Meet ‘Elevato’: a modified, off-road Ferrari GTC4 Lusso with a 750bhp V12

An American automotive outfit specialising in luxury off-road cars has made a very luxury off-road car in America. Meet ‘Elevato’, GlasWerks DMV’s offering for the 2025 SEMA show. As you can see, it’s a lifted, off-road ready Ferrari GTC4Lusso.

A lifted, off-road ready V12 Ferrari GTC4Lusso. GlasWerks DMV’s special ops division has picked the 6.3-litre version of Ferrari’s lovely four-seater rather than the V8, and has somehow managed to tickle it up to 750bhp, up from the 681bhp Maranello gave it.

Those 750 Italian horsepowers now power a car that sits twice as high as the original and offers nine inches of wheel travel, through a programme of modification that begins with disassembling each GTC4Lusso – mamma mia! – before re-engineering/replacing more than 30 per cent of its parts.

Parts like the suspension, which has been thoroughly redesigned for its off-road duties. You'll find billet aluminium upper and lower control arms, stronger axles and CV joints, and upgraded sway-bar end links and tie-rods. Underneath the thing you’ll also find replaceable body cladding and some mudflaps. Because There Will Be Mud.

Customers can of course spec their desired spring rates and setups, along with roof-rack systems, billet-machined switchgear, all of the lights, Inconel exhaust systems, custom headlights and rock guards. And speaking of rocks, each Elevato gets paint protection film to safeguard it from the elements being mercilessly thrown in its direction. Glaswerks DMV wants you to actually drive this thing.

Not least because it’s got serious skin in the off-road game. Its engineering boss previously worked with Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Latin America team, and did time with GT3 outfits too. It’s got experience running in the gruelling 24 Hours of Appalachia – a 400-500 mile off-road rally that runs for… well, you get it.

“We’ve spent time in the off-road luxury market and want to offer something different,” said GlasWerks DMV co-founder Joshua Sroka. “Developing the first few Elevatos side-by-side has allowed us to build one car that’s more comfortable and capable on worn out paved roads or gravel, while the other sees more off-road and trail use.”

The price for a lifted, off-road ready V12 Ferrari GTC4Lusso? Each Elevato starts from $175,000.