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*Well, skinned the inside of one. The perfect accessory to your Huayra BC, then

It appears you can’t be a luxury car manufacturer these days without branching out and dipping your leather-lined fingers into a few more, less car-y design pies.

Seriously, everyone is at it. Mercedes is stamping its name on everything from blocks of flats to helicopters. Porsche has a boat. As does Aston. Pagani has gone one further, by designing its own plane. Well, the inside of one.

It’s called the Infinito. And it is Horacio Pagani’s personal and probably very expensive touch on the cabin of the Airbus’s eight-seater ACJ319neo jet. Anybody with a vague familiarity of Pagani will concur that Horacio’s cars offer a knockout combo of offering outrageous quickness, and exquisite detailing. This is what Pagani now wants to do with planes, thanks to Airbus.

Just like the Huayra, the Infinito uses Pagani’s bespoke high-strength but incredibly lightweight carbon-titanium composite – carbotanium – except this time it’s not in the chassis but in the eight passenger seats, dining room tables and wall frames.

The similarities with the Huayra’s interior don’t end there. There’s also the same ‘chromatherapy’ LED lighting, switches and buttons, all exquisitely milled from aluminium, and pretty much everything you can touch that’s not carbon has been skinned in the finest leather.

However, what you don’t get in one of Pagani’s road cars is the jet’s ‘sky ceiling’, a projection of the live view of whatever is going on outside. Or, if the weather is crap, a giant ceiling length screensaver for you to scroll through your favourite Facebook albums. Your ex’s profile, then.

Airbus prides the jet on being the widest and tallest business cabin in the sector. And with its ‘curves inspired by nature’, ‘shell-shaped valances’ and lounge, conference and sleeping areas divided by electro-translucent glass, it sure does beat EasyJet.

So, this or a Huayra BC?

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Bespoke automakers such as Pagani, Koenigsegg, and others produce just a handful of potent hypercars a year. Their diminutive production numbers do not allow them to skirt emission regulations, though, which means the era of screaming, gasoline-powered hypercars will come to an end eventually. At Pagani, that transition could happen after 2026. In an interview with Autocar, Pagani CEO Horacio Pagani said the automaker would continue to use an updated version of its Mercedes-AMG-sourced V12 engine that'll be homologated until 2026.

Pagani and Mercedes began their close working relationship in 1994 when the German automaker agreed to supply the Italian hypercar maker with V12 engines. News that Pagani plans to use the AMG-sourced V12 engine until at least 2026 isn't surprising even as AMG phases out the powertrain in its own vehicles. AMG has said it will continue to build the engine for other sub-brands such as Mercedes-Maybach, allowing Pagani to continue to use the engine.

The V12 will also power the Huayra's replacement, internally known as the C10, which is scheduled to launch in 2022. But the C10 will be more than a Huayra successor. Yes, the model will use a V12 engine; however, it will also spawn a "full-electric vehicle," according to Pagani himself. The two won't share the same platform – the EV will be modified.

Pagani's plans after 2025 are up in the air, possibly heading in a radically different direction. Pagani admitted the company has considered an SUV. However, because it'd wear a Pagani badge, it'd be high-quality with a price tag of at least €3 million ($3.3 million at current exchange rates). Pagani also said the idea of an SUV had been discussed with collectors.

Pagani isn't transforming overnight. The move toward electrification is being driven by regulations and Pagani's customers who are now younger and located in the Asian Pacific and North America as opposed to its aging 50-year-old-plus European customer base. The V12 will remain for now, and Pagani will move toward electrification when it's ready, likely delivering the obscene performance and craftsmanship customers have come to expect.

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