The Pagani Huayra 70 Derecho is the second of three bespoke cars being built to celebrate founder Horacio Pagani's 70th birthday, revealed at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed
It is powered by a 6.0-litre twin-turbo AMG V12 producing around 852 hp, mated to a proper seven-speed manual gearbox with a traditional gated shifter
Finished in Pearl Orange and Inky Blue to reveal the fish-bone carbon weave, it was created by Pagani's Grandi Complicazioni division and shares only its doors and window frames with the standard Huayra

There is a story behind every Pagani, and the one behind the Huayra 70 Derecho begins in the late 1980s, when Horacio Pagani was working at Lamborghini and could not convince the company to invest seriously in carbon fibre technology. Lamborghini declined. Horacio left, founded Modena Design to specialise in composites, and eventually built an atelier of his own in 1999. Nearly three decades later, the car unveiled at Goodwood on July 7 is a reminder of what came from that decision, a machine so obsessively crafted in carbon that the paint was developed specifically to reveal it.

The Huayra 70 Derecho is the second of three special cars being built by Pagani's Grandi Complicazioni division to mark Horacio's 70th birthday. The first, the Trionfo, appeared earlier this year. The Derecho takes its name from a classified storm system, straight-line winds of extraordinary intensity, sudden and continuous in their force. It is a fitting name for a car that makes no compromise in any direction.

The exterior is finished in Pearl Orange and Inky Blue, a two-tone combination developed specifically to expose the intricate fish-bone weave of the carbon fibre beneath. Press photographs make the Pearl Orange read as flat brown. In person at Goodwood, it reads as something closer to caramel gold, shifting between warm amber and vivid orange depending on the angle and the light. The blue sections run along the lower body and through the interior monocoque, contributing to what Pagani describes as a perception of greater lightness. Solid-milled aluminium components, anodised in Glossy Titanium, appear across the bodywork and on the bespoke Huayra 70 titanium wheels, wrapped in bespoke Pirelli P Zero R tyres. The Huayra 70 shares only its doors and window frames with the standard Huayra; the front intakes are larger and more open, the lower DRLs are vertical rather than horizontal, and the rear wing is wider with two brake lights rather than one, flanked by new fins that extend the aerodynamic profile.

At the centre of all of it, both literally and philosophically, is a proper seven-speed manual gearbox with a traditional gated shifter. Not a dual-clutch with simulated pedal feel. Not a by-wire system that converts your hand movements into electronic signals. A real mechanical connection between the driver and the gearbox, paired with a 6.0-litre twin-turbocharged V12 sourced from Mercedes-AMG producing around 852 hp and 811 lb-ft of torque, all sent to the rear wheels. An electronic top speed limiter is set at 217.5 mph. Pagani does not publish a 0-60 figure; the driving experience is clearly the intended measurement.

Inside, Ceramic White leather meets Tricolore Blue, with Pearl Orange details on the 12 o'clock steering wheel marker and gear knob carrying the exterior theme into the cabin. The steering wheel, passenger-side dashboard, and air conditioning vents are finished in blue carbon fibre. Every switch, toggle, and speaker grille is milled from aluminium. The gated shifter sits where it belongs, exposed, physical, and deliberate. There are no touchscreens competing for your attention.

The Derecho joins the Huayra Codalunga Speedster and Huayra R at Pagani's Goodwood stand alongside a Zonda F Roadster, with both the Codalunga Speedster and the Huayra R with Tempesta package making dynamic runs up the hill. The third and final Huayra 70 is still to come. Given what the first two have looked like, the bar is set at an extraordinary height.