the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback

The brand new Pagani Utopia is a V12-engined throwback

Horacio Pagani’s great hero and idol, Leonardo da Vinci, once remarked how “water is the driving force of all nature”. With all due respect to the celebrated polymath, he was wrong.

No, the driving force of all nature is a bespoke Mercedes-AMG biturbo V12 devoid of modern affectations and brimmed with horsepower.

Welcome, one and all, to the brand new but decidedly old-school Pagani Utopia. Only Horacio’s third ever hypercar.

the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback

The company itself admits it needed to determine exactly what this new ‘C10’ stands for; the Zonda established “the legend” while the Huayra introduced active aero and carbo-titanium. Utopia – a name taken from Sir Thomas More’s famous poem – is born into a world steadily turning the screws on such conspicuous extravagance.

Horacio’s response? “No heavy batteries, no hybrid power, just a wonderful V12. No dual-clutch system, just a pure seven-speed manual or automated transmission.” So old-school that were this car a heavyweight, it’d be Rocky Marciano. The brief was to re-engage with “simplicity, lightness and the pleasure of driving”. And one suspects great pleasure can be derived from a 6.0-litre turbo V12 built specially for Pagani.

We’re told only that Mercedes-AMG’s monster twelve-pot sitting at the heart of, ahem, Utopia, delivers 864bhp and “a prodigious” 1100Nm of torque. It’s said to meet even California’s strict emissions regulations and “revs higher and is more flexible”. Than what, Pagani doesn’t say, but probably the engine it supersedes.

the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback
the brand new pagani utopia is a v12-engined throwback

Rather than attach this leviathan to a dual-clutcher, Pagani instead slotted in an automatic Xtrac unit that’s lighter, more compact and features helical gears. Later in 2023, Utopia will get a proper seven-speed manual gearbox, not a “virtual manual”. Hmm, wonder what Pagani’s referencing there…

This bruising powerplant is wrapped inside a decidedly new-school package, Pagani’s familiar carbo-titanium monocoque, featuring front and rear tubular alloy steel subframes. There’s forged aluminium double wishbone suspension all round, allied to helical springs and electronically managed active dampers.

The brakes are reasonably mighty as one would expect. Six and four-piston calipers front and back are cleaved over carbon ceramic ventilated discs all round, and all hide behind 21in/22in forged aluminium alloy wheels.

No hiding away from that body. Pagani readily admits each of its cars “begins with an aesthetic shock”, and Utopia specifically is said to “radiate simplicity”. The company references the more “flowing and curvaceous” lines this car submits, in pursuit of a more timeless design.

It’s been deliberately shorn of the more obvious aerodynamic accoutrements like massive wings and splitters and vents (no doubt keeping some back for the inevitable special editions we’ll see later in its life). And while any Pagani is a striking motor car, this’ll certainly get people talking.

TEXT Vijay Pattni

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