Pininfarina and a private individual in NY are working on a redesign of a 2003 Ferrari Enzo as a P4 style car and it will be shown at Pebble Beach this year.
rough translation
Ferrari will show in August at the concours d’elegance of Pebble Beach a study based on the Ferrari Enzo.

The designteam of Pininfarina are working on a new design for the Enzo. The design will be inspired by the Ferrari P4 from the sixties. The 'new' Enzo would be named 612 P4/5. Ken Okuyama, who also draw the 599 GTB Fiorano, would me responsible for the design.
With this designstudy, Ferrari is showing wich way it would go in the future.
The base of the car on Pebble Beach will be a modified carbonfibre chassis from the original Enzo. The engine will be the same 660bhp V12, and also the gearbox will be the same.
The car will have a better aerodynamic as the Enzo en will weight also less then the 1365kg of the original Enzo.
Rumours go the car will have a topspeed above 350km/u.
It's not the first tim Ferrari has a premiere at Pebble Beach, 2 years ago they showed the Superamerica to a selected public. This car went into production after good reactions.

Ferrari 330 P4 sports racer from 1960s
http://photocdn.sohu.com/20050513/Img225553784.jpg
Recent Ferrari Aurea Design sketch
http://www.autosrapidos.com/ferrari/archivos/ferrari-aurea01.jpg

Hottness.

Ewww Dont like the rendering at all.

That's what the Enzo kinda needed, lose the boxiness a bit and get swoopier lines :disco:

Hot as hell!

That car is pure sex!!

From ferrari.com:

Hmm...NASIOC likes it, I guess it's a go!

The P4 was awesome...I'd love to see a current Ferrari with styling influenced by that.

awesome looking car...i want to see more pics though.

From ferrari.com:

Luca Di Montezemolo in the corner pocket :disco: :banana: :lol:

it would be nice to see Ferrari re-do some of their classics. :)

The original is too damn sexy. The rendering makes me fear what the final product might look like.

p4= nicest ferrari ever- tood bad it wasnt a very succesful racer

Damn that looks hot. I'm all for function, but damn, the last enzo was just ugly as sin.

its not being built by ferrari. a well heeled bloke is commissioning pinfarina to take his existing 2003 Enzo and redesign it. making it a one of one car.

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92754

-patrick
blingbling mofo's

give it wings and i bet that thing could fly. :eek:

I need a towel...LOL Pure sex i agree

I always thought the old Enzo was hideous... but this rendering is HOT (like a hopped-up F430).

But honestly I don't buy it for a second. It seems that Ferrari is following the styling cues of the Scagaletti (or however you spell it), which I don't like at all.

i also like that version better than the enzo

Weird looking.

its not being built by ferrari. a well heeled bloke is commissioning pinfarina to take his existing 2003 Enzo and redesign it. making it a one of one car.

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92754

-patrick
blingbling mofo's
probably the SUltan of Brunei......

I'm not crazy about either the 599 GTB or Scaglietti, and while the original Enzo wasn't great looking, I think this thing looks even worse. Granted I've only seen 1 rendering from a weird angle....

^^^^^ nope. someone from the US. the enzo is already registered to an US owner.. read the link, the owner of that P4 is a member of Ferrari Chat.

p4= nicest ferrari ever- tood bad it wasnt a very succesful racer

i'm more of an f40 guy myself, but you cant argue with that p4. :eek:

its not being built by ferrari. a well heeled bloke is commissioning pinfarina to take his existing 2003 Enzo and redesign it. making it a one of one car.

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92754

-patrick
blingbling mofo's

Can you give us some more info about it, I'd rather not read through 30 pages on ferrari chat. Thanks - nevermind I'm getting the sense of it. Very interesting. That was always my problem with the Sultan of Brunei - most of his cars were kept secret.

I like this vision of the Enzo better.. and I can actually afford it!

http://cache.lego.com/images/shop/prod/8653-0000-xx-13-1.jpg

http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=8653

New Ferrari supercar already? The F40 was in the mid 80s F50 in the mid 90s F60/enzo in the mid 00s. Why are they popping out a new one already?

~Leor

Ferrari 612 P4/5 (Illustration by Autoweek)

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http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060327/FREE/60320024/1039/THISWEEKSISSUE


New exotic Ferrari
Pininfarina one-off coming this summer

A well-known collector has taken a page from history and commissioned a coach-built one-off Ferrari he hopes to debut center stage at a premier automotive event this summer.

And while this information has not officially been released, its source is reputable—the collector himself sharing details online. Whether this is a case of braggadocio or a done deal remains a question until the unique Ferrari is seen in its carbon fiber flesh; all else being equal, however, if it is for real, it undoubtedly will be a stunner.

