The Delage D12 is a hybrid street-legal sports car produced by the French automobile manufacturer Delage from 2022.
History
The French car manufacturer Delage ceased operations in 1953. In 2019, the entrepreneur Laurent Tapie signed an agreement with the owners of the brand “Les Amis of Delage "in order to relaunch the Delage brand and produce the hybrid D12[3] in the Paris region from 2020.
Presentation
On 10 and 11 December 2019, the resurrected manufacturer presented the Delage D12 Concept Car to a selection of potential clients in California as a world premiere. Two versions are announced: the D12 GT and the D12 Club. Both have the same carbon chassis, the same naturally aspirated 7.6 L V12 engine developing 990 PS and are intended to be homologated to be street legal in the United States, in Europe, and in most major markets. It is in hybridization that the technical sheet changes: the GT has an 110 PS electric motor (bringing the total power to 1100 PS while the Club contains an electric motor of only 20 PS (for 1010 PS of total power), but the Club is 90 kg lighter at (1300 kg dry weight versus 1390 kg for the GT). The GT will accelerate faster but, because of its lower weight, the Club will lap faster. Delage wishes to homologate the D12 in the European Union in 2023 to then try to beat, with the D12 Club version, the record of the legendary Nürburgring race track in Germany in the car category homologated for the road.