In the world of luxury supercars, every detail counts and is designed to the millimeter. The most exclusive works of art on wheels on the globe not only feature powerful mechanics, advanced aerodynamics or materials from another planet, but extremely expensive components that are manufactured by hand. This is the case of the hardware on the Pagani Utopia Roadster.
This open-air version of the Utopia Coupé is a beauty weighing only 1,280 kilos, with a V12 biturbo heart manufactured by hand and exclusively by AMG, that develops 864 HP and 1,100 Nm of torque. Just the bolts on this super-luxury convertible cost practically the same as a Porsche Macan or a Mercedes-Benz C-Class.
Pagani will never surrender to “normal” standards in its supercars
Horacio Pagani has ensured that in his company even the smallest components reflect the exclusivity and quality of his cars. Proof of this is that each screw on the Utopia Roadster, Made of grade 7 titanium, they are engraved with the Pagani logo and carry a reference to the chassis number of the car to which they belong.
While, for example, on Amazon you can find sets of more than 300 steel screws for about 10 euros, the unit price of each of these screws made exclusively for the Pagani Utopia Roadster is around 75 euros. If the vehicle has about 1,500 screws, The total value of its screws would amount to 112,500 euros.
Taking into account that the price of each of the only 130 units that will leave the factory is 3.1 million euros before taxes, the accounts say that The bolts on a Pagani Utopia Roadster cost approximately 3.63% of its final price. This type of detail is not new for Pagani, as it has also been seen in its iconic Huayra, another model with luxury and quality standards at another level.
Thus, with just what the hardware for a Pagani costs, you could buy a second-hand Porsche Macan, a Mercedes-Benz C-Class, a BMW 5 Series, two CUPRA Formentors or even a second-hand Ferrari 575 M Maranello, to give examples.
Maybe with the cost of nuts or carbon fiber body paint you can buy at least a couple of utility vehicles.
Although it is one of the most striking, because we are talking about screws, Pagani’s is not the only case of very expensive parts and/or spare parts for the most exclusive cars. An example of this is the only Lamborghini LM002 in the world with a family body, which was part of the vast and spectacular car collection of the Sultanate of Brunei, valued at more than 5,000 million euros.
This one-off of the bull’s all-terrain vehicle is now owned by a Swedish restoration firm, which when it wanted to sell it ran into a problem: its very expensive tires, with a price of 50,000 euros. We also remember the case of the wheels of a Bugatti Veyron, which even being second-hand can cost more than 25,400 euros.
We are talking about a car that, new, cost around two million euros, so none of its components are ever cheap, nor are its maintenance or repairs.
The philosophy behind these models is clear: create vehicles where each element, even the smallest, reflects the value and exclusivity of the whole. For many, after all, hypercars like the Pagani Utopia Roadster are not ‘simple cars’ designed to be driven: they are sculptures with engineering and design at another level, built with materials and artisanal finishes only available to a few. .
Source: www.motorpasion.com
