One-off Ferrari Conciso visits Jay Leno’s Storage
Any common reader of Motor Authority might be accustomed to the Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina. The coach-built creation surprised the automotive world at its debut again in 2006, together with Ferrari, which was so enamored that the automaker acknowledged the automotive as an official Ferrari.
Nevertheless, the Enzo-based P4/5 by Pininfarina is barely the most recent in a protracted collection of formally acknowledged coach-built Ferraris that dates again to the earliest days of the Prancing Horse. For example, within the 1990s, there was the Ferrari Conciso.
1989 Ferrari 328 GTS Conciso
Based mostly on the bones of a Ferrari 328 GTS, the Conciso was the brainchild of German designer Bernd Michalak, who was the automotive’s first proprietor. The present proprietor is Italian Franco Valobra, who just lately introduced it by Jay Leno’s Storage.
Except for the radically totally different form, which many describe as resembling a shoe, the physique is made completely from aluminum to shed kilos. We’re speaking an 800-pound weight discount, bringing the ultimate determine right down to about 1,960 kilos.
1989 Ferrari 328 GTS Conciso
Searching for doorways? There are not any, and the motive force has to do their finest hop and bounce to enter the Conciso. A hard and fast roof? It is a convertible solely. And the windshield? Frameless for driving pleasure, not for security.
On the within, the 328 GTS Conciso is fairly barren with a driver-focused cockpit, save for the truth that crucial gauges, the speedometer and tachometer, are offset to the fitting. However, if the motive force desires to see the oil temperature and gasoline degree, that is straight entrance and middle.
1989 Ferrari 328 GTS Conciso
The powertrain stays all-Ferrari, naturally, with a three.2-liter V-Eight mounted transversely within the rear and producing round 270 horsepower. A 5-speed handbook handles shifting duties. On the time, a 328 GTS might crack Zero-60 mph in 5.9 seconds, however the time needs to be higher with the Conciso’s weight financial savings.
Sure, it might look a bit bizarre, maybe even a bit wacky, however the Ferrari Conciso is a severe efficiency automotive with an excessive ethos that leaves many trendy supercars and even some hypercars in its shadow.
