The new Pagani Utopia was recently revealed at the Natural Science and Technology Museum in Milan. With countless special editions and only two model lines, this counts as the brand’s third supercar.
What makes the Utopia special is that Pagani employed a user-centred design of their new hypercar by consulting owners of existing models to justify what they would want the Utopia to look and feel like. According to Pagani’s announcement, they requested three things: “simplicity, lightness, and the pleasure of driving”. Pagani delivered just that, comparing the design of the Pagani Utopia with the Zonda and Huayra, it has a minimal aesthetic, but still has an undeniable resemblance to its archetypal ancestors.
Horacio Pagani founded his company right under the noses of Ferrari and Lamborghini near Modena in 1992. Horacia was a visionary who came to Modena from Argentina with a dream to create the most beautiful cars in the world. Years later the company has become an instantly recognisable success. At the unveiling, this piece of art by Pagani was surrounded by six original drawings created by Leonardo da Vinci, an idol of Horacio, loaned on an exceptional basis by Biblioteca Ambrosiana to provide a stunning backdrop for the Pagani Utopia. Italy’s Natural Science and Technology Museum was the host of the official debut of Pagani’s Hypercar and a fitting one at that. This was the perfect setting to display the new vision and direction Pagani is taking.
Like other Pagani models, the Utopia is based around a central monocoque made of Pagani’s unique carbon-fibre/titanium blend. At the back of the Utopia, there’s a 6,0-litre twin-turbo V12 AMG engine producing 635 kW of power at 6000 r/min and 1 100 N.m of torque from 2800 r/min to 5900 r/min. Buyers can select between the seven-speed automated manual transmission that Pagani claims is the quickest shifting gearbox with helical gears and there is also a true manual seven-speed option available.
The design of the Pagani Utopia still holds the active aerodynamic elements, Bodywork is made from a new type of carbon fibre which Pagani says offers increased stiffness without extra material. On the inside the simplicity and minimalism continue, Pagani’s quest for simplicity is clearly displayed by how interior pieces are put together. The steering wheel is milled from a single piece of aluminium, along with the pedals, there is only one screen placed on the instrument cluster but one thing is for sure, it is filled with knobs and analogue instrument gauges like all those that have come before it.
Only 99 units will be built and sold and they’re already assigned to customers. The Pagani Utopia wrote the third chapter of the brands history, an utterly unique clear-eyed vision of a sports car.
