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...