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. The company specializes in manufacturing handmade sports cars. The company was founded in 1983 by engineer Fulvio Maria Ballabio, a former

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accessdate: 23. tammikuuta 2016 Montecarlo Automobiles began manufacturing its first street-legal GT car in 1989, which was made entirely of carbon fiber and powered by a

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engine, named Centenaire. That same year, the company also produced a street-legal Spider convertible named Beau Rivage. , their team (which includes former Lamborghini engineers and other Italian car designers, have produced nearly 60 cars and prototypes. MCA has built cars for both racing and cruising. The majority of cars were manufactured using Italian components by experienced Italian Lamborghini mechanics. The local Monte Carlo Motor Museum displays a large collection of rare foreign exhibits featuring luxury models and other well-known sports cars. All the previously made MCA models can be viewed including racing cars built in the early 1980s. The MCA Centenaire V12 won its class in the 1993

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. Montecarlo Automobiles was acquired in 1995 by the French

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group, who built and sold a model of sports car derived from the original MCA Centenaire, named the MEGA Monte Carlo V12, which came with a Mercedes V12 unleaded petrol engine. Although several prototypes were made, their promised production run never started. Aixam returned company ownership to its Italian founders. Montecarlo Automobiles started a collaboration with

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, ACI and

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in 2005 to produce the Carlo Chiti Strawdale 90 which was powered by non-petrol sources. Its design was derived from two cars: the street-legal ALA 50 powered by

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and liquefied petroleum gas, and the Quadrifuel Carlo Chiti powered by an engine derived from the Alfa Romeo 8C coupe combined with an electric motor fitted to the front axle using methane,

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. On 25 March 2012, Montecarlo Automobiles released a new car named Monte Carlo/BRC W12 in collaboration with BRC. It competed in the 4 Hours of Monza with other gasoline-powered cars such as the

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and the

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, finishing in eighth place. In 2014, the company unveiled a sports car called the Montecarlo Automobiles Rascasse equipped with a mid-mounted, BMW-sourced 5.4-liter V-12 engine with a total output of over 500 horsepower.

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