This is not a real Ferrari, but it also very much is a real Ferrari. Meet the surprise new F76: A very official but distinctly undrivable supercar that pays tribute to Ferrari’s success at the Le Mans 24-hour race, and looks to the future of the Prancing Horse.
Why undrivable? It’s a render, and it shall forever remain a render. Though it was designed by Ferrari under the tutelage of styling center boss Flavio Manzoni, it is categorically “not a production car, but a pioneering virtual project.”
Said project, named after Luigi Chinetti and Lord Selsdon’s triumph 76 years ago in a Touring-bodied 166 MM barchetta, wants to “redefine the boundaries of automotive design” where “form, function and performance merge as a single organism.” Because nobody wants multi-organism automotive design.
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So, let’s run through what we can see. A double fuselage that bullies the air that first meets the F76, retractable lights that pay tribute to the pop-ups favored by Ferrari in the ’70s and ’80s, and a ‘central channel’ that turns the entire body into a giant wing. Apparently, there is a lot of ground effect thrown in.
The vertical cuts on the arches are pure F80, while the ‘flow’ splits at the front, apparently, and reconnects at the back, where it flicks up into an integrated rear wing that sits atop the twin tails.
Said tails apparently help shift heat out of the “internal mechanical components,” which we’re totally reading as ‘helps cool massive shouty V12’ because this is all a dream.
Though we’ve not been shown the pretend inside, Ferrari said there are two separate cockpits that “enhance the shared driving experience.” There’s drive-by-wire tech, too.
“The F76 is a design manifesto which aims to prefigure the shapes of Ferraris of the future,” said Ferrari. So it’s not a real Ferrari, but it also very much could be a real Ferrari...
NOTE: This article first appeared on TopGear.com. Minor edits have been made.
