The aboriginal shake-down has been captivated at Fiorano of a actual appropriate one-off, the P540 Superfast Aperta, congenital for an American client. The car, the additional in a new Appropriate Projects programme created by Ferrari to accommodated requests from the best acute audience and collectors to actualize absolutely different models, is based on the 599 GTB Fiorano and was aggressive by a Carrozzeria Fantuzzi-designed Ferrari congenital accurately for the 1968 Fellini film, Toby Dammit, itself aggressive by one of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
The P540 Superfast Aperta's appreciative new owner, Edward Walson, son of John Walson, the artist of cable TV, approached Ferrari in 2008 to aftermath a avant-garde reinterpretation of the gold-coloured car in the film. "I had consistently dreamed of designing sports cars," Walson explains, "and back I saw this blur the accommodation came of its own accord: one day I would accept 'my' Ferrari."
In accordance with the Appropriate Project's access to bearing such alone one-offs, the P540 Superfast Aperta respects all absolute all-embracing assurance and homologation requirements and is appropriately alley legal. The car was advised by Pininfarina and congenital in Maranello, and the applicant was anon complex in anniversary date of its development. As the 599 GTB Fiorano donor car is a coupé, ample accomplishment went into deepening the anatomy by application bound aspect assay in development and the access in weight was kept bottomward to aloof 20 kg by employing carbon-fibre extensively. From the antecedent sketches to the final, road-legal car took aloof 14 months.
As the applicant took commitment of the car at Fiorano his action was understandable: "This is the best appropriate Christmas present of my life."
Technical specifications
Length 4731 mm
Width 1954 mm
Height 1300 mm
Wheelbase 2750 mm
Front clue 1690 mm
Rear clue 1620 mm
Engine
65° V12
Displacement 5999 cc
Maximum ability 456 kW (620 CV) at 7600 rpm
Maximum torque 608 Nm (62 kgm) at 5600 rpm
Transmission
F1 6-speed gearbox
Tyres
Front 245/35 20"
Rear 305/35 20"
Fuel consumption
Combined aeon 17.9 l/100 km
CO2 emissions
Combined aeon 415 g/km
