New Pagani Alert! It’s the manual, V12-engined Huayra Codalunga Speedster

This is the Pagani Huayra Codalunga Speedster, and like its hard-topped sibling, it is a car that wears its appreciation to classic racing cars with pride.

It’s also a bit bonkers, carries a very modern V12, and is out of reach for almost everyone on planet Earth. So, you’re interested, right?

“The Huayra Codalunga Speedster is a tribute to those who imagine their sports car as an icon of lightness and momentum, shaped by essential lines that transcend time with ease,” said big boss Horacio Pagani.

Before we get to those lines, a note on what powers them. Yes, it’s a Huayra underneath, but we’re told this Codalunga Speedster features an “entirely new” monocoque, inside which lurks the very dark heart of a 6.0-litre V12.

Built, as ever, by AMG especially for Pagani, this 6.0-litre monster gets a pair of turbochargers and a sprinkling of madness to deliver 852bhp and 811lb ft of torque to the rear wheels. That’s a little more than the Codalunga coupe, and the same as the Utopia.

That’s matched to your choice of a seven-speed gearbox, in either automated manual guise, or full manual. Keeping it all in check are ‘Pagani by Brembo’ stoppers: 410mm discs/six-pots on the front, 390mm discs/four-pots on the back. There are adaptive dampers, variable-rate springs, and a dandy set of 20/21in front/rear alloys.

Speaking of dandy… yeesh. The lines echo the coupe’s – so a long, flowing and glorious tail harking back to sports prototypes from the Fifties and Sixties – only here the Speedster does without its sibling’s gullwing doors.

Which in turn gives this convertible a smoother, cleaner and more “continuous” roofline. That removable hardtop features a polycarbonate transparent section too when up, and when down? Acres of sky, of course.

There’s a new roll bar betwixt roof and long tail, that, says Pagani, creates a “cascading effect through the central tunnel, gear lever and dashboard”.

Speaking of the dash, it’s full-on 1960s in here – not in tech, but in feel. There are “hammered and hand-stitched” leathers, wood on the steering wheel and gearlever for full ye olde worlde racing vibes, and an “exclusive” fabric developed specially for this Speedster.

And Pagani’s Grandi Complicazioni division has developed this Speedster specially for just ten lucky customers for an undisclosed sum. Consider the coupe, of which only five were built, started from €7m a pop. Deliveries will begin in 2026.