FULL ’HAUS

Glickenhaus is taking on the establishment again, on road and track

Tom Harrison

Le Mans 2021 just got even more interesting. We’ve already heard Aston and Toyota say they’ll compete in the WEC’s new top-tier ‘hypercar’ class, and now Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus has thrown its hat in the ring too. SCG says it’ll field a pair of these SCG007s (no, this isn’t Bond’s next car) in the WEC, but also offer the car to privateer teams and build a “limited run of road-legal examples”. Power comes from a 3.0-litre twin-turbocharged V6 of so-far unspecified origin sending 478kW to the rear tyres, while a KERS system will deal a further 110kW to the front. SCG is the project of Jim Glickenhaus – friend of TopGear, collector of many interesting Ferraris (including the Modulo, which we’ve driven) and now, builder of his own hypercars and…

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Top Gear South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2019

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