There is no doubt that modern Ferraris have captivating parts of engineering that have a shocking frontier with performance statistics and can quickly recapture your idea of what is.
Unfortunately – and this is subjective, obviously – it’s not always pretty things on four wheels. Take 812 Superfast, for example. He’s got anger and a naturally aspiring V12 under his hood, and anger at his heart, but he also has more scoops, pass-thrones, lines, angles and creases than you can shake a stick with. It is the last part of the New Testament that inspired a very wealthy man to persuade Ferrari to travel to the convenience of 1212.
The result is the same as 812 Omologeta (Italian for homolog, where O also comes in the GTO) – Smooth Out 812 Superfast. Where once there were tubes and splitters, now we have a smooth and elegant turn. Oh, and Lovers. The back window has a louver. Nice.
The team designed the body out of aluminum at Ferrari’s in-house design studio. The fact that it is aluminum and not carbon fiber or magnesium or any other weird, because the metal we have yet to find makes you think that it should not be less effective than the car based on it. The change in omologata is only skin-deep.
Inside the car, you get some four-point seatbelts and cool, vintage-inspired hammertone painted surfaces to look like good old-fashioned cast metal. Ferrari also came up with a wrinkle-paint finish for the dash to mimic its racing specials from the 1960s. It’s very, very good. Outside, the brand with parenting horses kicked Rosso Corsa’s bucket out of the barn and called it Rosso Magma with a darker, more elegant shade.
Ferrari will naturally not tell which of its wealthiest and most dedicated-to-dedicated customers the olog mologate commission. However, given the brand’s long-established practice of playing favorite games with customers based on purchase history, etc., you may find that they may not have this world-class Italian stallion in their garage.
The Ferrari 812 Omologate is the front-engine GT car we’ve always wanted from the Marenello
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