James Glickenhaus teases next sports car [VIDEO]

Wealthy American car collector James Glickenhaus has published an additional pair of teaser images that preview his next sports car. Unlike the P4/5 Competizione that helped him make a name for himself in the automotive world, the upcoming SCG 003 is being designed in-house from the ground up without any input from Ferrari.
The car is being engineered jointly by Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus and an Italian design studio called GranStudio. The team is still fine-tuning the final design but early teasers suggest that the 003 will wear an aerodynamic three-wing silhouette and borrow a sizable amount of styling cues from cars that compete in the LMP1 class of the grueling 24 Hours of Le Mans race.

The SGC 003 is expected to tip the scale at about 1,600 pounds thanks to body and a chassis crafted entirely out of carbon fiber. The interior will boast a driver-focused cockpit with bucket seats and a full race instrumentation.

Technical details are vague, but Glickenhaus has previously hinted the track-focused version of 003 will be powered by a twin-turbocharged V6 engine that will send about 500 horsepower to the rear wheels, while the street-legal model will feature a V12. The engines’ origins were not revealed.

The 003 is scheduled to greet the public for the first time at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show and make its track debut several months later at the VLM/24H Nürburgring Championship, where it will race in the GT class. The $2.8 million car will be launched as a one-off model, but the Scuderia might build additional examples if it receives enough demand from customers around the world.