One of 13: Maserati's Track-Only MC12 Versione Corse Steals the Show in Turin
A 755-hp track special, a supercar parade led by CEO Santo Ficili, and 540,000 visitors: how Maserati turned Turin's open-air show into a centenary celebration.
A track-only Maserati MC12 Versione Corse — one of just 13 in existence — headlined the brand's home-turf appearance at the Salone Auto Torino, the free open-air show that drew more than 540,000 visitors to the center of Turin between September 11 and 13, according to the organizers.
Now in its third year, the event spread more than 200 cars from 47 brands across Piazza Castello, Piazzetta Reale, and the Royal Gardens, with 40 premieres among them. Maserati set up in Piazzetta Reale alongside its Maserati Corse race-team truck and built the display around the 100th anniversary of the Trident badge.
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The stand itself stuck to the current lineup: a Grecale Trofeo with its 523-hp (530 PS) twin-turbo 3.0-liter Nettuno V6, the updated GranTurismo Trofeo — which Maserati quotes at 582 hp (590 PS) and 479 lb-ft (650 Nm) — in Fuoriserie Green Jupiter paint, and an MCPURA Cielo convertible in AI Aqua Rainbow. The Cielo pairs a 621-hp version of the same V6 with a carbon-fiber tub, butterfly doors, and a glass roof that switches from clear to opaque electronically. The MCPURA replaced the MC20 last year, and Cars.com reported at launch that production is capped at roughly 400 units, with about 120 earmarked for the U.S.
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The rarer metal sat in the Royal Gardens, where Maserati parked the GT2 Stradale — the street-legal version of its GT2 race car, limited to 914 units — next to the MC12 Versione Corse in Blu Victory. Maserati built one prototype and 12 customer examples of the Versione Corse in 2006, none of them road-legal. Each carries a 755-hp 6.0-liter V12 freed from the intake restrictors that capped the FIA GT championship-winning MC12 GT1 it was derived from.
On Saturday, September 12, the brand joined the Supercar Meeting Venaria Reale–Torino, a parade that ran from the Palace of Venaria through the hills above the city before arriving at the show in the afternoon. Alfa Romeo and Maserati CEO Santo Ficili rode along.
Maserati contributed three factory cars to the convoy — an MCPURA in AI Aqua Rainbow, a GranCabrio Modena in Blu Emozione, and a GranTurismo in Verde Giada — alongside customer cars from local dealer Maserati Forza Torino.
The Turin showing is part of a year-long program marking a century since the Trident first appeared on a Maserati race car at the 1926 Targa Florio, the event that also gave the company its first victory. No new product came out of the weekend — this was a brand exercise on home ground, with more centenary events on the calendar through the rest of 2026.
