Ferrari will reportedly unveil the successor to the hybrid LaFerrari in October 2024 and this spy video appears to have captured a prototype of this new hypercar for the very first time.
The heavily-camouflaged prototype appears to feature a plethora of parts from pre-existing Ferrari models and if this is indeed the brand’s future hypercar, the production model will likely look quite different. Nonetheless, the tester suggests that the car will be just as wild as its predecessor.
At the front, we can see what appear to be the same headlights as the 296 GTB positioned on either side of a sculpted hood with large air extraction vents. The car manufacturer has also equipped the prototype with a pronounced front splitter and squared-off front quarter panels and wheel arches.
The prototype’s sides look similarly unrefined with boxy skirts, door panels, and rear fenders. In all likelihood, all of these panels are simply being used to help hide the car’s identity and will share no similarities to those of the eventual production model. Ferrari did something similar when it was developing the LaFerrari, starting out with a 458 Italia and then adorning it with a host of fake panels.
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The most intriguing aspects of this prototype are found at the rear. First is the towering rear wing. Ferrari is not a fan of equipping its road cars with big spoilers and wings so seeing one like this on a prototype is quite surprising. Nevertheless, we would be shocked if the eventual hypercar had a wing like this and suspect it is simply being used for aerodynamic testing. An over-the-top diffuser with huge venturi tunnels is also visible.
Technical aspects of the car are not yet known but a slide from a presentation from Ferrari’s future business plan, that emerged last year, indicated that the vehicle would have some kind of turbocharged engine and have technology transferred from both Formula 1 and Ferrari’s Le Mans Hypercar program.