Time.news – On the outside, soft and elegant shapes, made with the most advanced materials, and on the inside, the heart of the powerful Pagani V12 engine. The Emilian company, founded by the Italian-Argentine Horacio Pagani, has unveiled its new hypercar, the Pagani Utopia. A fireball of over 2 million euros, the third of the company after Zonda and Huayra. It took Pagani six years to make it: a carbon-titanium and carbo-triax monocoque frame and an 864 horsepower six-liter twin-turbo V12 engine.
The presentation of Utopia took place in an exceptional setting: the Sala del Cenacolo of the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, which houses the original drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci. To make the link between the design of the Pagani Hypercars and the figure of Leonardo even stronger, an exceptional loan from the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana which allowed six original drawings, also dedicated to studies on air, to temporarily leave the vaults to give life to the temporary exhibition “The forms of air: from Leonardo to Pagani Utopia”.
Curated by Pagani Automobili and Pietro Marani, one of the greatest connoisseurs of the Tuscan artist and author of numerous volumes dedicated to him, the exhibition offers a double path. On the one hand, the extraordinary genius of a man capable – six centuries ago – of representing also the invisible through a review of sheets taken from the Codex Atlanticus and dedicated to studies on air and their application; on the other hand the thought that led the designer Horacio Pagani and his team to conceive the Utopia project. A double vision between form and function.
The dashboard of the Pagani Utopia
The visitor will be able to follow the genesis of the Pagani Utopia project through a series of dedicated panels: from the sources of inspiration to the first car designs, from the chromatic choices to the materials used, summarized in a three-dimensional moodboard. A creative journey that culminates in the Sala del Cenacolo where you can see the new Pagani Hypercar up close. To enrich the exhibition, the section dedicated to the “Story of a dream”, the adventure of a young Horacio Pagani who arrives in Modena from Argentina with a desire: to make the most beautiful car in the world.
“At the entrance to the Museum, the visitor is greeted by a phrase that carries with it a profound meaning: Science is Culture. This expression embodies the very essence of the Museum as a place dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci and, like him, summarizes the contamination between knowledge, different but complementary souls that together are able to give understanding of reality. It is precisely this dialogue between art, science and technology that is a fundamental part of the identity of the Museum. And, moreover, the discovery and invention that always surprise us are intertwined with the fundamental ability to design and implement: and therefore to give concrete value to human ingenuity ”, states Fiorenzo Galli, Director General of the National Museum of Science and Technology. For his part, Pagani underlined: “Presenting our new car in Milan in this extraordinary setting of the National Science and Technology Museum has a particular flavor. Leonardo was very creative here in Milan, I think he lived a beautiful period in this city. L ‘artist has greatly influenced my life since I was a boy, he was the inspiration of the fundamental concepts of Art and Science that guide us in our work. And therefore to be in the museum that bears his name and to have the his original drawings is a truly indescribable emotion for me ”.