Bask in the gorgeous details of this Pagani Huayra Tempesta

Yeah. Y’know how there’s that common conceit that ‘all modern cars are boring’? Well, pipe down there, elbow patches; Pagani wants a word. 

Is there such a thing as a ‘standard’ Huayra? Or Pagani, for that matter? In any case, this isn’t a standard Huayra.

It has something called the ‘Pacchetto Tempesta’ – 'Storm Package' - and it confers some serious benefits, at a very serious price.

The Tempesta pack costs £126,000, and gets you a trick aero package developed with Dallara, lightweight rims and a hand-welded titanium exhaust.

The gist is that famed chassis developers Dallara collaborated with Pagani to work on the front splitter, rear diffuser and underfloor aero profile. The revisions were so successful that Pagani developed four-way adjustable shocks with Ohlins, in order to deal with the new demands of a high-downforce setup.

Well, a shock absorber – also known as a damper – works in two directions: compression and rebound (or return). If you can adjust the amount of damping on both the compression stroke and return, you could say that it’s two-way adjustable. But four way? Sounds like madness, right? Shocks don’t work in four directions.

What shocks can do, however, is work quickly or slowly – it stands to reason that the way a shock behaves over a sharp pothole will be different than a long undulation in the road. This is known as high-speed and low-speed. And some very good shocks can be adjusted for high- and low-speed compression, as well as high- and low-speed rebound. 

Now you know.

Indeed. Embedded within is a 6.0-litre, twin-turbo V12 sourced of course, from Mercedes-AMG, tuned here to produce 720bhp and 737lb ft of torque. Incredible.

Correct. Please admire this exposed gear linkage. Mm.

On top of the Tempesta pack, the Huayra has four independently operating flaps on each corner of the car. They're controlled by the ECU, and instantly adjust to reduce drag, serve up more downforce or just rein in the body roll depending on how heavy your right foot is and your apex-clipping abilities.

Oi. You asked. And now it’s our turn to ask you a question – have you actually been reading, or have you been ogling the incredible, Disneyland-for-grownups engineering and styling?

Oh yes. The leatherwork throughout the Huayra is something else entirely, from the door to the seats. But finding specially fitted luggage - a $20,000 option on this car, no less - and made from the same leather? It makes us wonder what to keep in there – Montblanc fountain pens, perhaps, or a portable watch winder for our collection of limited-edition Vacheron Constantins and Audemars Piguets.

Indeed. But it’s the little details like these, we find, that grab you by the left ventricle and turn a ‘Yeah, that’s a nice-looking automobile’ into ‘Oh my sweet lord, I must find a way to rub my face on that.’

Hey, if the shoe fits.

It's been "well looked-after since day one," according to RM Sotheby's, and has covered just 640 miles from new from a single owner in California.

(In fact, it was the first customer car to be delivered to North America.)

RM Sotheby's is estimating a top price of around $2.8 million when it's offered at next week's Monterey sale. So let's say £2.1m.