Ferrari could also be engaged on a brand new mannequin impressed by its 499P LMH race automotive that succeeded in taking house the general win on the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.
CarBuzz has found that Ferrari has made strikes to safe the names 499 GTB, 499 GTS, 499 Speciale, and 499P Modificata with a trademark workplace in Italy.
Purposes for every of the logos have been filed by Ferrari earlier in July.
The primary three names trace at highway automobiles impressed by the 499P whereas the fourth hints at a observe automotive probably based mostly on the Le Mans winner.
GTB stands for “Gran Turismo Berlinetta” and is usually utilized by Ferrari for coupe fashions. Equally, GTS stands for “Gran Turismo Spider” and is usually utilized by the automaker for convertibles, whereas Speciale is usually utilized by Ferrari for hardcore fashions, just like the 458 Speciale.
2023 Ferrari 499P LMH race automotive
The 499P Modificata title hints at one thing alongside the traces of 2020’s 488 GT Modificata, a observe automotive intently associated to the 488 GT3 and 488 GTE race automobiles.
There have been earlier Ferrari highway automobiles named after race automobiles that have been fully unrelated, that means these newest names may very well be used for automobiles sharing little in frequent with the 499P. The newest is the SF90 Stradale which was named after Ferrari’s SF90 2019 System 1 race automotive.
Automakers even have a behavior of trademarking names merely to guard mental property, whether or not they plan to make use of the names or not. Trademarking a reputation a minimum of offers an automaker the choice ought to it select to make use of the title the down the highway.
CarBuzz has additionally managed to dig up a swag of extra names that Ferrari has utilized logos for, and a minimum of considered one of them could also be used for the successor to the LaFerrari. These extra names embody F80, Drake, La Rossa, 12 Cilindri, 6 Cilindri, 296 Mugello, Milano, Montecarlo, Dolcevita, and 500 Testarossa.
Of those, F80 is probably going one of the best match for a LaFerrari successor. Ferrari’s flagship vary has already included the F40 and F50. The automaker has additionally launched the F60 America previously, and the LaFerrari was code-named the F70 early in its improvement, later altering to F150 as the beginning of manufacturing neared.
