If constructing hypercars have been straightforward, everybody would do it (although, these days, it looks like that is extra true than ever). However Jim Glickenhaus loves a problem. The previous filmmaker and Ferrari collector turned entrepreneur launched Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus in 2004 with desires of competing within the FIA World Endurance Championship. In 2021, these desires got here true with the purpose-built SCG 007 LMH race automotive.
The 007 LMH would go on to have its justifiable share of on-track success. It took the pole place at Monza and Spa, and achieved podium finishes at each Le Mans and Sebring. Sadly, SCG has since pulled out of the WEC—however meaning the corporate can now focus extra of its consideration on the place it issues most to customers: highway automobiles.
Photograph by: SCG
Meet the SCG 007s. Based mostly on the exact same 007 LMH race automotive that took on Le Mans, Monza, Sebring, and so many others throughout its tenure, the 007s transfers its on-track abilities to a totally street-legal race automotive for the highway.
It begins with the engine. The 007s’ twin-turbocharged 6.2-liter V-8 sends a bonkers 1,000 horsepower and 737 pound-feet of torque to the rear wheels via a seven-speed automated guide gearbox. All in a automotive that weighs simply 3,417 kilos—or about as a lot as a 2025 Toyota Supra.
The suspension was designed with tracks like Le Mans in thoughts, the double-wishbone entrance and pushrod rear, that includes adjustable anti-roll bars you could tweak relying on the monitor or your most well-liked driving fashion. The middle-locking cast aluminum wheels are nice for fast adjustments—say, if you wish to slap on a pair of racing slicks. And the 007s even options onboard air jacks, which implies it’s best to have the ability to make most of these adjustments on the fly.
Photograph by: SCG
Photograph by: SCG
Photograph by: SCG
The aerodynamics are nearly unchanged from the race automotive, give or take just a few updates. The entrance finish nonetheless has a sizeable diffuser with fins at every nook, a bigger vertical sail extending from the rear of the cabin, and an enormous spoiler. SCG says that, even with slicks, the superior aerodynamics permit the 007s to “function on the limits of grip.”
However don’t assume the 007s’ race credibility means it isn’t usable day by day. It has hydraulically activated doorways for simple ingress and egress, a front-end carry so that you don’t scrape the nostril, and sure, even air con.
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“It’s not only a road-going reproduction, it’s a rethinking of what a hypercar needs to be,” the corporate says in an announcement. “Whereas most ‘excessive’ track-day machines battle to adapt to public roads, the 007s was formed by aerodynamic excellence and 1000’s of testing laps on the world’s most demanding circuits—but it glides effortlessly via city visitors and summer time warmth.”
The SCG 007s makes its public debut at this 12 months’s Villa d’Este in Lake Como, Italy, earlier than heading to clients hopefully someday this 12 months. We don’t know the way a lot it prices but, however anticipate to pay a fairly penny for that a lot racing pedigree.
