MY DREAM PAGANI UTOPIA! First Drive in the New Manual V12 Masterpiece

I’m in Italy for a dream drive in the new Pagani Utopia! Equipped with a V12 engine, and a manual gearbox, this one-of-99 hypercar is everything as special as you imagine, with nowhere better to experience it for the first time than Motor Valley around Pagani HQ. Now, come along for the ride! Following on the heels of Zonda and Huayra, the Utopia was born under the codename C10, but very much bringing a third chapter in the amazing 25 year history to date of Pagani Automobili. Utopia by name is a place of which we dream, something that does not exist - as defined by philosopher, Thomas Moore, and that is exactly what this car is like when you start to take it all in. Unusually in the modern era, it is entirely powered by an internal combustion engine, there’s no hybrid system, but purely a Twin Turbo V12 that produces 864ps and an extraordinary 1,100Nm. In turn that produces all sorts of complications that could easily be overcome by the use of an evolution to the Huayra'