Italian Pagani car to start selling his $ 1 million, 700-horsepower supercar Huayra in the U. S. later this year, but federal safety regulators have said Pagani has applied for an exemption from the federal auto safety regulations that require child-safe "advanced" Not so fast . "" Airbag, on the grounds that in accordance with the rules would cause "substantial economic hardship," according to documents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NHTSA deny the request, essentially blocking the car from sale in the U.
S. , because it failed to show that installing Pagani airbags in cars twin-turbocharged 12-carbon-titanium cylinder will cause the company's financial burden is not true. In addition, the Italian car manufacturer does not indicate that serious efforts have been made to comply, the agency said. The security agencies sometimes provide an automatic exemption from the special security while rUles, especially for cars that are planning to sell only a small number of Huayra cars. Pagani created as part of the car manufacturers plan to enter the U.
S. market. The car was engineered and crash tested to meet safety standards in the United States and Europe. Pagani insisted on going to sell cars here, just not in 2012 as planned. Huayra will now be sold at some time in 2013, a spokesman for Sanaz Bakhtiari Paganai said.
Advanced airbags are designed to sense when a child or small adult in the vehicle and adjust the power that they deploy accordingly. Early airbags were found to injure – and even kill – children. Much small Huayra structure, especially the area around the driver, made of strong, lightweight titanium which is called carbon. Fuel tank, made of "composite materials and ballistics are different," integrated into the body just behind the cabin, according futureAt company. Million dollars from the car about 3,000 kilograms, Pagani Boazts that Huayra is the lightest car in its class, enabling it to go from zero to 60 miles per hour in about 3.
5 seconds. With seven-figure prices that will compete in the rarified field of car prices as the Bugatti Veyron is Huayra recently completed the sale goes as Huayra is preparing to enter the market, or quickly sold out Reventon. With total of 60 employees Lamborghini, Pagani small factory can only produce so many cars, especially hand-made, so the initial sales in the U. S. should be limited to about five cars per year during 2012, automaker said in February.
After that, the planned plant expansion will allow for the sale of as many as 10 cars in here. The Huayra, pronounced "why-rah," named after the ancient god of the wind Andean Aymara Huayra Tata. View this article on CNNMoney. .