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Pagani have a separate company dedicated to carbon composite manufacturing and consulting - they came up with the "carbotanium" bonded carbon composites and titanium used in the Huayra:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbotanium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagani_Huayra

Pagani make McLaren look mass market!

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Pagani cars also look like they've been designed by 11 year old boys on a sugar-high.

That's a bad thing? :-)

Obviously; anyone with standards prefers cars designed by 16 years olds on cough syrup high.

Not necessarily, but very few people can pull off THAT level ostentatiousness and keep a straight face.

I am glad we live in a world where such things can exist, but I wouldn't own one even if it were free.

people who drive around in cars like that don't have to keep a straight face. they're laughing all the way to the bank.

Carbotanium is my favorite canobtanium.

I wonder what McLaren can achieve when it puts its mind to reducing production costs?

They've said before that they have proprietary techniques that allow them to produce the CF for their road cars at scale more affordably.

Combine this with Tesla's acquisition of CF expertise, and I would wager that more CF is going to be used in electric vehicles in the near future, providing even greater range.

Bravo man, bravo.

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