Italian hypercar designer and manufacturer Pagani has presented the world with this one-off edition of its Huayra model. Pagani collaborated with Garage Italia in the design; Garage Italia is owned by Lapo Elkann, the Fiat scion who had an interesting brush with New York authorities last year. The collaborators are collectively calling the variant the Lampo, which is Italian for ‘lightning,’ as in, ‘in a bottle.’

The car is an homage piece to the Fiat concept car ‘Turbina’, a turbine-powered model and futurist manifesto on wheels which was, shall we say, somewhat too complex to enter production. But the Turbina boasted an enviable drag coefficient, and it also could blow past 150 MPH, no mean feat in the early 1950’s. And, it was a daring design by anyone’s estimation.

So the Huayra Lampo is perhaps an homage to the spirit of Italian sports automotive engineering, a way of honoring the desire to push the envelope which has made Italy a beacon of hope for the driver who loves the art of driving, and has the bank account to indulge in it. That would make sense for Pagani, a company that produces some of the most spectacular and grandiose sportscars on the road today.

The Turbina was clothed in a red-and-white livery, and the Lampo of course reprises it, but in a more modern graphic design context, and with high-endurance carbon-fiber cloth underneath. The Huayra roadster’s engine is there, in all its V12, 750 HP glory, and the Lampo gets Pagani’s high-performance Tempesta aerokit.

No word as of now on whether Pagani intends to offer the car for sale, but it’s likely the car was a labor of love, and a statement for the company’s interest in extending automotive engineering and development into uncharted territory.