No wonder 70 per cent of Utopia customers have gone for the manual ’box. Though it presents as a proudly analogue machine, the Utopia benefits from advanced and fully integrated electronics.

The Utopia looks even better with no roof ... out of a single piece of 9,480-pound metal and took five-axis milling machines 28 hours of continuous work to complete. All told, the steering ...

For a moment, it’s just me and the Utopia, parked on the factory’s neatly aligned pavé. “What a machine,” I mutter, patting the Utopia’s a-pillar like some million-dollar Labrador.