The Pagani Huayra Anima is a 6.0-litre V12 hypercar with a 7spd manual gearbox

This is a new Pagani Huayra. It is called the Pagani Huayra Anima, that latter suffix the Italian word for ‘soul’. It is the third and final ‘Huayra 70’, and it is, at heart, a V12-engined ultra-rare Italian super-hyper-thingy with a seven-speed manual gearbox and rear-wheel-drive.

That’s its heart, but its body? Well, that’s a different matter. Designed in collaboration with its new owner, Pagani describes the Anima with such zingers like “essential harmony”, “profound passion” and “a name that embodies the desire to give shape to something born in the deepest imagination of a child”. Righty-ho then.

And that shape is… well, it’s not as clean as a regular Huayra, nor as timeless as a Zonda, that’s for sure. There are many creases and indentations and affectations. Along with a huge Le Mans-spec roof scoop flowing into that prototype-esque rear wing.

And then comes stuff like the blue eyeliner around the headlights, the wheels, the splitters, the wing and other details. Indeed it’s a special shade dubbed ‘Azzurro Metallizzato’ and ‘Blue Inchiostrato’, which we take to meaning ‘quite blue’.

You’ll find more stuff like solid-milled aluminium componentry, and a beige-y/milky interior leather surrounding Pagani’s usual exquisitely detailed switchgear and cabin instrumentation. Special place to be, that’s for sure.

With special underpinnings too, albeit ones you’ve already seen. It’s the same carbon-titanium/’carbo-triax’ tub you’ll find in any other Huayra, with those new carbon fibre body panels, adaptive dampers, Brembo brakes, and the not-so-small matter of a 6.0-litre twin-turbocharged Mercedes-AMG V12 punching out 852 very turbocharged horsepowers and 811 torques.

The 0-62mph time? Who cares, it’s more than fast enough, especially considering it’ll top out at 217mph. Also Pagani hasn’t actually told us the 0-62mph time, likely because… it’s more than fast enough.

No, this time it’s with feeling. “For the third and final example of the Huayra 70, we accompanied the client for over a year on a unique customisation journey, defined by listening, research, dialogue, and interpretation,” said Lorenzo Kerkoc, Pagani designer.

“We sought to understand his personality, his memories, and how he imagined this vehicle, translating them into a vision that was authentically his. A path inspired by the dream he harboured since childhood: to one day create a special car together with Horacio Pagani.”