by Stephen Rivers
- GlasWerks DMV turns Ferrari’s GTC4 Lusso into the lifted 750-hp Elevato.
- Company claims it built the first-ever luxury V12 Italian off-roader.
- Priced from $175K plus donor car, it’s more rally special than crawler.
SEMA Show is getting another interesting entry. What you see here is the GlasWerks DMV Elevato which, according to the brand, is the “world’s first luxury V12 Italian off-roader.”
Even with five qualifiers in that description, and even if you dismiss the Ferrari Purosangue as a crossover, it sure seems like they are forgetting that Lamborghini did this decades ago. We’ll circle back to that claim, though.
The Elevato is essentially a wide-bodied Ferrari GTC4 Lusso and frankly, it looks great. GlasWerks DMV stripped it down and then rebuilt it with rally hardware. It features billet aluminum suspension control arms, strengthened CV joints, and double the ground clearance of the original car.
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The modifications enable eight full inches of wheel travel and there’s even an onboard air system to tweak tire pressure on the fly. Thirty percent of the parts you see here are new compared to the normal Ferrari this car is based on.
Under the hood is a 6.3-liter V12 tuned to around 750 horsepower. It sends that grunt to all four wheels via Ferrari’s stock gearbox. The company says that it can handle endurance-style abuse.
Customers can even specify spring rates, unique exhaust mods, rally lighting, roof racks, and full STEK paint protection film if they want. Honestly, if the only thing GlasWerks claimed was that this was the most hardcore Dakar-style supercar, it would be hard to argue.
That’s not what it says, though. Instead, it posits that this is the “world’s first luxury V12 Italian off-roader.”
Well, Lamborghini did that with the LM002 back in the 1980s. It featured seating for four, far more ground clearance, utterly insane looks that not even modern (German-owned) Lamborghini was brave enough to emulate with the Urus, and a V12 from a Countach.
At the end of the day, whatever we want to call it, this looks like a very cool Ferrari Dakar spin-off of sorts. It starts at “around $175,000,” though based on GlasWerks record of questionable descriptions, we’d ask for a hard number if we were in the market.
Oh, and keep in mind that the price doesn’t include the donor car.
