2017 Pagani Huayra RoadsterHandout When the final North American Ford Taurus is produced later this year, it will mark the end of a nameplate. Sure, dealers and mechanics – even some tuners – will work on the Taurus perhaps forever, repairing and modifying it, but Ford itself will no longer have anything to do with it. Technically, this is how a nameplate dies. (At least in North America, as the Taurus lives on in China.)  And it’s in this sense, technically, that the Pagani Huayra and Zonda will remain immortal—for now. In a recent feature interview with Top Gear, founder Horacio Pagani explained how the Zonda and Huayra will be kept forever young by Pagani’s commitment to ‘modify’ any existing model should the owner request it. On existing Zondas, if a customer asks, we can do it,” Pagani explains in the interview. “But only modifying an existing chassis. One of the latest trends is customers asking for one of the very first original Zonda chassis, to perform some modifications on—and then buying another one to fit their own tastes.” And these aren’t mild modifications either. In Pagani’s own words, it’s “er, very expensive.” Right now, a customer who owns one of the very first Huayras has been asking to do some special additions, modifying it,” he said. “We will deliver that in May 2019. I mean, we’re talking about modifications which can cost $1 million, not just a few hundreds or thousands. It’s effectively a new car…” So if you’ve got a Huayra or Zonda or one of each, and the millions of dollars required, by all means, have it dipped in Pagani’s pool of Eternal Automotive Youth. In this way, the car may live forever. You, on the other hand, just like the Ford Taurus, are definitely going to die.
Origin: Pagani will keep Zonda, Huayra alive forever by modifying existing models