The Official LaFerrari APERTA Picture Thread

This is really puzzling. Clearly a 488 type front and almost exactly 458 side. If Ferrari stuck a V12 in that I'll say Eric Clapton may be pissed. Maybe they have a super V6 stuck in there? They did test the LaF with the F1 V6. Could it be a LaF frame with V6 and different bodywork?!?! This Italian riddle is maddening !!!!!

 

It's definitely Laf style as the wing mirrors stick-out quite a bit.....

 

One off?

J50?

 

What i was thinking

 

This is no J50. Probably one off. This car is similar to the 458/488.. Front lights seem like GTC4's... I'll wait

 

Ya never know.....if not, then must be LaFA?????

 

Already disclosed?

Although clearly not a LaF, who said so? I only read "not a V8". That's why initially I simply thought "Laperta", but an instant later I looked at the waist line and mid to rear haunches and that's totally 458!!! Later picture form the front looks very 488.

Probability wise, it should be a 458 Speciale based one-off with a V12 or the F1 V6 as Crinoid suggested. Whatever makes most sense.


Edit: I see "not a LaF" was stated in the comments of the later, 2nd picture.

 

this. the overall proportion of the car from the front view is very much a car based on the 458/488, if you have seen enough photos of a lafe parking next to a 458/488 the cockpit of lafe is visually much more 'compact' due to the wider body on both size. although the profile pic does show a hint of lafe it also reminds me a lot of the 488. overall this car looks a bit shorter than the 488 but it is too hard to tell for sure.

could be the lafe sp without the kers?

 

A LaFe sp without kers in a 458-ish body would be essentially a V12-engined 458. Or else a 458-bodied LaF chassis which makes little to zero sense.

 

They categorically will not build anything which is not based on a standard platform and engine, so no V12 in a 458.

 

It's a V12 in a 488 body.

 

Ferrari have repeatedly stated they will not build a SP on a non homologated donor car. There have apparently been some very 'important' clients putting pressure on but not budging apparently. I wonder if it would be different if John elkann was asking...

 

I must stick to the info stated, unless it's deliberately misleading:

- Not a LaFerrari
- Not a V8

Then my observation tells me shape and proportions are not from a LaF, Laperta or any LaF-chassis based SP. Actually, the side shape screams 458. You can believe Ingegnere if you don't want to believe me

It's really puzzling because all the possible combinations with the info we have lead us to improbable builds as we all agree, but one of the improbable must be the actual car under the cover. Or else we're being deliberately fooled.

 

I agree with everything you've said. I had one idea that is also possible. What if this is a new GTE race car with a V6 Turbo. That would make sense because Ferrari are getting hammered by the BoP rules and Ford and Porsche cheating. Then I realized this car doesn't have a wing. The most simple explanation is that it is a 458/488 platform one off SP. This is why it's in the Atelier because it is a custom car. The comment that's blowing our minds and making us doubt the obvious is the comments about the engine... I guess we shall wait and see. It is driving me crazy.

 

Fair enough. So given Ferrrai would not mix platforms and drive trains due to cost and type approval etc, would that suggest that crinoid could be correct, but then were that the case, no way would it be in the customer delivery bay. A riddle wrapped in an mystery inside an enigma.

 

Famous quote by Winston Churchill regarding the USSR.

 

The one piece of info not mentioned in the analysis so far,… The pics ARE posted in the LaF Aperta thread…

 

Agreed,… but was he also giving a clue posting it in this thread first??? Time will tell… unless he decides to keep it secret!