A Miami Collector's Newest Pagani Is Painted With Real Gold and Moon Rock — and Named After a Da Vinci Painting
Three Years to Get a Paint Job Right
Miami-based collector Kris Singh — whose garage already holds a Pagani Zonda Cinque, a Huayra BC, and one of only four Lamborghini Venenos ever built — has been spotted with his latest commission nearing completion at Pagani's atelier in San Cesario sul Panaro: a one-off Utopia finished in a paint that contains genuine gold shavings and pulverized lunar meteorite. German coating specialist Karosserie spent three years perfecting the formula, working around the fact that precious metal and rock powder don't behave like normal pigment on carbon fibre and aluminium. Singh has named the finish, and the car, "Madonna of the Car Nation" — a play on Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna of the Carnation," the painting that inspired its colour and sheen.
The gold-and-moondust concept isn't new for Singh; he originally developed it for an Aston Martin Valkyrie commission he later cancelled, having certified and set aside a fragment of lunar meteorite for the project back in 2018. Rather than shelve the material, he redirected it to the Utopia once he decided Pagani, not Aston Martin, would be building his next hypercar.
A Headlight Pagani Doesn't Sell to Anyone Else
Beyond the paint, spotters have caught the car wearing Huayra R-style headlight housings — body-coloured units with exposed projectors — in place of the standard Utopia's glass-enclosed LED clusters, a detail Pagani doesn't offer on the regular options list. Mechanically it stays true to the production car: a 6.0-litre twin-turbo V12 producing 864 hp and 811 lb-ft, with an interior Pagani says is being trimmed to match "Italian style and fashion" in its finest leather. Completion is expected around October 2026, on top of a car that starts near $2.5 million before a single gram of gold or moon rock is added.
Pagani's allocation in the Gulf is tiny by design — Dubai's small circle of Zonda and Huayra owners has always traded on scarcity rather than horsepower alone — and a commission like this one pushes that logic further than most manufacturers are willing to go. Exotic-material finishes, from meteorite dust to precious-metal flake, have become a genuine customization category among GCC collectors in their own right, and a factory-backed one-off carrying real gold and lunar rock gives that trend a benchmark few other ateliers can match.