One of the world’s rarest $5,000,000 cars spotted in Dubai leaves hypercar spotter in disbelief

This car spotter in Dubai was able to film one of the rarest Italian hypercars in the world.

Unveiled in the early 2000s for homologation reasons, this Italian beauty is almost impossible to find on the road because most owners never drive it.

Well, this one did.

Kudos to them, considering there are only 50 in the world and, on average, you need about $5 million to buy one.

This car is rare even by Dubai standards

Many hypercars are rare, many are expensive, and even more deserve cult status.

But this Maserati MC12 is a rare car, even by Dubai standards.

It checks all three boxes, which is why most are never driven and reside in public museums or private collections.

This owner in Dubai, however, clearly loves driving it, at least occasionally.

Painted with the iconic white and blue, ‘Bianco Fuji’ and ‘Blu Victory’, livery, this mint MC12 was spotted somewhere in Dubai by Atif Mallick, a Dubai-based car spotter.

This’ll probably make a lot of car people happy.

High-profile car collecting is a thriving market, which is why spotting truly rare hypercars on the road is becoming harder.

We also got in touch with the car spotter, who shared the same sentiment.

“I’d never seen this car in Dubai before. So that’s already telling,” he told Supercar Blondie.

“I know people buy these cars not to drive them but to invest in them – that’s how it goes these days – so spotting ultra-rare cars is rarer than ever, probably.”

This car had a spiritual predecessor

Automakers love using the expression ‘spiritual’ successor, which probably needs some explanation.

In general, automakers talk about a successor when the new car picks up from where the old one left off in terms of technical details and market segment.

By contrast, when they talk about a ‘spiritual’ successor, what they mean is that the new car is too different, or the market has changed too much since its predecessor, to even make a comparison.

Or all of the above.

That’s the case with the MC20 – a modern production sports car with very little in common with the old MC12, which was a hypercar loosely based on the Ferrari Enzo. It uses the 6.0-liter, 621-hp V12, and was designed as an ‘afterthought’ homologation car.

Apart from anything else, production numbers matter.

Only 50 MC12s were made – or 62 in total if we include 12 track-only race cars.

As for the MC20, technically, this is a production car.

Anybody can go out there and order one.

Well, almost anybody.