You can now buy a Pagani Utopia for £880! Sort of!
Pocher's new 1:8 scale die-cast copy features 556 parts and takes 30 hours to build
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The Pagani Utopia: an ultra-rare, finely chiselled hypercar with 852bhp and a £2.2m price tag. Without options. If that seems a tad hefty, die-cast maker Pocher now has a solution… for about 0.04 per cent of the price.
This is its 1:8 scale Utopia coupe model, which took two years to develop and costs a more welcoming £880. It'll take you around 30 hours to put together each of the 556 intricately designed parts, using the 200 various nuts and bolts provided.
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