We might just have to find a new topic for the sweet dreams that keep us entertained over the night, as the LaFerrari Spider has just been revealed in the video below.
As you can see, the open-air version of the Prancing Horse halo car comes with a partial canvas top, while the cloth roof seems to be flanked by a pair of bars - you can check out the spy video below for all the details, with the hyper-hybrid having been caught on camera while driven inside the Maranello factory.
It's still too early to be certain about the manner in which the roof is operated, but it looks like the Italians are asking the lucky future owners to go for some manual labor.
Sure, conspiracy theory supporters could even claim the canvas sitting atop this LaF is there just to camouflage the actual roof, but this is probably not the case. In fact, if we put our trust in the LaFerrari Spider scale model we showed you back in June (images below), the story looks like a 2017 smart fortwo Cabrio déjà vu.
This would see the canvas section of the roof being power-folded into a compartment behind the passenger cell, thus creating a massive sunroof. As for the complete open-top experience, it should arrive after the pair of roof bars are manually detached and stowed into a compartment that should be found in the nose of the 950 hp (963 PS) Fezza. We've added a video showing how the system works on the German city car below.
The rest of the story is still a Rosso Corsa box full of unanswered questions. For one thing, the automaker will obviously give the $1.4 million price tag of the fixed-roof model a serious bump, but we'll have to wait and see what the actual price of the hypercar is.
Heck, even the production run hasn't been made public yet. While the world was blessed with 499 LaFerrari coupes, the rumor mill talks about Ferrari only planning to build between 150 and 200 Spiders. So you probably have to tattoo a Prancing Horse logo on your internal organs to gain access to such a piece of machinery.
The best rumor so far? It seems the LaFerrari Spider has already removed its roof for customer's eyes during a private event held back in March.
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