This Long-Tail LaFerrari Prototype Is What Ferrari’s LaFerrari Would Look Like If It Actually Looked Cool

I’ve got a hot take for you: Ferrari’s first hybrid hypercar, the 2013-18 LaFerrari, is definitely the worst automotive Ferrari has in-built many years. I’m not anti-hybrid, I believe that’s the only cool a part of this automotive, actually. But I hate all the pieces else about this automotive. The name is bad, it looks atrocious, and it’s extremely dumb that at this point, the owners of those cars have had to interchange the hybrid battery because they do not put enough miles on the automotive to maintain the batteries from conking out. It must have been called the F70 (just because the Enzo must have been called F60, but that is a fight for one more day), and it must have looked like this automotive right here. No less than with the V12 engine, it sounded good.

Built over a 12 months before the primary LaFerrari models were delivered to their latest owners, this prototype vehicle known internally because the “F150 Mulotipo MP1,” is precisely what the automotive must have been. It is a automotive with some ungainly bodywork, uneven panel gaps, exposed carbon fiber, and a stripped back racing-inspired aesthetic that harkens back to the Nineteen Eighties icon, the F40. Not only does this automotive crib from the Ferrari parts bin so much more aggressively (see the 458-style headlamp assemblies for proof?), however it just flows higher as a form-follows-function construct than the production automotive. 

This Mulotipo served the Ferrari engineers to develop the V12 engine and its integration with the F1-inspired HY-KERS hybrid system. From March of 2012 through August of 2013, the engineers put some 22,000 miles on this chassis in an effort to validate the powertrain for production readiness. Between 2011 and 2013 at the least half a dozen prototypes were built and driven, though this was the primary to be based on the proposed carbon fiber chassis exclusive to the LaFerrari. Many earlier prototypes were built from stretched and modified 458 Italias.

This particular automotive has been sold before, because it was a headliner at Mecum’s Monterey auction in 2022, where it sold for $1,595,000. Other LaFerrari prototypes, particularly the 2 that wear standard LaFerrari clothes, have sold for more. The 2014 PS1 prototype brought $2.5 million at the identical Monterey auction in 2022, just like the $2.45 million number brought by the 2012 P2 prototype in dazzle camo, which sold earlier this 12 months at RM Sotheby’s Arizona auction. Will this oddly-shaped-but-in-my-opinion-prettier LaFerrari have appreciated in value since 2022? Even when it goes for 3 million, it’s still a less expensive solution to experience this sort of Ferrari speed than a street-legal LaFerrari. A low-mile example sold at RM Sotheby’s Miami sale in February for an eye-watering $6,880,000. 

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This automotive would make for perhaps the good trackday automotive of all time. Not only would you have got paid a fraction of a “regular” LaF, but you’d have a high-mile regular-use example that will not lose value with miles added. Go take it out on course, as it is not street legal anymore anyway, and have a blast. And look cool as heck doing it. 

In the event you’re inquisitive about bidding on this wild long-tail machine with one-off Ferrari components and hand-assembled care, then you definitely’d higher get your butt in a seat and get a bidder paddle in your hand when it crosses the dais at Mecum’s upcoming Indianapolis sale. It’s lot S140 going up on Saturday, the sixteenth of May. Bring a fat stack or two, since it won’t go low-cost. Or possibly it is going to, it’s a no-reserve listing, in spite of everything. In the event you can get this thing home for lower than a mil, you’ve got won the sport. Here’s hoping you’re the just one within the room who looks like owning this matte black monster.