FERRARI F80, THE FLYING UFO

It is not every day that you see a sculpture capable of travelling at 350 km/h. But when the pencils behind it are the hand of Flavio Manzoni and his team, we have now learnt that anything is possible. “With the Ferrari F80 we wanted to break all the codes. To go beyond, to create something unique,” says Manzoni, whom we meet in the e-Building in Maranello, the new factory designed by Mario Cucinella where the new Ferrari will be built from January. “Right from the first drawings four years ago, the intention was to create a car that would refer to futurism, that would also be a manifesto of Ferrari’s new stylistic canons: we left the human dimension behind to move towards something more avant-garde inspired by aeronautics: a flying UFO”. The F80 belongs to the Supercar category, the one that at Maranello translates into prestige and sportiness: 799 examples produced, 3.6 million euro price tag, and a decidedly cumbersome legacy given that its ancestors are called the LaFerrari, Enzo, F50, F40 and 288 GTO. An ideal model, then, for experimenting with new ideas, designed with the intention of remaining immortal.