One-Off Manual Pagani Huayra Roadster 'Executor' Sells for $8.035M at RM Sotheby's MontereyMotoriousElizabeth PuckettMon, September 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTCAdd us on GoogleOne-Off Manual Pagani Huayra Roadster 'Executor' Sells for $8.035M at RM Sotheby's MontereyA bespoke, gearbox-swapping Pagani Huayra Roadster nicknamed "Executor" just became one of the most expensive Huayras ever to change hands, hammering for $8,035,000 at RM Sotheby's Monterey sale. The car crossed the block as part of The Driver's Philosophy Collection, and the listing photography and full specification breakdown come from RM Sotheby's own auction catalog.Commissioned through Southern California dealer O'Gara Coach and delivered in September 2024, Executor is one of a tiny handful of Pagani "in-house special" builds, cars that fall outside the regular production run and get whatever spec a wealthy client wants. What sets this particular roadster apart is its transmission. Rather than the transverse sequential gearbox nearly every Huayra uses, Executor was built around a seven-speed Xtrac manual transaxle with an exposed titanium shift gate, a setup that required an entirely different chassis tub to package. Fewer than half of Pagani's one-off commissions have gotten this treatment, making a stick-shift Huayra rarer than the car itself.Under the rear clamshell sits a hand-assembled 6.0-liter twin-turbo V-12, built for Pagani in Germany, tuned here to 846 horsepower and 774 lb-ft, more than the track-only Huayra R. Finished in exposed Vibrant Ink blue carbon fiber with Bianco Malta and Azzurro stripes, wearing a deeper front splitter, canards, and a towering rear wing, the car had covered just 53 miles when RM Sotheby's catalogued it for Monterey.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Huayra name traces back to 2011, when it replaced the Zonda as Horacio Pagani's flagship, introducing active aerodynamic flaps controlled by the car's ECU and ABS systems. A companion Roadster followed in 2017, cutting weight below the coupe's despite the open top and adding removable roof panels, and Pagani built just 100 of them through 2022. Special editions have kept trickling out ever since, including the track-focused Huayra R and a handful of open one-offs like this Executor. It's a similar formula to the bespoke Zonda commissions the factory has produced for its most loyal collectors, one-off cars built long after a model's official production run ended.This isn't the first manual Huayra Roadster to draw headlines. Motorious covered a similarly hand-shifted Roadster that traded for $6.9 million, and Pagani's Villa d'Este-bound Huayra R has shown that track-only variants command their own premium too. Against that backdrop, an $8.035 million result for a one-off with a bespoke gearbox and single-owner provenance looks less like an outlier and more like a data point in a fast-moving niche.Hypercars like the Huayra sit well outside the range that most price guides track closely, but the broader trend lines are still useful context. Hagerty's Valuation Tools track private sales, dealer transactions, and auction results across the collector market, and Hagerty's own reporting has noted Huayra variants such as the five-off Imola edition changing hands for more than $5 million even before the Utopia arrived to replace it. That kind of demand, for a model line Pagani has kept "dead" in name only for over a decade, suggests the newest one-off commissions will keep setting records as long as Horacio Pagani keeps building them.For buyers priced out of eight-figure one-offs, plenty of standard-production Huayra Roadsters still trade hands well below that mark, and Motorious has tracked several, including this Huayra Roadster listing, for anyone chasing the more attainable end of the lineup.AdvertisementAdvertisementEither way, this Executor is a reminder of how far the ceiling has moved for modern hypercars at Monterey Car Week. A brand-new-model roadster with 53 miles on the clock hammering above $8 million puts it in the same conversation as some of the six- and seven-figure Zonda and Huayra coupes that Motorious has covered for years, and it likely won't be the last one-off Pagani to test that ceiling.⚡️ Read the full article on MotoriousSign up for the Motorious Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.