Thursday, April 10, 2025

The world's only Ferrari F40 with a V12 engine is looking for a new owner

Officially, 1,311 copies of the Ferrari F40 were built at the factory in Maranello. All with V8 engine. Since then, however, an exception has been made for the car here.

At the factory in Maranello, Ferrari probably built this F40 at the dawn of time. But the Italians have nothing to do with the later reconstruction.

Instead of the 2.9-liter V8 engine with twin turbos, a 5.5-liter V12 engine from a 550 Maranello has found its way into the center-engined sports car.

When this particular F40 does not look like most F40s, it is because the bodywork is actually from the special model F40 LM, of which only 19 copies were built.

However, this particular F40 LM was used for a crash test and really just… well, scrapped after the test. But for unknown reasons the car survived and was rebuilt by racing choirs with a 550 Maranello engine 'in stock'.

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The racing driver Mauro Baldi tested the car in 2003, and 21 years ago he had no doubts about the car's qualities and what the conversion had done for the already legendary car.

– It is even better than the usual F40 LM, he said after taking the car for a spin on the Vallelunga race track, located 20 minutes north of Rome.

Today, the rebuilt F40 is officially retired from life as a racing car. Although a new owner is free to let the car loose on some asphalt again.

There's just that about the price. Compared to the other F40s that have been kept original, the car here is actually cheap. Iconic Auctions , which has the car for sale, expects the car to fetch somewhere between £500,000 and £600,000.

It is 5.3 million kroner if the prices go high during the auction. By comparison, the cars that are still kept factory original are happy to trade for prices up to £3.2 million. That is 28.3 million Danish kroner.

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