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For all of you Billionaire Boys Club members who've been itching to get your hands on the new Huayra, it looks like you'll have to tide yourself over with a Ferrari or McLaren until 2013.From Yahoo! Autos:
Italian automaker Pagani was to begin selling its $1 million, 700 horsepower Huayra supercar in the U.S. later this year but federal safety regulators have said "Not so fast."I know Pagani is a relatively small operation, but I can't imagine any carmaker today—especially one making a $1 million car—not including the most up-to-date airbags and safety measures required by law. These types of things tend to add weight to a car and affect its balance (and therefore, performance), but I would much rather have a million-dollar car that keeps me and my co-pilot alive when we crash at 200 mph than one that kills us when we crash at 205 mph.
Pagani had applied for an exemption from federal auto safety rules requiring child-safe "advanced" airbags, arguing that complying with the rule would have caused "substantial economic hardship," according to documents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
NHTSA denied the request, essentially blocking the car from sale in the U.S., because Pagani failed to show that installing the airbags on the twin-turbocharged 12-cylinder carbon-titanium car would cause the company undue financial strain. Also, the Italian carmaker didn't show that serious efforts had been made to comply, the agency said.
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