The Ferrari SP51 is a car with stripes on it, an homage to another Ferrari, the 1955 410 S, one of which Juan Manuel Fangio drove. The SP51, announced on Wednesday, also has a V12 under its front hood, built on the 812 GTS platform. The SP51 buyer, identified as a Ferrari collector based in Taiwan, is probably having a good day.
Another thing to note is that Ferrari says it simply doesn’t have a roof – this car obviously has to be left in a garage and driven only in good weather, or at the buyer’s preference, completely. not drive. And that lack of roof has come with a number of aerodynamic challenges, which Ferrari says it has developed with cabin comfort in mind, including acoustics. Then this car isn’t a race car, really, it’s like being at home in traffic jams in Monte Carlo.
Meanwhile, the red paint is unique to the car, and so are the wheels, which are things that buyers can get annoyed with when it comes to their friends. However, the most interesting in The launch of Ferrari – refined in the ordinary – is the particular pleasure of describing interiors. Ferrari wants to give its customers a thank you for all their work on the car.
That said, the pinnacle of meticulous honing, in which the customer participates every step of the way, must be the cabin where new heights of craftsmanship and creativity are reached. Its personalization revolved around two clever ideas: the decision to use the same Rosso Passionale color created specifically for the exterior as the main color for the Alcantara® trim and the effective idea of prolonging the exterior paint color. out vertically into the cabin. In fact, its white and blue stripes both appear on the center tunnel and the partition between the two seats on the firewall, as well as the stitching on the steering wheel, creating a sense of seamless continuity between the exterior and interior. in which the architectural roadster car plays an important role.
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The Ferrari One-Off, SP51, was designed for a longtime customer in Taiwan who is also one of our top collectors. This is the successful road car on Maranello’s first V12 front-engined spider in 50 years. Its bold styling captivates at first sight. However, it still retains the signature luxury of its inspiration, the 812 GTS, while pushing boundaries by offering a whole new way of enjoyment. en plein air control.
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This is, of course, the privilege of being rich, ordering up a one-off car from Ferrari and being able to tell your friends that not only did you have a hand in the design process but also that Ferrari acknowledges as much, too, and here’s the press release to prove it. I’ve never quite understood it, though, as if I was giving Ferrari hundreds of thousands of dollars for a car and they turned around and asked if I wanted to help design it I would simply reply that that is exactly what I’m paying Ferrari hundreds of thousands of dollars to do.
Ferrari, though, also says that this person is “one of our leading collectors,” so perhaps it’s not surprising that, having acquired multiple Ferraris already, they want to help design their next one. That is what they say, anyway, about a functioning and equitable society, that if we don’t have rich people with enough time and money to buy and help design their own bespoke Ferrari, I’m not sure what we’re doing here. The stripe on the interior is a nice touch, though.
