- The Huayra successor is powered by a 6.0-liter twin-turbo V12 and weighs just 2,820 pounds.
- The interior features a fully exposed manual shift mechanism and a steering wheel machined from an 88-pound piece of aluminum.
- The video reviewers from Car and Top Gear are enthusiastic about details such as the mirrors and the wheels, which are partly made of carbon.
You can no longer buy a Golf GTI with a manual transmission, BMW’s M division admits it will soon phase out this option, and you haven’t been able to order a Ferrari or Lamborghini with three pedals in the footwell for years. But Pagani will sell you a V12 hypercar with a manual shifter, and watching the shifter move is almost as amazing as rowing the lever.
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The beautiful shift mechanism in Pagani’s third model in 25 years in the car business is just one of the many exquisite details packed into the $2.3 million Utopia (pronounced oo-toh-pee-ah in Italian). In two recent videos from Top Gear and Car Magazine, both reviewers are fascinated by the attention to detail and creativity that goes into every switch, button, lever and trim.
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One would not describe Utopia as classically beautiful; It looks muscular but a little puffy, like a pro bodybuilder in the off-season. But it’s a lot more interesting than so many low-volume supercars and hypercars, and a lot of that is in the details, with features like the wheels that are partly made of carbon fiber and the gorgeous side mirrors that look like they’ve been lifted from a midsize car been. Endurance racer of the 70s.
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Or the dual glass panels in the canopy, whose dramatically curved windshield and swept-back A-pillars, according to TG’s Ollie Marriage, give the driver excellent visibility of the road – something that can’t be said of any Lamborghini of the modern era.
Luckily, we also take a lot of time in the two test reports to tell you how the Utopia drives and what Pagani’s first turbo engine sounds and feels like. It’s a Mercedes-AMG unit, just like the naturally aspirated engines in the Zonda and Huyara, but with the help of its two turbos it produces 852 hp (864 hp) and 811 lb-ft (1,100 Nm), which is plenty for an A Car that weighs a staggering 2,822 lbs (1,280 kg) – about the same as a Toyota GR86.
Both testers are impressed with the V12’s flexibility and its sound – so often disappointing in turbocharged supercars – and say it doesn’t rev nearly as high as a Ferrari V12 (6,700 rpm, versus a crazy 9,500 rpm at the). new 12Cilindri) never stops it from being less than exciting.
Of course there are faster cars, but these two videos remind us that there’s more to a great supercar or hypercar than just being fast. And when most of them seem to spend their time being driven slowly and not even close to their sky-high dynamic limits, that has to make the Utopia one of the best around.
Cover images courtesy of Car Magazine
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