Scuderia Cameron
Glickenhaus (SCG) announced that it had started developing a modern variant of
the Baja Boot. Now, the company took to Facebook to announce that the first
order for a Baja Version of the brand’s Boot has been placed and that the
transcontinental trip will begin in 2020.
As SCG stated in its post, the first of five Baja
Editions (in red below) of the Boot has already been spoken for. The Baja
variant of the off-roader will be able to participate in the Baja 1000, as well
as the Dakar Rally, which Peugeot has dominated in the past few years. As SCG
revealed, the Baja Editions will all be 2019 model years and cost US$ 250,000 for
the two-door variant and US$ 275k for the four-door.
In another Facebook post, SCG invited other
automakers, including Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini, Land Rover and Ford to
accompany it on a transcontinental journey that will start in New York and end
in Paris. The trip will start in the summer of 2020 and see SCG, and any other
automakers that want to join, travel amphibiously “across the Bering Sea, down
the Road of Bones, across the Trans Siberian Highway through Beijing, Moscow,
St. Petersburg and then on to Paris.”
It’s an ambitious plan that SCG has obviously
thought about a lot, as it also released a bunch of new photos of its Boots in
various terrains. The amphibious part of the trip is the most challenging and
the renderings make it look like SCG will tackle that part of the journey with
a simple approach: a couple of canoes and outboard engines.
In addition to all of this, it also has plans to set
a new altitude record with the Boot. The off-roader will have to travel 21,942
feet up the Ojos del Salado volcano in the Andes Mountains if it wants to set a
new record.
SCG has clearly come a long way from building
bespoke supercars that were after Nurburgring lap records.
