Glickenhaus Gets Closer to Sending Its 007 Hypercar to Le Mans

From Car and Driver

• First teased in 2018, Glickenhaus's 007 race car will be built this summer.
  

• The Glickenhaus 007 will use a 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 when it contests the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

• Road-legal versions will also be built, and they will cost more than $2 million.

Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus is not afraid to boast. In fact, the low-volume manufacturer is already talking a bit of smack about throwing its upcoming Glickenhaus 007 race car against some big competitors, well before the vehicle is much more than pixels on a screen.

The 007 uses a 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 engine that was developed specifically for Glickenhaus. The goal is to enter the 2425-pound lightweight racer into the new Le Mans Hypercars class at the FIA World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the 2020–2021 season. The company promises that the new engine will be capable of producing 840 horsepower for 30 hours straight. That's six more than necessary. As Glickenhaus says in its announcement, "If [your hypercar] can't race the 24 Hours of Le Mans, it's not that hyper."

To give fans a glimpse of what the car will look like, Glickenhaus has released this updated series of renderings for the 007. Earlier versions were teased in 2018 and 2019, following SCG's announcement in the summer of 2018 that it wanted to compete in Le Mans.