In 2018, two Pagani collectors asked Horacio Pagani for a long-tail Huayra: clean lines and an elegant stance, like the 1960s Le Mans racers. Four years later, the Codalunga coupé arrived—just five worldwide—and won the Design Award at the 2023 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este.

With the coupé’s story told, the collectors sent in a new wish: open that elegance to the sky. Horacio agreed, and the project returned to Grandi Complicazioni, the special-projects division. Its head, Lorenzo Kerkoc, notes that 1950s and ’60s racers balanced performance and beauty almost poetically, before efficiency outran elegance. This time, the brief was speed with grace: no aero appendages, no side intakes—a body slipping quietly through the air.

Removing the roof made the car lighter. A new Carbo-Titanium and Carbo-Triax monocoque with reworked structures brings dry weight to 1,270 kg—ten less than the coupé. For shelter, a panoramic hardtop clips on, its clear polycarbonate panel drawing one unbroken line from windshield to tail: a perfect droplet seen from above. Six exhaust outlets are new—titanium below, ceramic-coated above—and the voice is still pure Pagani.

Unveiled on July 8, 2025, the Codalunga Speedster is limited to ten cars, each born from a one-to-one dialogue with its owner, homologated for road use worldwide and delivered from 2026. The 6.0-liter twin-turbo V12, developed with Mercedes-AMG, makes 864 PS with all 1,100 Nm on tap from 2,800 rpm. The 7-speed Xtrac gearbox comes as a sequential AMT or a pure manual—a rarity among today’s supercars—and this example pairs the V12 with the 7-speed manual gearbox.

Born from listening, with no limits to vision or desire, each Codalunga Speedster is a bespoke project, sculpted around a personal idea of beauty. Horacio likes to say, “A real client comes back again and again.” This car is the proof: the coupé dream fulfilled, old friends returned for a piece of sky. No towering wing, no aggression—only the elegant speed of the 1960s, wind included. Ten people can own one; the story belongs to every dreamer.