Ferrari may be evolving in the direction of a profitable mass constructor, but we like to tell ourselves that it is still a special moment when a car rolls off the line in Maranello. We then imagine the experienced craftsmen wiping away a tear with their rough, oil-stained fingers when they see the result of their hard labor in Rosso Corsa kissing the light of day… Although something tells us that the tears are a lot more intense when they see that it says ‘Mansory’ on the order form.
Storm on carbon fiber
Feast your eyes on the latest product from the German Tuner: the F9XX Tempesta Celeste. In Italian that means as much as “heavenly storm”, although in reality it seems that a storm of spoilers, splitters, air scoops and canards has blown over the once beautiful SF90 Spider. The exhausts have also become a bit more numerous, and fortunately that has its uses. For example, Mansory has overhauled the engine, so that the hybrid supercar now produces 1,100 instead of 1,000 horsepower. As a result, it sprints to 100 km/h in 2.4 seconds and continues to a top speed of 355 km/h, and presumably even faster if you get all that superfluous junk off your bumpers and your tailgate.
You can think what you want, but Mansory has achieved his goal again. For example, the tuner has been appearing on our news page for years with the most controversially decorated equipment, from Rolls-Royces with lowered suspension to a Mercedes-Maybach with a bullbar or even a rare Ferrari Monza SP2 with extra air conduction. This F9XX Tempesta Celeste does not come as such a surprise, because Mansory already built a similar colossus based on the SF90 Stradale. They will build the convertible version in an edition of three copies.
