A new three-seater road-legal racer from Glickenhaus: the SCG 004S

Khodrocar - Revealed in CAD renderings for now, the finished article will be delivered to customers from 2018, and a competition version will compete in global GT racing – and potentially Le Mans too.

Logically enough, the SCG 004S follows SCG’s first road-legal model called the 003S.

Three-seater layout

Like SCG’s previous cars, the 004 is built around a carbon chassis. Power comes from a 5.0-litre twin-turbocharged engine with close to 650bhp and 531lb ft, revving to 8200rpm. Despite all that considerable go, the road-going version is paired with a six-speed manual H-pattern gearbox. A purist’s dream, eh? A paddle-shift two-pedal set-up is an option, however.

Said gearchange is on the right-hand side of a McLaren F1-esque central driving position, with two passenger seats set behind the driver’s shoulders.

The bodywork’s carbon too, with a natural or tinted finish optional. Weight is expected to be around the 1180kg mark.

While it’s a form-follows-function design, dictated largely by aerodynamics, there’s a definite ’60s theme to some of its design details. Founder Jim Glickenhaus’s personal car collection includes a Ford MkIV and original Ferrari P3/4 Le Mans car, along with the Ferrari Enzo-based Pininfarina P4/5 commissioned in 2005.

How much is the SCG 004S?

Base price will be around $400,000, with a $40k deposit. The production run will kick off with 25 ‘Founders Edition’ cars.

SCG expects to deliver the first 25 Founders Edition cars to buyers 18 months after the car’s announcement in November 2017.

And it’s a racing car too?

There’ll be a GT3 version too, eligible to race in a variety of GT championships around the world. Intriguingly, SCG says it also plans a GTE/GT LM version – the class that competes at the Le Mans 24h. If so, it will be the first time the marque has competed in the French endurance classic.

The SCG 004 will also race in the 2018 Nurburgring 24h – an established race for the Scuderia, which took pole position with a customer SCG 003 car at the 2017 race.

‘Racing pushes us to build cars that can run flat all out for 24 hours, compete with the best, and are fun to drive on the road,’ says Glickenhaus’s official statement.

‘While we will continue to race the 003C, and deliver 003S road cars, our dream is to race Le Mans. Our new goal is to build a car to enable us to race GTE/GTLM/GT3 at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring, Daytona, Sebring, and ultimately Le Mans. In order to race these classes, SCG needs to scale, which is why we have developed and our proud to unveil the 004S, a road legal car in the United States with a 17 digit vin code under NHTSA’s Low Volume Manufacture guidelines.’

Who exactly are Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus?

Former film director Jim Glickenhaus commissioned the Ferrari P4/5 one-off by Pininfarina mentioned earlier in this article, before creating bespoke competition versions of that car to race in the Nurburgring 24h.

Those cars ran under the name of Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (named after Jim Glickenhaus’s wife Cameron), now a marque in its own right.

Glickenhaus and former Pininfarina special projects boss Paulo Garella then created their own racing car design, the SCG 003, so called because it’s the third one-off SCG design. Now we have the fourth.