Tecnologia & Innovazione
The wall between racing and road was demolished in 1972. Since then, the same people cast the same metal for both.
Reparto Corse is defined by what it makes itself. It casts its own blocks, weaves its own carbon, runs its own tunnel and writes its own simulation code. Vertical integration is not nostalgia — it is how a company of 4,200 people out-develops rivals ten times its size.
| Family | Years | Configuration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora | 1948–1974 | 60° V12, naturally aspirated | Designed by Tullio Marchetti; from 1.5 L to 4.4 L. Still the marque's signature architecture. |
| Tempesta | 1975–2010 | V8 & flat-12; later turbo | Powered the Testa d'Oro and the ground-effect Grand Prix cars. |
| Zefiro | 2014–present | V6 twin-turbo hybrid | Shared architecture across the RC-90 road car and the endurance programme. |
The current 6.5-litre Aurora XII in the RC-95 Stradale revs to 9,200 rpm and is, the company claims, the last naturally aspirated V12 it will homologate without electrical assistance. Each unit takes a single technician eleven days to build and is fired on the bench for four hours before it is signed.
Opened in 1972, the in-house foundry casts every crankcase, cylinder head and suspension upright the company uses, in a low-pressure aluminium process refined over five decades. Since 2022 it has run on solar power and a biomethane furnace.
The proprietary carbon-fibre lay-up first used in the 1992 Grand Prix car and, from the 1997 RC-F50, in road cars. The 2027 RC Fulmine extends it to a structural battery tub — the cells carry chassis load rather than merely riding in it.