One of the latest Ferrari grand tourers is the F12 Berlinetta. If you are looking for an all-new, front-engined V12 from Maranello, unfortunately you're only option aside from that is the FF. It works if you're into the whole bread van thing, but if you're not that's it.
So, what do you do if you have a screamin' bank account and are yearning for something totally exclusive? Why, you speak to one of the last remaining old-school Italian coachbuilders. This is where Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera comes in.
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While the company is extremely choosy in picking the autos it wants to work on, the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta is the latest and greatest. To be displayed at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, the Berlinetta Lusso is currently a one-off grand tourer based on the aforementioned. Only five are to be made.
Pricing has not been released and why should it be unless you're one of the five. According to the coachbuilder, 5,000 man hours and a six month wait are required for the transformation. Of course this is on top of the initial cost and wait for an F12.
Completely reskinned on the outside, it looks a bit like the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti if you ask me.
Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera, one of the oldest (and one of the last) of the Old School Italian coachbuilding houses, will launch a new GT coupe at the Geneva International Motor Show next week, built on the Ferrari F12 chassis...
...Like Touring’s other creations since its rebirth as a serious concern in the mid-Noughties, most notably the Bentley Continental Flying Star of 2010, and 2013’s Alfa 8C-derived Disco Volante, the Berlinetta Lusso will offer customers extensive latitude in colours, materials and detail execution, as per the great Italian coachbuilder’s tradition. It also offers the distinction of owning the only conventional three-box, front-engine V-12 Ferrari brought to the new car market in donkey’s years, and the trunk occupying that third box is every bit as Lusso as the custom-trimmed interior...
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