The Maserati MC12 Is a $4 Million Ultra-Rare Supercar 

DOUGCEMBER IS REAL!

The fact that Doug has reviewed so many cars and he’s still giddy as hell when he gives this thing the beans is so awesome and why am sure a lot of us love what he does. A real car guy giving amazing and honest reviews of the cars we love and drive.

Now let's see another iconic car of this era: Mercedes CLK-GTR

Doug is the type of guy to look for a radio in a V12 Supercar. That sound is so great. Such a quirky car.

I genuinely can’t believe they let you take it out for a spin unaccompanied on public roads. This has been one of my favourite “poster cars” since it release when I was 8 y/o.

A big thank you to the owner of the company to allow Doug and us to share the experience. A truly irreplaceable piece of history. Wow!

The MC12 always reminds me of cruise ships because of the colours and the size of it.

I saw one at a small event around the time they came out, and had no idea what it was. I remember thinking it was so cool, and writing down the name of the car and looking it up later. I had no idea at the time how rare and special it was, or would become.

I love how Doug says everything twice. Everything Doug says, he says it a second time, and that is something that I love.

thats easily the most beautiful engine bay ive ever seen. that airbox is unbelievable and blue is just perfect

Massive respect to Doug DeMuro for reviewing these awesome old supercars.

this is still one of my all time favorite car designs. i love the early 2000s designs that are retromodern because it looks like a classic le mans racer

The greatest things about Doug are stuff like his real enthusiasm for cars, his honesty, his lack of ego, his never ending sense of wonder and sticking to his formula for reviewing cars. The guy has reviewed cars of all types and prices, has car industry recognized reputation, and yet unlike a lot of RU-vidrs, he still feels like a guy next door, he doesn't threat us the viewers like we are small. Keep it up Doug. In a way, it's probably why everyone is willing to borrow him their priceless toys to take a look at.

I never thought Doug DeMuro would be reviewing a Maserati MC12. Can’t wait to watch this! 👍

Had a chance to spot one flying past me in Dolomites in september. Couldn't believe my own eyes and the fact that it was PROPERLY driven through the mountain roads 17 year after production. Kudos to owner, truly a one of a kind experience.

This is one of my most favourite cars of all time. It is such a crazy design. The paint looks so nice too. I have no idea why they used white pearl paint over regular white paint, but I am happy they did

Doug thank you for making these essay quality reviews. So many of these cars have never been seen on the road and/or are far out of reach. It's great fun for us car nerds to learn more about automotive models! All the best!

Fun fact: The designer of this car is Frank Stephenson, and he has his own RU-vid channel. And he is active! He reviews designs of modern cars.

I remember one day going to visit my grandparents (this was around in 2010 I believe) and we were turning off the highway and I heard this crazy noise. I turned to look and see what it was and there were two brand new Ferrari 458's and an MC12. One of the coolest things I've ever seen on the road. I've been lucky to see a couple of these over the years. Thanks for the review Doug!

I've been a subscriber for a long time but this is without a doubt, IMHO, Dougs most fun video... When you gave it some beans I actually got goosebumps hearing that engine/gearbox combo :) Thank you for the effort and hard work you put into these videos Doug!

I saw this car in a speed magazine that my dad got back in 2005. I fell in love with it as my #1 dream car, I'm glad you got to drive it, and confirm it's 100% worth driving. I don't think it would be dailyable without some help (Lift kit to clear stuff more easily). I'll have to make due with my 2016 corvette for now.

Your hard work is paying off nicely Doug. Livin the dream!

About the interior cloth, I remember watching an interview with Frank Stephenson, the designer of this car. It had to do with lightness and uniqueness. Leather would have been heavier, and bare plastic was just unacceptable for such a car, of course. If I remember correctly, he said that he happend to stumble upon this particular fabric while visiting various suppliers in search of something suitable, he liked it and they bought the entire stock. It wasn't specced as "fake carbon", or made especially for Maserati.

This is why I love Doug he has and does the best video's on RU-vid regarding automotive knowledge and history!!!! Love all your work brother keep up the great job!!!!!

Never seen Doug quite this delighted. Fantastic reaction.

