What do you do when you’ve got a spare few million in the bank and every race car on the planet just isn’t good enough for you? You ask Ferrari to build you this, the one-off Ferrari KC23.
Based on a Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo race car, the KC23 is the last word in the Maranello-based company’s ability to build a race-ready track toy. As a result, this driving machine is not road legal, and it also bends some of the rules when it comes to the circuit. Per TopGear, it’s been said that the car is a “radical one-off car completely free of homologation constraints.”
Taking this into consideration, we find a re-bodied 488 GT3 Evo that draws elements from the marque’s top-of-the-range Daytona SP3 hypercar. For example, the front end is low to the ground and anchored by a front lip surrounded by a strip of LED lighting, digging toward a stack of horizontal vents. This flows into a clamshell hood, louvered for extra cooling, before drawing the eye to a cabin section flanked by a set of butterfly doors.
The Daytona SP3 references appear at the back too, with a large vented rear deck flowing neatly into a light strip that shadows a large diffuser, in which two central exhaust pipes are found between the two elements. A removable rear wing and motorized air intake vents add to the drama of this liquid metal “Gold Mercury” car, but of course, they also add aerodynamic efficiency.
To round out the car, it has been given the marque’s signature 3.9-liter twin-turbo V8 to make an undisclosed amount of power (although it’ll be more than 600 BHP given the car’s foundations). This powers the rear wheels only, and all of it is managed by the underpinnings taken from the 488 GT3 Evo.
Take a look at the car above, because that’s probably the only time you’ll ever get to see it.
Elsewhere, Caterham has unveiled its all-electric Project V sports car.
