MCA Centenaire 1989

[RagingDaemon]

MCA stands for Monte Carlo Automobile

There are many cars I would love to see in Gran Turismo. So far every single one of them is already a request thread. This one isn't in my top ten wish list but I'm creating this thread because it is pretty much forgotten. A never-were if you will, I used to have this as a BBurago toy car when I was a small boy in the 90's so that's how I knew of it.

Supercars.net is my source for the pictures below and according to that website, the engine is a v12 Lamborghini engine which has been placed in the middle of the car. Naturally aspirated, the engine outputs 455 bhp at 7000 RPM.

 

[Neddo]

I used to have a clean scale model but then I decided to color it with felt pen. Even today I facepalm. But wondwrful car nevertheless. It's looks are ahead of time in a very good way.

 

[matherto]

Yes please.

Had so many 1:43 bBurago models of this as a kid in different colours.

Would be absolutely amazing to have something as obscure and rare as this in any game, let alone GT.

 

[The87Dodge]

I noticed that on the side bumper, I saw the word Lamborghini. Is this car based off of a Lamborghini in any way?

 

[ClydeYellow]

@The87Dodge, the car is not based on any other vehicle, but...

the engine is a v12 Lamborghini engine which has been placed in the middle of the car.

 

[The87Dodge]

So that means that this car's performance is almost identical to a Diablo?

 

[matherto]

So that means that this car's performance is almost identical to a Diablo?

It was a Countach engine so more like that. They stuck a twin turbo on one of them with supposedly 720bhp but I'm unsure whether that car exists anymore.

One of the chassis got turned into this:

So it could be that one, though I believe this one used to be the racing car that went to Le Mans in 1993 and failed to qualify as the MiG M100

 

[ClydeYellow]

So it could be that one, though I believe this one used to be the racing car that went to Le Mans in 1993 and failed to qualify as the MiG M100

No, that's not the MiG M100 (which was powered by a Motori Moderni V12, never heard of it? Think Subaru-Coloni! Adding a turbocharger didn't make it any better as a racing engine, either); it's the 2008 ALA 50, which was supposed to race at the 2010 Le Mans. It's powered by a V8 producing 650 hp, which AFAIK was built specifically for the car.

Anyways, all five Centenaire built (and the one-off targa Beau Rivage) were turbocharged, AFAIK. I think they were the most powerful road cars of their time, too.

 

[matherto]

No, that's not the MiG M100 (which was powered by a Motori Moderni V12, never heard of it? Think Subaru-Coloni! Adding a turbocharger didn't make it any better as a racing engine, either); it's the 2008 ALA 50, which was supposed to race at the 2010 Le Mans. It's powered by a V8 producing 650 hp, which AFAIK was built specifically for the car.

Anyways, all five Centenaire built (and the one-off targa Beau Rivage) were turbocharged, AFAIK. I think they were the most powerful road cars of their time, too.

The ALA 50 was auctioned recently. In the description it was noted that the chassis came from the MIG, which itself was a Centenaire from 1990, they rebodied it in 2008 for the ALA prototype. Also it's got an Alfa 3.0 V6.

http://www.classiccarweekly.net/2014/05/05/mca-ala50/

The two Centenaires I've seen have both had N/A Countach engines.

I've heard of the Motori Moderni engine. Jiotto used it for one of the Caspita prototypes, Koenigsegg used it for one of the CC prototypes. God knows why after the failure with Coloni.