GTO Engineering Moderna is a reimagined Ferrari 250 GTO

GTO Engineering has previewed its Moderna, a new sports car that is claimed to celebrate the "best of Sixties motoring with modern and motorsport-derived engineering".

Heavily inspired by the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO SWB, the new Moderna is said to benefit from the British firm's near three decades of experience restoring, building and looking after some of the world's rarest road and race-spec Ferraris.

That might explain why the modern take on the 250 GTO uses a period-correct tubular steel chassis with aluminium subframes.

However, aside from the aluminium doors and bonnet, the rest of the Moderna's bonnet is constructed out of far more modern carbon-fibre.

This construction, GTO claims, helps the reimagined Ferrari tip the scales at less than 1000kg.

In yet another nod to the famous 250 GTO, the Moderna will be powered by a quad-cam V12, although the company has yet to confirm whether the engine is based on the original Ferrari Columbo V12 that had a four-cam arrangement in the '67 275 GTB/4.

Nor has GTO revealed power and torque figures, but expect the V12 to rev to a stratospheric 8000rpm and for it to produce comfortably more than 300kW.

Following on from a limited run of the firm's 250 SWB Revival, the new Moderna is expected to take around 18 months to build at GTO Engineering's Berkshire HQ, with 300 hours alone going into the construction of the V12.

There's no word on pricing but expect the GTO Engineering Moderna to cost more than a million dollars when it's fully revealed later this year.