Nother CarGuy

There are one-off Ferrari projects and then there’s the new P80/C. Ferrari spent almost four years developing this unique track car — the longest time of any Ferrari one-off made to date. That’s because the company took a different approach than with its one-off cars in the past, with the P80/C being the result of in-depth styling research, lengthy engineering development, as well as “scrupulous aerodynamic testing.” Commissioned by TK, an unnamed customer Ferrari describes as “a great connoisseur of the Ferrari world,” the P80/C is an entirely new and modern take on the Ferrari sports prototype concept. The client’s brief was to create a modern sports prototype inspired by two iconic models from Ferrari’s history: the 330 P3/P4 and the 1966 Dino 206 S. That was no easy task for the Ferrari Styling Centre because it had to develop a new kind of product that did not exist in the current lineup. More specifically, it had to design a sports prototype inspired by cars that esse...