The Street-Legal Race Car

The Maserati MC12 is one of the greatest cars ever built. It was based of Ferrari Enzo's chassis. At the end the car ended up becoming a little bigger. This increase in the body went towards every direction. The Maserati is longer, wider, and even taller than the Enzo. This was a great impact on the performance of the car since the Enzo has a higher acceleration and higher top speed. While the Enzo can reach speeds of 217 mph the Maserati can "only" reach 205 mph. Unfortunately only 50 of theses extreme machines were built throughout 2004 and 2005, too bad there weren't any left when I was going to buy one (yeah right!),oh and by the way you had to be selected by Maserati to purchase one (just like the Enzo Ferrari). This car was priced at $600,000 Euros which is about $870,000 US dollars.

As stated in the name "MC12" this car has a V12 engine. With its huge 6L cylinders this has a total of 632 lb-ft of torque and 621 horses. The red line of this engine is indicated at 7,500 rpm even though it is still safe to get up to 7,700 rpm; while the Enzo can go all the way up to 8,200 rpm. The MC12 is designed after many of Maserati's race cars. Maserati has a big history in racing. They took part of the FIA GT which is a series of races. Most of these races take place in Europe but throughout the years other continents were also visited. What this race is all about is that the race car has to be a replica of a road car. But the it can be completely modified to certain limits. There are now three different types of championships GT1, GT2, and newest class GT3. Each class corresponds to how "stock" the race car is, GT3 being almost completely stock. But Every single car in the FIA races has to be street legal with certain exceptions that can be adapted to closed circuit races. If you want tot know more about the MC12 and see some funny along the way click here. If you watch Top-Gear, take a look how fast this car went around the lap driven by the Stig of coarse.