CAR magazine UK drives the all-new Pagani Utopia supercar: all the details and a definitive verdict
The Pagani Utopia is a supercar’s supercar. Loud, ludicrously quick, jaw-dropping to look at and just a little bit scary to drive, it’s the modern-day embodiment of the cars we dreamed of in the back of GCSE maths class. It’s rare, too. When was the last time you saw a Pagani on the road? Probably not recently – Pagani onlyv and even then the numbers are – initially at least – kept in double figures.
Among other countless details are the mirrors. They hang delicately away from the rest of the body, their form partly resembling an elegant snowdrop, yet there’s also a clear high-speed aerodynamic benefit to their unusual design. Other noteworthy items include the rear lights – suspended in the air extracts and resembling those from a 1950s Ford Thunderbird – and the ceramic coated titanium quad exhaust , as seen on Paganis since the beginning.
Both the gear gaiter and steering wheel are made out of machined aluminium alloy – a process that Pagani does in-house since recently acquiring the CNC plant that’s supplied parts to the company since the Zonda S. Incredibly, the steering wheel starts off as a 43kg solid block of aluminium alloy and, after 30 hours’ worth of machining, comes out as a 1.7kg solid steering wheel rim.
What’s more, when driven, the car feels significantly smaller than its exterior form suggests – this partly down to the excellent driving position. In fact, the biggest pain when piloting the Utopia is the dog-leg gearbox. While the sentiment is understandable, you question the logic of fitting a car with a transmission pattern different to the vast majority of modern manuals.
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