Delage, a legendary French brand well known to serious collectors, made its mark on motoring history from 1905 to 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
World Grand Prix champion, winner at Indianapolis and Le Mans, and holder of numerous records; the brand built up the finest French sporting record of the era in the 1920s, before moving its road models upmarket; by the 1930s, these had become the symbols of \u2018the beautiful French car\u2019, the most successful brand in the world at Concours d\u2019Elegance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Taken over in 2019 by Laurent Tapie, joined a few years later by the biggest names in French business (Arnault, Pinault, Niel, and others), Delage has been reborn by
positioning itself in the hypercar market, with a first model named the \u201cD12\u201d, intended to be the production car closest ever designed to an F1 car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Central driving position within a cockpit bespoke for each customer, a naturally aspirated V12 engine coupled with a low-voltage electric motor (a world first) delivering 1,000 horsepower; a kerb weight of 1,350 kg, a carbon fibre chassis and wheels with a brake cooling effect (a world first), and F1-style active suspension (a world first for a road car).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The D12 was designed by a technical team boasting a combined total of 16 FIA world titles, including F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, who oversaw its set-up, to deliver the sensation of driving an F1 car on public roads, priced at \u20ac2 million excluding VAT and optional extras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first customer deliveries have begun for this ultra-exclusive model, manufactured in France (at Magny-Cours) and limited to 30 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Delage also made its return to competition in 2023 in partnership with Idec Sport, notably securing pole position in the LMP2 class at the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14165,"template":"","categorie-exposant":[79],"class_list":["post-14163","exposant","type-exposant","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-exposant-supercars-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmarquesmonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposant\/14163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmarquesmonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposant"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmarquesmonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exposant"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmarquesmonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topmarquesmonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-exposant","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topmarquesmonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-exposant?post=14163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}