Is This Test Mule Something To Do With The Ferrari '488 GTO'?
Beneath all the gaffer tape and body cladding of this mystery test mule lies something rather potent. Judging by the much larger intakes it’s clearly no ordinary 488, so could it be the rumoured 488 GTO/Speciale Ferrari is supposedly cooking up?
The uploader - Automotive Mike, who shot the car in the vicinity of the Nurburgring - speculates that the car has some sort of Kers hybrid system. He might be on to something - you’d think it’d only be a matter of time before the LaFerrari’s F1-inspired Kers tech filtered down to the rest of the range, after all.
Furthermore, fellow YouTuber Marchettino spotted another test mule last year - a sort of 458/488 mish-mash - and claimed to have heard a technician say ““don’t turn on the Kers system,” off camera.
The only thing we can truly be sure of is that the end product will be monstrously fast.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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“10 essential items to have IN your car: #1 Duct Tape” - Instructions unclear, Ferrari put it ON the car
comment of the week right there
Possibly a GTO for Flux (7.0) to drool over!
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH!
New F40 would be cool…
It would be a F80
No. The LaFerrari was the new F40. It goes F40, F50, Enzo, LaFerrari.
No kidding! What i meant was that it could be a new, twin turbo, v8, hybrid, stripped down ferrari hypercar. A spiritual successor if you want.
I mis-read something and thought it said, “speculates that the car has some sort of KERS hybrid system. He may be on something.”
it will be called Ferrari 488 SuperDuperFast3000
Please we need another supercar manufacturer…I want to sed depreciation hitting 2x as hard as it does already