| Designed to win races, the Maserati MC12 is actually | | | | not expected in the future. |
| sold as a road car, albeit it a very impractical one. Still | | | | V-12 from Ferrari with 622 bhp |
| what do you expect with a 620 bhp exotic car? The | | | | The Maserati MC12 looks completeley different from |
| car looks just like the sports racing car that it is. To be | | | | the Enzo, though,, with a long nose and very long tail. |
| fair, it is a real two-seater while the cars that race at | | | | Where the Enzo is angular, the MC12 is curved. It has |
| Le Mans are more like single-seaters. | | | | a carbon fiber body structure with steel sub-frames |
| Only 25 MC12s were built initially, and quite a few were | | | | front and rear. Power comes from a 6.0 liter V-12 |
| used for racing. Actually, when they heard about | | | | developing 622 bhp @ 7,500 rpm, and 480 lb ft (652 |
| Maserati building the MC12 for the GTA championship | | | | Nm) torque @ 5,500 rpm. A semi-racing engine to be |
| (ooops, sorry for sale as a road car, was the official | | | | sure. It is coupled to a semi-automatic six-speed |
| line, I think) some of the other companies threatened to | | | | sequential gearbox, developed by Ferrari in racing. |
| withdraw as they thought the presence of the MC12 | | | | Suspension is by double wishbones, with inboard spring |
| on the starting grid would make a farce of the whole | | | | and damper units acting through pushrods. These are |
| series. | | | | mounted horizontally as on the Enzo. The dampers |
| Although the Maserati MC12, is a true exotic car, it is | | | | have variable rates. Quite a car, but not as extreme |
| based on the Ferrari Enzo. The whole idea was to | | | | as the Bugatti Veyron or the latest Saleen S7. |
| upgrade Maserati's image following a checkered | | | | Following the racing success of the MC12, Maserati is |
| history. The glory of the 50s, when Maserati was a | | | | now to build a more extreme version - the MC12 |
| regular winner of Grand Prix, got lost in the mire of an | | | | Corsa. The MC12 Corsa has a massively uprated |
| economic downturn, when the company took the | | | | Enzo V-12 engine giving about 750bhp. You can get |
| wrong turn more than once. | | | | this for about $1.3 million - or £700,000 or Euros 1 |
| As Ferrari and Maserati are both part of the Fiat | | | | million depending where you live. |
| Group, and were in fact in the same sub-group, it | | | | But this is not a road car, nor will you be able to race it |
| made sense to modify the Enzo to get Maserati back | | | | in any official categories - so this is a trackday special |
| as a winner. Now, Ferrari and Maserati have been put | | | | at a huge price. Maserati plans to build about 12 MC12 |
| in different sub-groups, so this sort of collaboration is | | | | Corsas a year. |