Metal as anything; even art

Like its predecessors, the Utopia uses a wide variety of components – 777 in the manual – forged from aluminium alloy and all of these are made in house at Pagani. However, this wasn’t always the case. From the Zonda S onwards, Pagani worked with a local firm called ASPA to provide these components. Then, in 2023, Pagani bought the company and renamed it Modena Design in a nod to the consultancy business Horacio Pagani started after leaving Lamborghini in the early ’90s.

The company probably wouldn’t have survived without Pagani, yet the Utopia as we know it also wouldn’t exist without its catalogue of aluminium alloy components.

Modena Design employee and machining aficionado Antonio Gerardi shows us around seven vast CNC machines (each one precise to 0.01mm and weighing up to 20 tonnes) working 24 hours a day to produce everything from the suspension arms, pedals and gearchange mechanisms to the oil dipstick and badges – many of which can be customised with individual colours and patterns.

The most impressive component? Probably the steering wheel. |t starts out as a 43kg cylinder of aluminium alloy and, after 30 hours of machining and a day of manual polishing, comes out as a 1.7kg solid steering wheel rim. Woof.