The very rich, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed, are different from you and me. The man from Pagani Automobili was explaining that Britain had been the biggest market in the world for the original Zonda when I asked how many Paganis there were in the country. He paused. "It's difficult to say," he shrugged. "The owners often take their cars with them when they travel." He nodded at a white Huayra parked nearby. "That car," he said, "came in from the Middle East a few days ago. The owner wanted to drive it while he was here." We were inside an anonymous building in the middle of a quiet, nondescript industrial park just off London's traffic-choked North Circular Road. There's a small Pagani Automobili sign outside above the large roller door, the only clue that a handful of the hand-built Italian hypercars-two Zondas and four Huayras, collectively worth about $10 million-are parked behind it.
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