Meet two new Maserati MC20 supercars, the Leggenda and the Icona

We’ve already praised the Maserati MC20 supercar for being not simply lovely but additionally a genuinely great automotive to make use of day by day. With the legendary Italian firm in one thing of a interval of transition – spurred on by its standing as Stellantis’ most premium model and the company-wide transition to electrification – the MC20 is probably the most direct line between the fashionable Maserati and the feted, close to mythological, standing of the corporate in non-specific days passed by.

Maserati is aware of this all too effectively, and these two new editions of the MC20, the Icona and Leggenda, play up that historic hyperlink with a celebration of one of many firm’s uncommon noughties success tales, the MC12. When it debuted in 2004, the Maserati MC12 was fairly in contrast to some other Maserati of the time. Powered by a Ferrari-derived V12 (and certainly carefully associated to the contemporaneous Ferrari Enzo), the MC12 was little greater than a race automotive for the highway.

Styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro, simply 50 examples of this ‘Maserati Corse’ 12-cylinder had been constructed in an effort to homologate the profitable MC12 GT1 race automotive. Twenty years later, Maserati has enlisted the companies on its in-house Fuoriserie personalisation programme to create these two homages to the MC20’s prestigious predecessor.

The Maserati MC20 Icona is completed in a two-tone livery that immediately references the MC12 Stradale, which in flip was paying homage to the sooner Maserati Trofeo Mild. All this self-celebration has finally turned out fairly tastefully, with a white (Bianco Audace Matte) and Blue (Blu Stradale) livery with delicate Maserati Fuoriserie branding. Wheels are chromed with blue hubcaps and blue brake callipers.

The MC20 Leggenda version is a little bit bit extra ostentatious, with a pairing of Nero Essenza and Digital Mint Matte to imitate the MC12 GT1 within the colors of the profitable Vitaphone Racing group. The well-known Maserati Trident brand is picked out in yellow, whereas the wheels and brake callipers go for a a lot darker hue.

Inside, the Icona and Leggenda particular sequence each characteristic devoted light-weight racing seats, in addition to the addition of the top-of-the-line Sonus Faber sound system, carbon-fibre inside trim and the particular suspension lifter for getting that elegant entrance finish over low kerbs.

Simply 20 examples of every shall be made. Maserati has simply 4 years to go earlier than its self-declared resolution to have its whole vary operating on electrical energy alone. You possibly can ensure that the corporate’s racing heritage gained’t keep untapped because it seems to advertise this new period.

Maserati MC20 Icona and Leggenda Editions, particulars at Maserati.com, @Maserati