Next week, Maserati is launching the MC20, a (in good ways and bad), and Maserati’s first new car in over four years. It’s very likely the most interesting thing Maserati’s done in a bit longer than that.

That last interesting thing, by my estimation, was . What’s interesting about the MC20 is it will have its own motor powering it, that . That engine is a 3.0 liter, twin turbo V6 that Maserati has previously said would make 621 horsepower and 538 lb-ft of torque.

(It’s also worth noting that the MC20 sure looks like corporate bosses handed Maserati the Alfa Romeo 8C concept to deal with, as .)

What’s also interesting is that Maserati is choosing 2020 to finally debut its own engine, even as it is also . That gives a decidedly retro feel to this launch, a supercar with an all-new internal combustion engine in the year of our Lord 2020. A hybrid version is also in the works, though not for the US, .

The run-up to the launch has also been textbook, with various hints from Maserati and , the latest of which was this week in the form of a tweet:

Looks like a car? Styling is not my forte, so I will leave judgment on its looks up to the better-informed, though of the MC20 in the past. It looks, of course, like what it is: a mid-engined sports car whose styling is very curvy. Expect this to get here possibly next year but more likely in 2022.

One of the biggest question for me is price, and whether the price will be completely ridiculous, like the MC12, or merely a quarter-of-a-million-dollars-or-so ridiculous. Car and Driver, for what it’s worth, estimates the latter. I still, for some reason, can’t afford that.