Yahoo Autos Pagani Could Soon Help Other Carmakers Build Their Own Supercars
Italian supercar manufacturer Pagani is well known in the car community. It's one of the few supercar companies of the last few decades to successfully launch and attain legitimacy, building genuinely batty cars that combine one-of-a-kind design with remarkable, groundbreaking technology. And now, it seems, it's about to lend the expertise behind its craftsmanship to other brands: Modena Design — a company that initially helped build many important Pagani parts — is returning to life as a component manufacturer.
Horacio Pagani actually launched Modena Design in 1991, a year before he started his now-famous car brand. At the time its goal was to build high-end composite materials. Pagani once pushed hard for more carbon fiber usage at his previous job with Lamborghini before striking out on his own. As of September, however, Modena Design is spinning off as a CNC machining concern that will continue to provide parts for Pagani supercars — but also provide its expertise to other companies in the automotive, aerospace and biomedical fields.
Modena Design currently builds some 700 components for each new Pagani Utopia, enabling Pagani to make sure the quality of these parts remains as high as needed, since it has complete control. At the same time, it's now opening up its client list to other manufacturers.
That's good news. since just about every single thing one can see or touch in a Pagani looks and feels like a work of art. In fact, the teaser video surrounding Modena Design highlights how these aren't simply functional parts, but artistic expressions with a purpose.
Don't think for a second that the brand is just going to start stamping parts out like crazy, though. "There’s no room for mechanical repetition—no machine, however advanced, can replace the trained eye of a craftsman in capturing the finer details," Antonio Gerardi, COO of Modena Design, said in a release. "We firmly believe that excellence is the result of artisanal skills, where each component is hand-finished, a product of extraordinary dexterity and expertise honed through years of training and experience."
Considering that many high-end automotive brands license parts and technology from one another — for example, the engine in a Utopia is a Mercedes-AMG-sourced 6.0-liter V12 with around 850 horsepower — there's no doubt plenty of market among other companies who build supercars and hypercars for the high-end pieces Modena Design can make. We can't wait to see the results of this new venture.
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