The New Pagani Utopia - Wild 864 HP Manual Hypercar

Finally, the replacement for the Huayra is here.

For only the third time since 1999, there's a new Pagani. Not a new model variant either—an entirely new car. This is the Pagani Utopia, the successor to the Huayra, and notably, the car that brings the manual transmission back to the Italian hypercar company.

As with all Pagani models, the Utopia is based around a central monocoque—made of Pagani's unique carbon-fiber/titanium blend—with steel tubular subframes front and rear. Out back, there's an AMG V-12, a 6.0-liter twin-turbo making 864 hp and 811 lb-ft of torque, and behind that, a transversely mounted XTrac seven-speed gearbox. Buyers will have the choice of an automated 'box or a true manual, with a gated shift pattern and a dog-leg first gear. Back in 2019, Horacio Pagani told Road & Track that around 70 percent of his customers were asking for a manual. Given skyrocketing values of the manual-equipped Zonda, it's very apparent that a lot of customers don't want paddles. It's a contrast to the Huayra, which was only fit with a single-clutch automatic.

The engine is an evolution of the V-12 that debuted with the Huayra Roadster BC, itself a heavily modified version of the Mercedes M158 unit that debuted with the original Huayra coupe 10 years ago. Sadly, the screaming, naturally aspirated V-12 used in the Huayra R wasn't designed for road use, and because Pagani wants to meet worldwide emission standards, including those in California, the twin-turbo V-12 was the obvious choice.

Crash testing supercars isn't cheap. Neither is the Utopia. Pagani says it'll cost 2,170,000 Euros in North America before taxes. That's $2,196,789 at today's exchange rates. Even if you have that kind of money, don't get too excited. All 99 planned Utopia Coupes have already been spoken for. Deliveries begin in the second quarter of 2023, but manual cars won't start arriving until late next year.

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