Right on cue, just ahead of Ferrari's 60th-anniversary festivities scheduled to celebrate the maker's diamond anniversary in the U.S., Ferrari has unveiled the F60 America.
Unveiled on the 10th day of the 10th calendar month, production of the F60 America is capped at just 10 examples. In keeping with the deca-theme, the F60 America's reputed $2.5-million cost is just a weekend at the craps tables short of ringing in at 10 times the $320,000 price tag of the Ferrari F12berlinetta, the car upon which the F60 America is based. It must also be noted that if you're just now hearing about this car, you're already too late: 10 rich collectors have already snapped up all 10 examples.
Designed to combine the delights of a V-12 engine and open-top driving, which Ferrari says are its U.S. clientele's "two great passions," the F60 America doesn't have a roof, the better to display a pair of leather-trimmed roll hoops that flow into carbon-fiber-trimmed flying buttresses. Ferrari says owners can fit a light fabric top that's usable at speeds of up to approximately 75 mph. The front-mid-mounted V-12 is likely unchanged from the 730-hp unit in the F12, and can, Ferrari say, propel the F60 from zero to 60 mph in 3.1 seconds.
The exterior is rendered in blue with a center white stripe, the livery of famed importer Luigi Chinetti's N.A.R.T. outfit (North American Racing Team), with 60th-anniversary prancing horse badges applied to the fenders and the center tunnel in the cabin. In a nod to old racing Ferraris, the interior is done up asymmetrically, with the driver's side finished with red trim and upholstery while the passenger's accommodations are black. Stripes on the seats reminiscent of Old Glory finish off the treatment.
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Ferrari is hailing the F60 America as a return to its mid-century tradition of producing limited-edition, build-to-order models, and likens it to the 1960s request by Chinetti for an open version of the 275 GTB4 to sell to North American clients; this resulted in 10 1967 275 GTS4 NART Spyders being produced. May we suggest that those who didn't make the list of 10 for the F60 perhaps mitigate their sorrow with some of our limited-edition Ferrari art prints by Günther Raupp?
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