Doug is the type of guy to say "for Europians..." and continue to say the dimensions in inches. 🙃

Doug, the kind of guy who drives like a boy who just got the best present ever, but still evaluates like a grown up. Great stuff to watch!

i had a book as a kid in 04-06 era that showed supercars and cool cars and this was one of them...loved it ever since

I remember this line from a movie "The number 1 rule of Italian driving: What is behind me is not important" -- he must have owned a Maserati supercar. Thank you Doug for showcasing a rarity indeed

Thank you Doug for putting in the metric system as subs. It’s such a small detail but I was really easy to follow all of the cars dimensions. That Volvo was a nice little touch as well

I grew up in Whitefield, Manchester, UK.. down my road was a beautiful house with a very wealthy man indeed.. he daily drove this car.. to me and my friends as a kid this was a spaceship.. being older now I realise how special a car this was! He later bought a veyron.. he let me and my friends sit in his cars. What a guy

I was utterly obsessed with these things as a young kid, carried my hotwheels mc12 everywhere for a long time.

I got a car book from a Scholastic Book Fair in 2005 with this car on the cover, and it instantly became my all time favorite supercar. I read through the article about it so many times, and stared at those full page photos for what seemed like an eternity.

Doug’s passion and the level of energy he exuded in this video makes ME happy 😂🙌

I'm so glad you got to teach us about this car! As you said, there is little information out there regarding this Maserati, which left me with many unanswered questions after this car came out. I've been a Maserati fan ever since the Bora arrived on the scene. The Bora was one of the premier super cars of its day. I hope you get a chance to review one sooner or later.

What a beautiful car! I consider myself fortunate to have seen an MC12 Corsa driven in anger around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course a few years ago at the SVRA event at IMS (and up close in Gasoline Alley). Hearing it scream down the front straight at full voice and echo through the hallowed grandstands is truly a cherished memory.

Still to this date one of my most favorite cars ever since I saw it on a cover of a kids car book. I still have that book. Thank you to the owner and thank you to Doug for reviewing this legendary ride!

Fun fact about the MC12 driver's seat and pedals - they were all custom made for each owner at the purchase order. The future owners were pushed into substance (similar to those used in the process of making braces) and the seat as well as pedals were then formed to fit only the one owner. Making it basically hard to buy one second hand. (Colleague of mine is dating a son of an owner of the MC12 haha)

Just realized: the unique selling argument of Doug‘s videos are 100% authenticity and 100% passion!! He just loves exactly what he is doing!

Hey Doug, it’s been a minute since a dropped a comment. Honestly I was a bit ambivalent when this video popped into my feed, but man what a surprise. Your review here was, to put it simply, joyous! I don’t want to mention how many years I’ve been watching your channel, but I will say this was hands down one of my favorite reviews. Big 👍🏻👍🏻

I've been waiting for this Christmas Gift Video from Doug! I was lucky enough to drive one of these on the German Autobahn with the Owner (an older Collector from Munich) on the Passenger Seat, this thing sound like a WW2 Airplane dive bombing at around 300km/h (186mph). Here in the Alps we have yearly Events where all Super and Hypercar Owners of the "Supercar Owners Circle" come to an old Swiss Airfield and race their Cars and also tour them on nice Roads through the German, Swiss, French, Italian and Austrian Alps, this always includes TWO Maserati MC12 as well as several Pagani Zonda, Pretty much every Koenigsegg & Bugatti, Lamborghinis from all Generations, Mercedes.Benz McLaren Stirling Moss etc. For those curious to see them among many other Cars that only collect Dust in Garages of other Collectors, there must be plenty of Videos on RU-vid if you search for "Supercar Owners Circle Event". Thanks for this detailed Tour Doug, and if you ever get to Germany, you'll definitely get a lot of Cars to review! Prost & Cheers from the Bavarian Alps

Years ago back in 2012 I got the chance to see both a Ferrari FXX AND an MC12 GT car. Both were on display at Ferrari of Houston. As a 12 year old I was on cloud 9 and I believe I'd have a similar feeling if I saw them again today. I had no idea they were so rare. I'm so glad they let me take a look at TWO of the most rare cars of all time. All of the picture are still on my Facebook today.

