Horacio Pagani is an Argentine-Italian automobile engineer and businessman, born in 1955 in Casilda, Argentina, the son of a baker from Italy. He built his first Formula 3 racing car by the age of twenty, then worked with Renault on racing car bodywork before moving to Italy in 1982 to join Lamborghini, where he rose from basic jobs to chief engineer and built the Countach Evoluzione concept. He pushed for in-house carbon fibre production, bought his own autoclave in 1987 and left in 1991 to found the composites consultancy Modena Design. In 1992 he founded Pagani Automobili Modena, whose first car, the Zonda, took seven years to complete and was followed by the Huayra. In 2025 the Polytechnic University of Milan gave him an honorary master's degree in design and engineering.
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Defining ContributionFounded the Italian automaker Pagani Automobili, whose first car was the Zonda, followed by the Huayra 1 Connections
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Horacio Pagani was born in Casilda, Argentina, to Luca and Maria Pagani.
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Horacio Pagani (born 10 November 1955) is an Argentine-Italian businessman and automobile engineer in the automotive industry.
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Horacio Pagani (born 10 November 1955) is an Argentine-Italian businessman and automobile engineer in the automotive industry.
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The first car he produced was the Zonda, which took seven years to complete, followed by the Huayra
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In 2025, Pagani received a Master’s degree ad honorem in Design & Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan.
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Horacio Pagani was born in Casilda, Argentina, to Luca and Maria Pagani.
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He tried to persuade Lamborghini to buy an autoclave so they could extend the production of the carbon parts for the Evoluzione.
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