Maserati Birdcage 75th

The Maserati Birdcage 75th is a functional concept car designed and developed by a Pininfarina team led by Lowie Vermeersch, with Jason Castriota and Giuseppe Randazzo under the direction of Ken Okuyama. Introduced at the 2005 Geneva Auto Show, it honours the Birdcage race cars of the 1960s and Pininfarina's 75th anniversary, and was a collaboration between Maserati, Pininfarina and Motorola completed in just two months. It is built on the carbon fibre chassis of a Maserati MC12 GT1 race car and shares its mid-mounted 65 degree Ferrari/Maserati F140 V12, rated at 700 hp. The carbon fibre body has a long perspex windscreen, a transparent engine cover and a raised bubble canopy in place of doors, and the cabin has a head-up display and rear view cameras instead of wing mirrors. It won the Best Concept award at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show.