Amazing, I've been waiting for you to make a video about the MC12 for a little while now since I fell in love with it in Forza Horizon 4. I know it's a video game, but this is my go-to car against other players, and like you said, there are VERY little videos about it! Great job! Also, the roof can be stored in the net behind the seat I think.

Love the video! Amazed I got to film one of these before you

This is one of my favorite super cars, I was lucky enough to see one at a cars and coffee a few years ago. It's probably the rarest car I've ever seen, not including BMW prototypes.

They had a custom sprayed black one at Goodwood Festival of Speed, which was tuned to near 800bhp, which was direct from Maserati. The sound was unbelievable as it raced up the hill at around 150mph. Never cared much for them before seeing this one, won over is an instant

LET'S GO!!! Been waiting for this video for literally years. So glad you got the opportunity to see this car up close and show the world.

Awesome review. Thanks Doug.

Hi Doug! It would be very interesting to see you review an 1997-1998 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR

Finally! The MC12 review is here!

This is the first car I fell in love with, so happy you got to review it!

Doug awesome!! Subbed. One of my fav cars of all time mainly for the looks. Kind of a weird car now that I know more about it. Sort of like there were a lot of cooks in the kitchen during the design of the car lol Also - what's up with one of the small right rear tail lights not being red like it's counterpart on the left?

8:30 "who needs a radio when the car sounds like this"...that's made my day and I LOVE THIS CAR SO MUCH THANK YOU DOUG YOU ARE LEGEND!!!

What an amazing car. I used to work at Maserati and got to sit on the 00 model (didn't drive though) which they had in R&D and it was an experience i will never ever forget

great video, amazing car, even better review, but the think that makes me love this video in particular is Doug's emotional response to driving it.

Saw this at the Minneapolis auto show in my very early teens and was in awe of the car. It was the most exotic vehicle I had ever seen in person at that age.

I saw one of these in the flesh back in 2008 when I was in Prague. It was driving down a narrow cobbled street in the old town looking amazingly out of place. It’s such a wide car!

I remember watching this on Top Gear many years ago, it set a lap time of 1:18.9 and beat the Ferrari Enzo, I remember specifically the sound it made as it went through the follow through, funny how I remember that specific moment so well, maybe because I was 8-9 years old and thought it was the coolest thing ever

I always love watching your facial expressions when you accelerate. Another great video.

God bless, seeing Doug enjoy a car is life

Congratulations, Doug! Driving the MC12 is both an automotive-life & channel defining experience.

The carbon fibre cloth (if I remember) was an advanced material that was rejected by the fashion industry for being too expensive. I also remember in the UK on fifth gear, a guy who owned one took it inexplicably for a track day in the snow and crashed it - I still remember being so annoyed at him!

The car from the 50 cent video - Window Shopper... nice memories, thank you, Doug!

What a trip down memory lane! Such a fantastiic car. Thank you, Doug!

Cool that the Race version of the MC12 DID have the covers over the lights. Makes sense for a bit more aero efficiency.

that 850csi in the back is the dream spec

I love you speak about no one knowing what it is and not being excited.. meanwhile this was my very first dream/favorite car. It was in a book I was given as a kid.

Thank you for the great video about the MC12. Now I know the two storage compartments (these two in the doors and that behind the seats) which I don´t know before beside the other two well known storage compartments.

back in 2014 I saw an mc12 on a flatbed which was one of the first times if not the first that I’ve seen one of these multi-million dollar “hypercars” and all I can remember is the amount of car that was just hanging off the back of this truck and how wide the wing was. One of my all time favourite cars

The "carbon fiber cloth" came from the shoe industry. It's a nice durable fabric that was used on a TON of sneakers throughout the late 80's and most notably the 90's. Used on many Jordan models.

I've been waiting on this for so long!! seems like there are very few videos really showing this car off

This was always one of my favourite Supercars. Much more so than the Enzo, and yes, I love that pearl

After years of waiting! One more off your "top 10 cars I most want to review" list.

24:30 This quirk blew my mind. I remember when this car came on Top Gear, and I've always thought it had a clear plastic cover over the headlights.

What a beautiful car. Truly stunning. The little details really set it apart.

