Pininfarina Ferrari P4/5 Competizione planned
 

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Had a nice conversation with JG about this, and some other things back in July, and early August. Exciting for sure... basically, the car wouldn't adhere to most racing regulations for homologation etc.... and the 24 h of NS has already agreed that this potential car would fit some class, or some new class would be created for it. Hopefully this happens :)

ADAC allows a pretty wide range of cars to run at 24h Nürburgring. Heck, they let preproduction prototypes and concept cars run in the race, why not this?

am I alone in thinking a street ferrari looking like that would become the highest selling ferrari of all time? hold on, [kanye impersonation] "Ima let you finish", but it would be the highest selling ferrari OF ALL TIME!

/kanye jack ass west impersonation

You do know there is one (well only 1), right? That is what this is based off of.

I'm sure he's aware of that. And he's spot on. :mrgreen:

Sadly, this car will forever remind me of the Mantide for obvious reasons.

yep, I know there is one, currently owned by Glikenhaus, the richest wallstreet mobster in existence

what I am referring to is the fact that ferrari made one bonehead move after another in the last decade, california? WTF? please... after the F355 ferrari lost its lustre, if they would produce something like this themselves and sell it as a street car, it would undoubtedly become the prancing horse of the century, and you and I know there are not many more years of nice looking supercars left, sure they had the Modena, the 430, the 599gtb, 612 scaglietti... BUT, none of those cars evoke raw evil, sexy, uniqueness to me, sure there is the Enzo, but for all its praise, even if I had the money, I would not buy an enzo, it is just not a pretty car. I wanna fall in love with ferraris again, kinda like I fell in love with Aston Martins after I saw a DB9 in the flesh, but I cannot, everytime I think of the california I want to put rubbing alcohol in my eyes.

I got you. I should have known better than to think you wouldn't know that. :-)

Any idea if Luigi (son of NART founder) is involved with this? Cause I can already hear the lawyers barking about this....

No, Luigi Chenetti Jr. is not involved, and the car will NOT fly under a NART banner. The photoshop was done only to express ideas independently of JG by Michael Mobile (sp?).

The only lawyers barking could be @ autoblog, and jalopnik for not reading the contents of Glickenhaus' thread on Fchat and reporting "accurately."

This also reminds me that I need to finished the 3D rendering of the P4/5 that I started years ago but never finished. Made it to about 20 percent complete, then got sidetracked. :(

Heh.. damn, I was gonna say - this would be a great way to revive the NART.

BTW, that porker looks killer :)

Thanks :) She's my new lady friend.. Just have to treat her right - but I've been daily driving her into the Bronx and Manhattan since July.. Such a great drivers car!

I live in Newark and drive into Manhattan 3 times a week, I daily drive both my RX7 and the VR4, but I treat them right, my brother owns a car like yours, except black, they are very nice

is it a turbo, 2.5, or a 3.0 ? Looks like 993 turbo wheels on her. Do tell :)

It's a 1991 S2, 3.0. The owner I bought it from said they were turbo twist wheels (cup 3) but I think they are actually off of a Boxter..

I treat her right too.. but the thing is, I still feel a Japanese car is a better daily driver. Granted I've only owned two used Germans, I've grown up beating on Toyotas.

German cars you HAVE to maintain. If you do, you're golden. If you don't, all hell will break loose and you'll pay up the ass.

A Japanese car will take the beating, sometimes break, and all you gotta do is fix what broke.. also parts/labor are cheaper.

Yet another rendering

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^SWEET! Can't wait to see the real deal race.

It should be really interesting. Who would build the car? Glickenhaus said that he's not converting the P4/5 made for him by Pininfarina.

Would Pininfarina make him another P4/5? Would he hire someone else to fabricate the car?

It would have to be a ground up fabrication, not based on any production chassis - CF tubs are not allowed.

Actually, he can possibly build it on a MC12 race car, itself based on the Enzo.

why not using the FXX Evo, and just modify the bodywork and other stuff

Because when you buy an FXX or an FXX Evo, you have no control of your car. Ferrari does. And FXX isn't made for racing either, so why bother? MC12 Corsa is the most logical choice if it's going to be based on an Enzo platform, no?

CF tubs are not allowed in the specific race series; however there will be an existing Ferrari chassis made of aluminum, and modified with a steel cage where the rules dictate. Rumors suggest a 333sp V12 may be used in the unknown existing ferrari based race chassis; but a v8 seems more likely.

Also, it is being made / prepped by a former PF employee, and will likely not carry the Ferrari badge, or PF badge, but who knows!