And because, well, you know there are 24 hours in a day, you design your own sinks and liquid soap dispensers for the toilet in, you guessed it, carbon-fibre because someone might have forgotten how special your cars are in the few minutes they took to hit the loo. Then you buy back a whole bunch of your own cars - all the Zonda Cinques, Zonda Rs, and Zonda Fs that you couldn’t afford to keep when you were just starting out - at double and treble what you sold them for just so you can build a museum to the cars you don’t love. Article content The interior in the Pagani Huayra BC Photo by Pagani AutomobiliĪnd, because your passion still refuses to abate, you then build an entire new state-of-the-art factory, come up with yet another, even more high-tech carbon-fibre formulation - Carbo-Triax HP62 - that lets you, for as far as I can see, build the first roadster in history that is both stiffer and lighter than the coupe it is based on.
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This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Then you somehow manage to convince the ultimate in teutonic bean-counters, Mercedes-Benz, to homologate its great, hulking twin-turbo V emissions certification - a hugely expensive endeavour the company isn’t even attempting for its own lineup - just so they can sell you, what, 50 engines a year. So you design an automotive interior that belongs in the Guggenheim with a completely exposed gear shift mechanism - look here for what true automotive ingenuity looks like - that somehow makes 67 pieces of chrome and steel move in such unison as to make a Swan Lake -worthy pas de deux look like a drunken stumble in the park. That would have been enough for most folks to call it a day, but not for somebody who, I’ll remind you, doesn’t love his cars. Then, in no specific order, you start one company (Modena Design, which conceives everything from ski boots to automotive dashboards), open yet another company (the now-famous Pagani Automobili), engineer a way to weave titanium into carbon-fibre (which makes it both stronger and less brittle) and then, just for good measure, design your first car (the epoch-changing Zonda), which pretty much every scribe of the day agrees is the greatest supercar of its time. So then you buy your own autoclave - that you’re still using today, by the way-when just a few years earlier you were living in a tent and riding a bicycle to work.
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You may use a different browser or device to view this in full screen. Yes, if you’re thinking that walking away from Lamborghini is, as I intimated, a little mad, you’re not alone.įull Screen is not supported on this browser version. And when they dismiss the whole thing with a wave of “If Ferrari doesn’t have an autoclave, why should we have one?” you, well, quit. They, if you’re following this story at all, obviously do not. Then, after impressing the higher-ups so much that you’re working on the LM002 and the Evoluzione version of the iconic Countach within just a couple of years, you decide to quit because, well, those same higher-ups wouldn’t buy you an autoclave to bake the carbon-fibre that you’re absolutely dead-nuts positive will be the future of supercars. I guess they thought you were just a health nut when you bicycled into work every day. So then, you meander over to Lamborghini and they too offer you a job - obviously Juan Manuel’s recommendation carried some serious weight - but you have to live in a tent for the first few months because you’re basically itinerant.
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If that’s not audacious enough, imagine showing up on Enzo Ferrari’s doorstep when you’re 28, armed with only a letter from fellow Argentine - not to mention perhaps the greatest race car driver of all time - Juan Manuel Fangio, and then turning down the Scuderia’s race team because you want to design cars right from the get-go.
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