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Rare Federalized Maserati MC12 for Sale

Most of the folks born in the 21st century probably don't know that Maserati built a hypercar. It's called the MC12, and there were 50 of them, put together over a decade ago so that the company could go racing.
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Legends tell us that the MC12 is based on the Ferrari Enzo, otherwise known as the processor of the LaFerrari. If today's hybrid hypercar from Maranello suddenly became a Maserati, it would be kind of cool, right? Well, now you should have a pretty good idea why finding one for sale is amazing.

How much does this one cost? We have no idea, but from the way it's being described by Canepa, a couple of million is the target.

Originally, this 2004 model was brought into the country by a collector from Florida under the Show or Display exception. The exception to what? The American law that says this thing is illegal to drive. Later, it was "federalized" using help from the Maserati factory at the staggering cost of $250,000.

We don't know what they did to it, but you could buy a Ferrari with the conversion money. The good news is that it's got only 1172 km (728 miles) on the clock, not that you can easily drive one of these. Sure, the interior is covered in plush blue leather, but there's no rear window!

By current standards, this may only be classed as a supercar. Its naturally aspirated V12 produces only 623 horsepower, despite the 6-liter displacement. Meanwhile, the top speed of 330 km/h (205 mph) and sprinting from to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 3.8 seconds are similar to the Jaguar F-Type SVR.

As a funny sidenote, Maserati only intended to make a handful of units, but due to the MC12s considerable success, followed up with numerous victories in the FIAs GT1 class, the second batch of 25 cars was built in 2005. It's funny to imagine this particular example sitting in a museum 50 or 100 years from now, when all the oil has been used up.
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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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