If you have a million dollars to spend, you want something distinct - the 700 horsepower, twin-turbocharged 12-cylinder carbon-titanium Huayra supercar by Pagani is certainly that. Take that, you Bugatti Veyron and Lamborghini Reventon commoners!
But don't get out your checkbook just yet, the U.S. is blocking its sale because it doesn't have child-safe airbags.
Obviously if you are going 200 MPH and 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds you should have airbags for your kids. Though if you spent a million dollars on a car, do you have kids? The company claimed it would undergo undue financial strain putting them in but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration believed they were just goofing off in writing their waiver application and never made a real effort.
The company says the Huayra will now not go on sale until 2013 and even then you will be one of only 5 people in the US to own it. The car was otherwise compliant, meeting crash safety standards for the US and Europe, necessary for a car that takes off like a rocket and is named for the ancient Andean wind god Aymara Huayra Tata.
U.S. Blocks $1 million Italian Supercar By Peter Valdes-Dapena CNNMoney.com
