Most Pagani owners treat racking up miles as something to avoid. Bob, a Northern California enthusiast, treats it as the whole point. His Huayra Roadster, nicknamed Il Diavolo, just rolled past 100,000 kilometres, or roughly 62,000 miles. For context, that is enough distance to circle the entire planet two and a half times, in a car that most owners keep parked in climate-controlled garages, sometimes trading hands at multimillion dollar auctions.
Bob’s Il Diavolo is clearly not that kind of Pagani. Finished in exposed carbon fibre with a deep Rosso Vignola tint that looks almost black under low light, this Huayra Roadster was delivered to Bob in California back in March 2018. Under the rear glass sits a hand assembled 6.0-liter Mercedes-AMG twin-turbo V12, sending 764 horsepower to the rear wheels through a 7-speed automated manual gearbox.
Pagani built only 100 examples of the standard Roadster, every single one sold before it was even shown to the public. This particular car has become one of the highest mileage examples on the planet, and it got there not through neglect but through obsession with actually driving it.
Bob is something of an anomaly in hypercar circles. He is not a spreadsheet collector chasing appreciation curves. He shows up at Pagani Radunos annual meets uninvited (in the friendliest way possible) and has apparently driven his cars coast to coast across the US more than once. There is a story doing the rounds in enthusiast circles that his Instagram handle @1slocrx traces back to a Honda CRX he once raced in SCCA competition, which if true is a delightfully unglamorous origin story for a man now putting six figure mileage on a $3 million carbon fiber missile.
The milestone itself was marked with all the pomp you would expect from someone who treats a Pagani like a daily driver. Bob pulled over, snapped a photo with a Twix bar and a bottle of water, and captioned it with a promise to keep going. Somewhere in Switzerland, another red carbon Huayra Roadster named La Mia Più Bella has already crossed 126,000 km (just over 78,000 miles), so Bob has some catching up to do if bragging rights matter to him, though something tells us that’s not what keeps him going. Reliability was never supposed to be the Pagani’s strong suit. Bob seems determined to prove otherwise, one Twix bar at a time.