New York-based collector James Glickenhaus spilled the fagioli over the last several months about his secret, custom “new” Ferrari 330 P4-inspired prototype in various chat rooms, specifically at ferrarichat.com. Glickenhaus, 55, a former B-movie writer/director/producer-turned Wall Street fund manager (Glickenhaus’ movie credits include Maniac Cop, Frankenhooker, Slaughter of the Innocents and Timemaster), is particularly passionate about the P3/4 (also known as the 412 P) and P4 models; only three of each model were produced in 1966 and ’67 and he owns one of them, worth up to $10 million.

For those who need a reminder of their history, the original Ferrari P3/4s beat the Ford GT40s at Daytona and won the constructors’ sports car championship in ’67, the year in which the GT40s won Le Mans.

This latest P4 one-off prototype, dubbed 612 P4/5, is based on an Enzo chassis and reportedly aims to compete in a new Prototype class at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in August. (As of this writing Pebble Beach Concours organizers have not yet extended invitations for participants, so Glickenhaus’ expectations might be premature.) This car’s goal, besides giving a collector a unique toy about which he can forever boast, is to project the sensuous P4 styling into the future.

Glickenhaus personally commissioned Pininfarina in 2005 to build his dream car, a carbon composite body penned by the same designers responsible for the Maserati Birdcage 75th show car to commemorate the firm’s 75th anniversary, and the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano that debuted earlier this month at the Geneva Motor Show. According to Glickenhaus in online postings, the 612 P4/5 with all-new carbon composite bodywork was executed by a Pininfarina designer identified only as “Jason.” Jason Castriota is the one credited with both the Maser and newest Ferraris exteriors.

Glickenhaus requested an unregistered U.S.-spec Enzo to get everything rolling. Middle of last year, Pininfarina and Ferrari of Beverly Hills found the only unregistered, un-driven 2003 Enzo on earth and shipped it, still shrink-wrapped in its factory protective white plastic, to Pininfarina to start its transformation.

Based on the highly detailed descriptions put forth by Glickenhaus, these computer-generated images show the 612 P4/5 for what it is. The traditional color chosen harks back to the blood red of the original P4 or, as Glickenhaus describes it, Alfa Romeo SF Rossa Corso. The nose is truncated and more aggressive than on an Enzo, allowing a functional approach angle vs. the Enzo’s long overhang (the Enzo’s electronic nose-lift function is kept in case). Placing a large front radiator horizontally and reclined on its side, as in the 1993 Ferrari 333 SP built for IMSA competition in the World Sports Car class, makes this gorgeous nose possible. Echoes of the 330 P4 envelop the car from nose to tail, with a decidedly modern take. Check out the white ceramic-coated exhausts tips poking out of the back panel.

Official sketches have not been released. Like the design on the Birdcage 75, the cabin has integrated carbon fiber structures incorporating a full roll cage. The windshield, roof and rear of the cabin are see-through, and in whole are tear-drop shaped as on a long line of famous Turin show cars.

According to Glickenhaus, the P4’s power remains the same as the Enzo’s at 651 horsepower. The P4 body is more efficient bending air in a wind tunnel than the Enzo, and it provides more downforce. The prototype reportedly weighs less than the 3009 pounds of its host, requiring a change in suspension settings, and the P4’s height is 1.5 inches lower than the car on which it is based. So thorough is Glickenhaus that even the 20-inch wheels are one-off customs shod with Michelin PAX Ultra High-Speed run-flat rubber. Since the Enzo was unregistered, this new P4 gets its own VIN—allowing it to be driven on the streets of all 50 states.

Glickenhaus hints that the cost of 612 P4/5 has approached the going price of an Enzo ($1 million-plus) plus another $3 million. In an effort to share his vision with the rest of the world, among the several scenarios discussed online has Glickenhaus “crashing” the Paris auto salon in September. Stay tuned for how the French turn out for that premier.


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Official sketches have not been released.

Just wanted to post this before a slurry of comments on the styling.

New Ferrari supercar already? The F40 was in the mid 80s F50 in the mid 90s F60/enzo in the mid 00s. Why are they popping out a new one already?

~Leor
Ferrari is not introducing a new car. When I first posted I mistakenly assumed/implied this was their project but if you read the autoweek story it is being done by an individual and Pininfarina.

As long as you have riches like Croessus, Pininfarina will do pretty much anything you want. They are a coachbuilder, after all.

Witness, in all its glory, the Ferrari 456GT Estate - http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/magazine/3200.asp?id=10779