F60America is just the cherry on the cake of Ferrari’s celebration. The Italian automaker is toasting sixty years of North-American sales, so it decided to create a limited-edition model exclusively for that market. As if this wasn’t interesting enough, it waited to release it on the tenth day of the tenth calendar month, which makes complete sense when you consider it will be limited to just ten units. As you can imagine, this car will be extremely difficult to spot on the streets not only for having few units, but also because they must be extremely expensive. They are very few, indeed, but this is on purpose: each one is expected to cost 2,5 million dollars. Too much for you? Well, the truth is it doesn’t matter, anyway: the car is already sold out.
During a gala dinner at Beverly Hills City Hall, Ferrari showed the car it claims to combine “American clients' two great passions - the V12 engine and open-top driving”. The decision in favor of a limited production was motivated by cases such as the 275 GTS4 NART (North American Racing Team) Spider, a convertible version of the regular 275 GTB4 personally requested to Enzo Ferrari by importer Luigi Chinetti to the US customers in 1967. The model is based on F12berlinetta, but has enough changes to be considered another car. The re-created external design uses more aggressive bumpers (big air intake at the front, big air diffuser at the rear), new wheels, and an exclusive blue paint with a center stripe in white.
If you’re missing Ferrari’s signature color, the cabin will give you some relief… although combined with surprise. As a tribute to the old racing Ferraris, F60America’s interior uses an asymmetrical design, which seems intended to make the red color accessible only to the driver. That is, you’ll find it on the left seat and door panel and on parts of the central console, but just the parts dedicated to the driver. While the auxiliary gauges are surrounded in red, to give an example, the climate controls remained in the same black used by the parts supposedly dedicated to the only passenger. Other items require more attention to be noticed: the Prancing Horse badges appear on the fenders and the center tunnel, and repeat the 60-anniversary theme.
Do you remember when the text quoted Ferrari about North-Americans loving open-top cars? This is F60America’s next huge feature: its project never considered a roof. What you can find are “two leather-trimmed roll-hoops (…) backed by carbon-fibre-trimmed flying buttresses which stretch from behind the cockpit to the rear, imbuing the elegant harmonious forms of the tail with a sense of movement”. Sounds nice, right? But you shouldn’t worry about rainy days, because Ferrari’s immediately following comment would be the fact that “the F60America can be closed with a light fabric top usable at speeds of up to 120 km/h”. This vehicle’s final way to seduce US customers is the aforementioned V12 engine, which takes the car from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.1 seconds.