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