veteq
03-04-2004, 11:43 PM
This would ne nice
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"There has been a lot of discussion on whether the MC12 should rightfully be called a Maserati, as it is an obvious development from the Ferrari Enzo. I personally believe the Enzo to be the most advanced supercar ever designed, and certainly one of the fastest production cars ever (a direct comparison with the McLaren F1 has yet to be made). I also believe that it would have been a great waste, if all the engineering efforts behind it had been destined to fade away after the planned 399 Enzo road cars had been produced. It only makes sense that all the engineering and development experience of the Enzo project were exploited to create a new, dedicated racing car. Should this car have been badged as a Ferrari? I think this is beyond the point.
The point is that Maserati now has a fearsome racing weapon with the best V12 in the world under the hood, a carbon fiber structure as only true racing cars can boast, with breathtakingly beautiful yet functionally-designed bodywork aimed at optimizing aerodynamics on the racetrack. Apart from the fact that it would have been pointless for the same company to design the same concept twice in two years, to even think that the MC12 should and could ever have been designed from scratch by Maserati is to live in a fantasy world. In today’s world of high technology the costs for developing something like the MC12 from a clean sheet are almost unsustainably huge and not comparable to vague notions of a distant nostalgic past, when some creative engineering and a lot of enthusiasm were all that was needed to develop winning race cars. In this sense we can only applaud the decision of making full use of Ferrari-Maserati’s combined experience, engineering and resources to develop the first proper Maserati racing car since the Birdcage." [/quote]
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http://www.themaseraticlub.com/Geneva_09.jpg
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"There has been a lot of discussion on whether the MC12 should rightfully be called a Maserati, as it is an obvious development from the Ferrari Enzo. I personally believe the Enzo to be the most advanced supercar ever designed, and certainly one of the fastest production cars ever (a direct comparison with the McLaren F1 has yet to be made). I also believe that it would have been a great waste, if all the engineering efforts behind it had been destined to fade away after the planned 399 Enzo road cars had been produced. It only makes sense that all the engineering and development experience of the Enzo project were exploited to create a new, dedicated racing car. Should this car have been badged as a Ferrari? I think this is beyond the point.
The point is that Maserati now has a fearsome racing weapon with the best V12 in the world under the hood, a carbon fiber structure as only true racing cars can boast, with breathtakingly beautiful yet functionally-designed bodywork aimed at optimizing aerodynamics on the racetrack. Apart from the fact that it would have been pointless for the same company to design the same concept twice in two years, to even think that the MC12 should and could ever have been designed from scratch by Maserati is to live in a fantasy world. In today’s world of high technology the costs for developing something like the MC12 from a clean sheet are almost unsustainably huge and not comparable to vague notions of a distant nostalgic past, when some creative engineering and a lot of enthusiasm were all that was needed to develop winning race cars. In this sense we can only applaud the decision of making full use of Ferrari-Maserati’s combined experience, engineering and resources to develop the first proper Maserati racing car since the Birdcage." [/quote]