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This is the 812 Superfast that Ferrari should have made in the first place.
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There’s no question that modern Ferraris are mind-blowing pieces of engineering with performance numbers that border on shocking and can get you re-calibrating how fast it is.
Unfortunately, and this is subjective, obviously, it’s not always the prettiest things on four wheels. Take, for example, the 812 Superfast. It has a massive naturally aspirated V12 under its hood and rage at its heart, but it also has more scoops, carry-overs, lines, angles, and creases than you can move with a stick. That last part is undoubtedly what inspired a very wealthy person to convince Ferrari to try to smooth the 812.
The result is the 812 Omologata (homologation in Italian, also where the O comes from in GTO) is just that: a smoothed 812 Superfast. Where once there were ducts and spacers, now we have smooth, sumptuous curves. Oh, and grids. The rear window has louvers. It’s amazing.
The bodywork has been hand-formed from aluminum by the team at Ferrari’s in-house design studio. However, the fact that it is aluminum and not carbon fiber or magnesium or some other yet undiscovered strange metal shouldn’t make you think that it is less performance minded than the car it is based on. The changes in the Omologata are only superficial.
Inside the car, you get some four-point seatbelts and vintage-inspired hammer-tone painted surfaces to make them look like good old-fashioned cast metal. Ferrari even came up with a crinkle paint finish for the dash to mimic their racing specials from the 1960s. It’s very, very good. Outside, the brand with the rearing horse kicked the Rosso Corsa paint bucket out of the barn and came up with a darker and very beautiful shade called Rosso Magma.
Ferrari will naturally not reveal which of its incredibly wealthy and incredibly dedicated to the brand commissioned the Omologata. Still, given the brand’s long-established practice of favorites with customers based on purchase history, etc., this may not be the only world-class Italian stud they have in their garage.
Ferrari 812 Omologata is the front-engined GT car we’ve always wanted from Maranello
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