2010 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta Inspired By One Of The Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe - Automotive News

2010 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta

2010 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta. The car, the second one in a brand new Special Projects programme created by way of Ferrari to satisfy requests from the maximum discerning customers and collectors to create surely unique models, is primarily based at the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and turned into stimulated through a Carrozzeria Fantuzzi-designed Ferrari built in particular for the 1968 Fellini film, Toby Dammit, itself stimulated by using one of the testimonies of Edgar Allan Poe. The first shake-down has been held at Fiorano of a very unique one-off, the Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta, constructed for an American patron.

2010 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta

2010 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta

In accordance with the Special Project's approach to producing such individual one-offs, the Ferrari 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. As the 599 GTB Fiorano donor car is a coupé, considerable effort went into strengthening the chassis by using finite element analysis in development and the increase in weight was kept down to just 20 kg by employing carbon-fibre extensively. From the initial sketches to the final, road-legal car took just 14 months. As the client took delivery of the car at Fiorano his excitement was understandable: "This is the most special Christmas present of my life."

2010 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta

This special Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta's colour was inspired by the film "Toby Dammit", one of the three episodes of the film "Histoires Extraordinaires" made in 1968 based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

"Toby Dammit", the third of the 3 episodes, directed with the aid of Federico Fellini, with Terence Stamp Salvo Randone and Milena Vukotic, based totally on the story "Never Bet The Devil Your Head".

The different two episodes, "Metzengerstein" and "William Wilson", had been directed by way of Roger Vadim and Louis Malle.

2010 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta

Technical specifications :

# Length: 4731 mm

# Width: 1954 mm

# Height: 1300 mm

# Wheelbase: 2750 mm

# Front tune: 1690 mm

# Rear music: 1620 mm

2010 Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta

# Engine

- Type: 65 V12

- Displacement: 5999 cc

- Maximum energy: 456 kW (620 CV) at 7600 rpm

- Maximum torque: 608 Nm (sixty two kgm) at 5600 rpm

# Transmission: F1 6-velocity gearbox

# Tyres

- Front: 245/35 20"

- Rear: 305/35 20"

# Fuel consumption

- Combined cycle: 17.9 l/one hundred km

- CO2 emissions: 415 g/km