Test driver wrecks $2.5 million Pagani Huayra supercar
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And you thought you had a bad day at work.
A test driver for Italian exotic carmaker Pagani wrecked one of the company’s $2.5 million prototypes in Germany last week.
The Aalen police department posted an image to Twitter on Friday of the camouflage pattern-wrapped car sitting among the shrubbery of an embankment in the town of Backnang, where local media reported the driver simply gave it too much gas and lost control.
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The car's speed at the time of the accident was not revealed.
A Pagani spokesman confirmed to Road &Track that it was in fact one of the company’s development vehicles and that neither the driver nor passenger of the two-seat vehicle was injured.
The car was apparently a new, higher performance version than the original carbon-fiber, 754 hp twin-turbocharged V12 model, which has a top speed of 210 mph.
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Police said the damage to the car was estimated to be on the order of several hundred thousand dollars.