The blue color matching headlight inkays are such a nice touch. With such an over the top in your face design it's cool to see little subtle details like that.

I love these old supercars. I wish we could see some prototypes too. I remember building models of them as a kid.

I appreciate the fact that they let him drive this beast of a car, but Amazon with their van didn’t

thanks for the unit conversions

Have been waiting for this. Was my favorite car as a teenager. Wonder if you could find one of the 2008 corsa ones?

This car is pure craziness, perfectly mirroring the mentality of early 2000’s people and I absolutely love it. Wish I could own one in this lifetime

"This is a Maserati MC12" followed by "Big news, this Maserati MC12 is Live now on Cars And Bids!!!"

Thank you, Doug! You are amazing! 💯

This is my favorite super car, I still have the miniature. Is soo cool and different. Thanks for taking the time to review it

In my youth, I was on holiday in the south of France near Cannes and one of these appears on the road, I just went crazy ! To see this thing moving and it was new at the time, it was so glorious and epic ! I had the time to take one picture on my terrible photo camera, I still have this picture today, but man the only one I saw in my life was this one and will be the last, because of the rarity I guess ... I'm watching this channel since the early days and I'm so happy to finally having a video of this car ! Proud of you Doug ! Greetings from Switzerland

I still remember Doug’s post and article about when he spotted one of these in 2007 in Atlanta. Literally started my obsession with exotic cars

Such a cool car, in 2007 I went to visit my long distance GF for the first time, only when I got home did I discover there was a Ferrari/Maserati dealer a couple of miles from her house - and they had an MC12 in stock! So gutted I missed it! I did see a race one at Goodwood 4/5 years later though. I have that carbon fibre look cloth in my 2008 Multipla!

Doug giving us the length of cars in millimeters gets me every time 😂

Doug, thank for your outstanding review of the Magnificent Maserati MC12. I fell in love with this car the instant I saw the three-quarter view of it looking into the camera. What a stunning body design. Long and sensuous, built for speed and low and angry at the same time. The exquisite white and blue paint design belied a racing royalty lineage that extends to today. What a magnificent car. What a magnificent engine. I wish you were allowed to drive it on a track so you could go through, at least, three gears, at almost full throttle. What beautiful music she makes. Bizarrely, one of the true quirks of this car on the racetrack was that, at over 200 mph going on a long downhill straight portion of track, these cars liked to allow air under the front of the car and they would explode off the track and fly a hundred feet in the air doing somersaults as they went. I don't think any driver ever died but it was impressive to say the least. The MC12 was modified to stop that for obvious reasons. The MC12 is a track car. Although you were allowed to drive this massively rare, beautiful car, the long overhang front end and the long overhang rear end do not survive in a real world street setting well even with the life feature on the car. Even this rare Maserati shows damage to the bottom of the carbon fiber fins on the diffuser at the rear of the car. This is likely trailering damage. This car is so damn long, trying to get it on a trailer that has any kind of ramp is nearly impossible without rubbing the bottom of those rear fins. So, she is a very particular car. Built to excel on the track and defeat all competition. And she is one of the most beautiful, most impractical cars ever made. Thank you, Maserati, for crafting the Masterpiece called the MC12.

The smile you had on your face when delivering this was contagious.

As a kid I had a book that mostly featured this car it looks amazing what a great video!

One of the best looking cars ever made.

"Who needs a radio when the car sounds like this" **State Farm jingle plays** Doug, you put that ad there on purpose didn't you?

Stunning car and the colour scheme is fabulous. Love the pearl and blue, also the “carbon” cloth on the inside. Always a favourite.

26:29, Yes the opening behind the front wheels is an aerodynamic element. It allows the high pressure air to escape the wheel well-reducing lift.

The most beautiful Maserati ever made, hands down. Never thought I'd see this review!!

Another car that Doug said that he REALLY wanted to review back in March 2021. Also, one of my favorite supercars of all time. I honestly prefer the MC12 than it's brother, the Ferrari Enzo, BTW

Wow! Talking about living the dream! Doug is doing it! The enthusiasm for this MC12 is infectious! 🤘

Doug intro are the best. THUSSSSSSSS

Dougcember is officially on!