Horacio Pagani has long been an innovator. The Argentine-Italian engineer can be credited with restyling the Lamborghini Countach to create the striking 25th Anniversary edition. He was also a driving force behind the marque experimenting with composite technology. While Kevlar and carbon fibre-reinforced panels would ultimately make their way onto production cars, the pioneering, lightweight Countach Evoluzione sadly remained a one-off prototype. With his request for the company to purchase an autoclave turned down, Horacio had the motivation to establish Pagani Automobili in his own image.

The first model devised by Pagani, the Zonda, was adored throughout its many evolutions between 1999 and 2019. Among its most celebrated variants was the track-only Zonda R of 2007, which would prove to be a rolling testbed for the technological developments that later shaped Pagani’s second model series: the Huayra, announced in 2011.

By 2016, various subtypes of the Huayra had paved the way for the more aggressive, limited-production Huayra BC, which made its debut at that year’s Geneva International Motor Show. The BC—offered in both Coupé and later Roadster form as presented here—was a personal tribute to Benny Caiola, an early investor in Pagani and the marque’s very first customer.

The BC Coupe received a boost to 764 horsepower, channelled exclusively to the rear wheels via a single-clutch, paddle-shifted, seven-speed sequential manual transmission. Despite the already lightweight nature of the standard Huayra, Pagani engineers managed to shave off more than 130 kilograms for the BC through the introduction of a revolutionary “Carbo-Triax” composite material, reportedly 50 per cent lighter and 20 per cent stiffer than conventional carbon fibre. Additional savings came from a new titanium exhaust system, a stripped-down interior, and redesigned alloy wheels.

In 2019, Pagani followed up with the Huayra Roadster BC—a more hardcore, track-focused evolution of the Huayra Roadster, limited to just 40 units. While visually related to the BC Coupé, it shares few aerodynamic components and features an extensively modified version of the 6.0-litre twin-turbocharged V-12 engine, now tuned to deliver 800 horsepower and 1,050 Nm of torque.

Weighing in at just 1,250 kilograms, the BC Roadster is slightly heavier than its Coupé counterpart but still 30 kilograms lighter than the standard Roadster. Thanks to a large, fixed rear wing and active aerodynamic panels, it generates a remarkable 500 kilograms of downforce at speeds above 250 km/h. Enhancing this is a titanium exhaust system with novel flaps in the catalytic converters that redirect exhaust gases to underbody elements—emulating the blown diffuser concept once used in Formula 1.

Offered today from the collection of its original owner with 253 kilometres driven since new, this Swiss-market Huayra Roadster BC is the 33rd of 40 examples produced. It wears stellar Glossy Blue Francia and Crystal Clear Carbon paintwork over Alcantara and New Jeans Leather upholstery with over €350,000 (approx. 325,000 CHF) worth of options.

Breath-taking to behold, both as an object of automotive art and a driving machine, the Pagani Huayra served to solidify Pagani’s place in the hotly contested marketplace for bespoke hypercars, proving that the Zonda was not a one-hit wonder. Few enthusiasts can claim ownership to a Pagani, and the purchase of this Huayra Roadster BC would allow them into a small circle of enthusiasts bound together by Horacio Pagani’s vision for uniting art and science as one.