Lamborghini Las Vegas listed a 2005 Maserati Roadster MC12 on eBay. Currently it is tracking at $1.3M with reserve price not yet met. We previously wrote about a recent sale in 2006 of a year 2004 MC12 model, which went for little over $1M. There were only 50 built of this car in 2004 and 2005. According to the auction description: “Maserati only produced 25 vehicles in 2004, all of which, to our understanding, were used for track purposes only, and 25 vehicles were then produced in 2005 for personal sale and use. Only 7 to our findings have been federalized for the United States.”
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One of 50 built in 2004 and 2005. The first example imported into U.S. Built on an Enzo Ferrari platform. List price of $799,000. Naturally asperated, paddle shifter, carbon fiber body. In as-new condition with little sign of use.
Top end speed of 205 mph. Zero to 60 in 3.8 seconds. MC12Rs have won two of three FIA GT Championship races. If you want a street legal race car, this is it. More rare than an Enzo, but not legal in California—so you don’t have to worry about letting a guy named Dietrich drive it and wreck it.
Source: Sold at RM Auction: Lot #460, Monterey, CA, USA, 8/18/06
Christie’s lot#122, Pebble Beach, CA, USA, 8/17/91
Red/black; chrome Boranni wire wheels, side exhaust, twin-plug engine, full belly pan; interior, shields and under painted hammertone silver; can’t reasonably fault its condition; Brazilian car with modest racing history there.
Maserati road cars hold a unique appeal, and there is no doubt the Quattroporte and GranTurismo are truly desirable and rare. However there is one Trident-badged car that can eclipse them both: even more desirable, and far rarer, is the MC12 road-going supercar. Only fifty examples were built, so catching a glimpse of one of these 6-liter V12-engined monsters could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The most exclusive variant is the MC12 Corse, limited to a bespoke production of just twelve cars. Designed solely for track use, the MC12 Corse made great use of the technology found in the MC12 racer currently defending its FIA GT Championship title. Output from the engine was a stratospheric 756 bhp, while creature comforts in the cockpit were stripped out, resulting in a car which weighed just 2,646 lbs – with a power-to-weight ratio of 570 horsepower per ton!
And yet, even in the world of the ultra-rare, there is always something which is yet more exclusive. For one customer, owning an MC12 Corse which could be used on the track wasn’t quite enough – so the car was modified to make it street-legal. The work – undertaken by a third party, with no connection to Maserati – was extensive, including fitting interior trim to the cockpit, the installation of a handbrake and such niceties as a windscreen demister. The car was even fitted with electrically adjustable ride-height, allowing the car to be raised for road use and lowered for the track.
This unique car – the very first of the twelve MC 12 Corse cars built – recently came up for auction at the Coys ‘Leggenda e Passione’ event held in Monaco. How do you value such a one-off car? Would it be more desirable than a ‘standard’ MC12, or would its convoluted creation make bidders wary? The answer, most emphatically, was the former. The car was eventually sold for a remarkable $2.2 million, making it one of the most expensive Maseratis ever sold. We expect it is worth every penny.
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