Top Gear Returns for 19th Season, Pagani Huayra Smashes Ariel Atom V8 Lap Record

Some say that it’s getting a bit old inserting the “some say” joke in Top Gear stories, so we’ll just get down to business. As you may probably have heard, the world’s most (in)famous TV car show is back for its 19th season.

Even though the three hosts teased us about what was about to come, and after watching them for so long, we’ve come to expect almost everything, the season premiere that aired on Sunday, 27 January on UK’s BBC Two managed to throw quite a surprise.

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Pagani Huayra and Ferrari F12berlinetta Race Each Other on the Track

Two if Italy's finest and newest supercars, the Pagani Huayra and the Ferrari F12berlinetta, came together at the Autodromo di Modena racetrack for a day of testing and high-speed chases, courtesy of Germany's SportAuto magazine.

The Huayra makes do with a mid-mounted 6.0-litre bi-turbocharged V12 engine sourced from Mercedes-Benz's AMG division, rated at 720hp (730PS) and 1,000Nm (737 lb-ft) for 0-100km/h (62mph) acceleration time of 3.3 seconds and a top speed of 360km/h (224mph).

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Purple Carbon Pagani Huayra with Gold Rims Won't go by Unnoticed

It’s safe to say that nine of out 10 people will get the Pagani Huayra's name wrong (include us in that group), but few if any will mistake it for anything else on the road today.

As impressive as it may be, there are some ways to make the Huayra stand out even more from the crowd, namely by individualizing the car's appearance.

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Journo Takes a Pagani Huayra for a Tire-Burning Spin on a Twisty Road

Not that we need an excuse to show you another video of Horacio Pagani's V12-powered monster, but truth to be said, it's not often that you see a very, very expensive and exotic supercar like the Huayra being thrashed around a public road by someone other than its owner or if it's a press car, a company test driver.

In this case, said driver happened to be a Greek journalist from Drive Magazine who had the rather unique opportunity of jumping behind the wheel of the $1.4 million Huayra without having someone (as in a company official) taking the passenger seat to observe him.

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Huayra! Watch Pagani's Chief Test Driver in Some Rocking Action

If there is one person in the world you would like to take you out for a spin in the new Huayra, or any other Pagani model for that matter, it's Davide Testi, the Italian firm's official test driver who has racked up more miles in the car than anyone else has.

A one John Jack had the privilege of seeing Testi manhandling [sic] the exotic supercar from the relative comfort of the passenger seat during a trip in Italy and was also kind enough to share the experience with the rest of us through a video that you can enjoy right past the break.

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The Uninspiring Silence of an Audi R8 e-Tron vs The Screaming Sounds of a Pagani Zonda R at the 'Ring

Call us old fashion, but we believe that a sports car has to arouse all your senses with its acceleration, speed, handling, looks and of course, sounds.

The Audi R8 is by all means a sharp looking and handling automobile that will likely be fast even in e-tron guise, which is Audi talk for its pure-electric powertrain that uses two electric motors on each axle.

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Larger-Than-Life Pagani Meeting with Eleven Zondas and One Huayra

With only a handful of Pagani cars being hand built every year since the founding of the company in the 1990s, any meeting of two or more models of the Modena-based automaker is something worth talking about.

Now, seeing eleven Pagani Zondas and one Huayra gather at the same place at the same time is nothing less of extraordinary.

Do we need to say more to convince you to hop over the break to watch the two videos from the Pagani owners meet in Italy?

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Pagani's New 720hp Huayra Video Reviewed Again

As time goes by, more and more publications are getting some quality seat time behind the wheel of Pagani's newest exotic supercar, the cumbersomely named Huayra.

In this latest video, we see CAR magazine's deputy editor Ben Barry driving the car that replaces the famed Zonda around Pagani's headquarters in Modena, Italy.

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