Ciao everyone, here it's Marchettino!
So, today seems to be my lucky day,
I was walking around the gates of Ferrari's factory in Maranello when I stumbled upon this!
On a first view, it might look like a Ferrari 458 ready to be trashed in a junkyard I mean,
just look at the conditions of the car!
But from what I've heard
this could be the prototype of the new Ferrari Dino which is supposed to be unveiled the next year!
There are lots of elements that make me think that this is nothing but a ordinary 458,
it's not new from Ferrari to use the base of older models but fitted
with the mechanical components of the new models that have to come out.
And they do that obviously because they don't want people to see the final look of the car prior the official unveiling.
There are lots of things to look at on this car but the first thing that I wanted to see
was the paper on the dashboard and it says F142M M3
F142 is the internal code name for Ferrari reserved to for 488GTB
and this makes me think that the new Ferrari Dino will be based mostly on the Ferrari 488.
Another element that is quite noticeable on this prototype is certainly the side air intake which is quite big and this
makes me think that this car is certainly twin-turbocharged.
This prototype is also fitted with the wheels of the - sorry I'm walking through the nature - sadly I cannot go over because that's Ferrari's private property
but we can have a look anyway.
I was saying, we can look also that this car is showcasing the wheels of the 458 Speciale,
the rear bumper is missing and sadly I would have loved to have a look in the back.
There are no Ferrari badges on the car but yeah, you can really tell that's a Ferrari.
And another thing that I've noticed is on both sides of the front bumper you can see two holes covered with lots of bolts around which makes me think
that Ferrari is hiding two additional air intakes.
We can have a glimpse also at a Ferrari California testing mule right there and another one
right there,
I can see lots of wires popping out the roof and the hood which makes me think they're testing some kind of facelift or a new version for the future.
Talking about being in the right place at the right time, I even managed to hear the car and see it moving!
They moved the car in another place and we can see it even from this side
and from what I can tell is that the car sounded like a V8 to me so
I'm not sure that was the Ferrari Dino and when my camera wasn't running one of the two technicians said
" Don't turn on the KERS system! " and when he said that I was like
OMG what the hell is that?!
So I don't really know what I just filmed!
F142 is indeed the code name of the 488
and what if this could be something like a super hardcore track-focused version of the 488?
I don't know but what I just saw was absolutely incredible and exciting!
Now I guess it's time to walk away before I get shot by somebody of Ferrari and
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