The De Tomaso P900 was announced in 2022 as a track-only hypercar in a bid to reinvigorate the maker of the legendary Pantera. Now, the auto’s engine has been revealed, a lightweight V-12 that makes 900 horsepower—and, visually, is the stuff of nightmares.

De Tomaso designed the engine, which has been years in the making. It’s a bit old school to make a statement with a new V-12 engine, but the brand is a bit old school, so that’s part of its appeal.

“A vision so bold it was said to be impossible,” De Tomaso said in a statement. “Sculpted for the eye, engineered for the ears.”

The engine revs to 12,300 rpm, which means that it should scream. It will make 900 horsepower with synthetic fuel. De Tomaso has been working on it since before the P900’s unveiling in December 2022.

All the pipes are for exhaust, which end in a single hole at the rear of the engine. The car itself looks no less complicated, like the 1960s Batmobile, but modernized. The power will be sent to the rear wheels, and De Tomaso has also that the P900 will be extremely lightweight, or just 900 kilograms, hence its name. That works out to less than a ton, and a power-to-weight ratio that will be a bit frightening.

Car and Driver also thinks with an engine this memorable, it makes sense for the P900 to not cover it, or possibly cover it in glass, since part of the intimidation factor of showing up to the track with the P900 will be its engine. The engine also does well to stand out in a crowded field of hypercars from the likes of Bugatti, Koengisegg, Ferrari, and Lamborghini, not dissimilar to when the Pantera debuted in Modena in 1970, taking on some of those same automakers.

De Tomaso plans to make just 18 P900s and sell them for $3 million each, though that was the price in 2022, and it’s possible that it’s gone up since then. Sentimentally, a lot of supercar fans will be rooting for the P900, even if they won’t want to stare at its engine for too long.

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