us has put into doing our part. For this reason, for many customers a single Pagani is not enough and they come back to buy another one”. Horacio’s passion, who pursued his dream to turn it into reality, quickly involved his children as well.
“My brother and I were lucky enough to have been involved in the company right away – says Christopher Pagani – I was a child and my afternoons were spent playing and browsing in the workshop which, moreover, was exactly on the floor below my room. For me a world full of fantastic things.
I didn’t know it, but I was already learning what my life would be like.”
The automotive world knew and fully understood the potential of Horacio Pagani on the occasion of the 1999 Geneva Motor Show, when the Zonda, the iconic hypercar, made his debut among the great manufacturers. Since then, Pagani has applied to his creations the same innovative spirit of Leonardo da Vinci, his source of inspiration. After the Zonda, made in a series of different variants, even in a barchetta version, came the Huayra, where it used active aerodynamics. Today the tradition continues with the Utopia, thanks to the built-in retractable rollbar and a V12 6.0 biturbo, made exclusively by Mercedes-AMG, which can deliver an impressive 864 HP.

Source: Ansa

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