I’m only three kilometres away from Pagani Automobili, according to the satnav. But it’s all just empty fields and crumbling stone walls. The verges of the narrow Italian roads are edged with waist-high weeds.

We are south-east of Modena, in Emilia-Romagna’s so-called Supercar Valley (home to Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Ducati and more). But these surrounds are not where you’d expect some of the world’s most expensive cars to be made.