Right on cue, just ahead of Ferrari’s 60th-anniversary festivities scheduled to celebrate the maker’s diamond anniversary in the U.S., Ferrari has unveiled the F60 America.
Announced on the 10th day of the 10th calendar month, production of the F60 America is capped at just 10 examples. In keeping with the deca-theme, the F60 America’s reputed $2.5-million cost is just a weekend at the craps tables short of ringing in at 10 times the $320,000 price tag of the Ferrari F12berlinetta, the car upon which the F60 America is based. It must also be noted that if you’re just now hearing about this car, you’re already too late to buy one: 10 rich collectors have already snapped up all 10 examples.
Designed to combine the delights of a V-12 engine and open-top driving, which Ferrari says are its U.S. clientele’s “two great passions,” the F60 America doesn’t have a roof, the better to display a pair of leather-trimmed roll hoops that flow into carbon-fiber-trimmed flying buttresses. Ferrari says owners can fit a light fabric top that’s usable at speeds of up to approximately 75 mph. The front-mid-mounted V-12 is likely unchanged from the 730-hp unit in the F12 and can, Ferrari says, propel the F60 from 0 to 60 mph in 3.1 seconds.
The exterior is rendered in blue with a center white stripe, the livery of famed importer Luigi Chinetti’s NART outfit (North American Racing Team), with 60th-anniversary prancing-horse badges applied to the fenders and the center tunnel in the cabin. In a nod to old racing Ferraris, the interior is done up asymmetrically, with the driver’s side finished with red trim and upholstery while the passenger’s accommodations are black. Stripes on the seats reminiscent of Old Glory finish off the treatment.
Ferrari is hailing the F60 America as a return to its midcentury tradition of producing limited-edition, build-to-order models, likening it to the 1960s request by Chinetti for an open version of the 275GTB4 to sell to North American clients; this resulted in 10 1967 275GTS4 NART Spyders being produced.
