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Street-legal Maserati MC12 Corsa up for sale
Click to view the Maserati MC12 Corsa in hi-res
Evey year automakers spend considerable amounts of money creating the most extreme racing cars to edge out their competition on the track. Unfortunately, lust-worthy as they are, those competition machines are rarely available to the common consumer to buy. That's where homologation regulations come into play.
The Maserati MC12 campaigns in the FIA GT Championship. In order to enter the championship, which the team took in 2005, Maserati fabricated and offered 50 vehicles to the public. But as devastatingly fast as the roadgoing MC12 was, some customers wanted more. So Modena rolled out 12 examples of the MC12 Corsa (a.k.a. Versione Corse) to satisfy the needs of its most loyal, track-obsessed clients. Based closely on the GT1 racing version, the MC12 Corsa packs a mammoth 6-liter V12 producing 744 horsepower – 121 more than the roadgoing supercar. The Versione Corse compared to the Ferrari FXX: both of them were based on the Ferrari Enzo, both were offered in limited numbers, both were maintained for their best clients by the factory, and most importantly, neither were certified for road use. However, one German customer managed to get his MC12 Corsa certified for street use, and that solitary example is now up for sale. Illustrating the point that depreciation does not apply to the top echelons of the supercar market, the minimum bid on this unique MC12 Corsa is 1.45 million euros – 45% higher than the original sale price from the factory, and it's sure to sell for more than that when the hammer finally drops.
Gallery: Maserati MC12 Versione Corse
[Source: MC12Corsa.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Quattroporte 12:31PM (8/04/2008)
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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Itsuru 12:36PM (8/04/2008)
Couldn't have put it better.
Alex 12:45PM (8/04/2008)
agreed
Franz 1:08PM (8/04/2008)
'Nuff said.
Josh 12:34PM (8/04/2008)
*every year
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Zane 12:36PM (8/04/2008)
OMG! I'm in love! The full-on frontal view is one of the most menacing shots ever!
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Torrent 12:43PM (8/04/2008)
Love the front view especially with the spoiler balancing everything out in the back. It's too bad I'll never drive it. Or even see it at that. :(
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2004m3driver 12:45PM (8/04/2008)
Probably one of the rarest modern super cars to see on the road. This is about the only car I haven't seen on the streets. Maybe if I lived in Saudi Arabia I would see it pick up groceries.
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Adam 3:23PM (8/05/2008)
I saw a tuned one (yes tuned!) on the streets in Montreal this year at the F1. It blew my mind.
ALEXDB9 12:46PM (8/04/2008)
I could swear there is a silver one rolling around here in Palm Beach Fl. That huge spoiler is what reminded me of it.
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Franz 1:07PM (8/04/2008)
I doubt it. According to the article, this is the only one certified for road use and it's in Germany. Maybe you saw a Mosler with the optional rear wing?
JerryL 1:42PM (8/04/2008)
There is a blue/white one in WPB but it is not the Corsa. I believe one of the differences is that the Corsa has an even wider body and wider wheels than the street version. This is another example of a car where the street version, actually has more power than the race version because of the restrictions both on power and wheel width required for FIA GT1 racing. Without the restrictions on this car and the C6R Corvettes, and DBR-9's they would accelerate better and have a higher top end than the LMP-1 cars. The FIA views this as a safety issue and limits the GT1 cars. So this car might be even faster than the race versions !! What an awesome car.
WhyNotTheC63? 11:21PM (8/04/2008)
There is also a "regular one [if you can call an MC-12 regular]in Newport Coast, Ca. I couldn't resist trying to race the guy. I kept up for about-----that far. What kind of power that God of a car has, I have no idea. I would assume some perfectly designed V12 by the way he had to have been going 150mph+ in a few seconds.
Quattrofan 12:56PM (8/04/2008)
Bellissima!
But whats with the sloppy snake of wires under the center console. Ever heard of zipties?
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tehmoon 12:57PM (8/04/2008)
Amazing
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nagmashot 1:12PM (8/04/2008)
it is not the only street legal MC12 Corsa, in Germany are two street legal MC12 Corsa.. this one offered here in black..
here is a video of it as it rolled through the traffic in Munic Germany..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHpKheIyyJk
and Edo Competition has managed it to get one street legal..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ0W3gjeIyc
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madgamer 2:14PM (8/04/2008)
There was a Swiss guy that legalized a Ferrari fxx for street use, so I would say that with enough $ you could get about any of these things legalized. They can claim it's the only one, as maybe it's the only one officially done through Maserati, but that's not to say someone else couldn't come along like edo and legalize one of the other existing ones.
gt-racer 1:29PM (8/04/2008)
Here's my problem. Some rich douche is gonna buy this and fuse it with a wall or telephone post somewhere. But as a wise man on autoblog once said (you know youself homie) " I can't afford it so I guess my opinion doesn't count."
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Bill Montgomery 1:47PM (8/04/2008)
BADA$$!
Couldn't imagine seeing that at the stop light - too cool!
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gus 2:05PM (8/04/2008)
Is it me or is the Sparco logo on the passenger seat is crooked...
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