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One-Off Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta Delivered

Italian supercar manufacturer Ferrari recently unveiled a special one-off car built for an American customer. Dubbed P540 Superfast Aperta, the car is based on the 599 GTB Fiorano. The car was inspired by a Carrozzeria Fantuzzi-designed Ferrari built specifically for the 1968 Federico Fellini film, Toby Dammit, one of the three episodes of the “Histoires Extraordinaires” film inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's stories.

The car is the second in the Special Projects programme created by Ferrari, and it is now owned by Edward Walson, son of John Walson, the inventor of cable TV, who wanted a modern reinterpretation of the gold-colored car featured in the aforementioned film.

“I had always dreamed of designing sports cars,”
Walson said in a statement for the press, “and when I saw this film the decision came of its own accord: one day I would have ‘my’ Ferrari.”

The one-off P540 Superfast Aperta respects all existing international safety and homologation requirements and is thus road legal.

The car was designed by Pininfarina and built in Maranello, and the client was directly involved in each stage of its development. It reportedly took just 14 months to be built from the initial sketches to the final, road-legal version.

“This is the most special Christmas present of my life,”
Walson said as he was handed over the car.

Powering the car is a 65-degree 5,999 cc V12 engine paired with a F1 6-speed gearbox, able to develop 456 kW (620 HP) at 7,600 rpm and 608 Nm of torque at 5,600 rpm. It reportedly has a fuel consumption figure of 17.9 l/100 km and 415 g/km of CO2 emissions on a combined cycle.
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