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Here is an interesting fact: if you have $4 million, a taste for one-of-a-kind cars, and a personality that says “even a 400 production unit Enzo is to common for me” then you can have Ferrari build a 100% custom car just for you! Ok, maybe they don’t quite come out and say it like that, but this is the point of the Italian automaker’s Special Projects program.

The last car to roll off the Special Projects assembly line was a modern day recreation of the P3/4, Ferrari’s race car from the sixties. Fast forward to today and we find that Ferrari debuted their newest “rich-man” project, the P540 Superfast Aperta.

The car is essentially a 599 GTO under the golden skin, keeping the same engine and drivetrain (a good thing) but designed to recreate the golden Ferrari from the 1968 short film Dammit Toby. But those who regularly read the Daily Derbi know that the aesthetics and design of a car are generally the first element to be judged- not the performance. And this is why the P540 was such a letdown when its first photos revealed that the car had taken a design similar of that to a 1969 Corvette Stingray mixed with the boring and mundane elements of an old Jaguar XKR. Yes, I know it’s supposed to embody a car from the late sixties but it doesn’t mean it has to be that car.

I just can’t wrap my mind around the P540. A car that can only perform for the road and not for the human eye, rare or not, is lacking something crucial. And for this price why not throw some gold paint on a regular 599 GTO or a 458 and go buy an oceanside mansion with the spare change?

And for those of you who think the car looks ok, I have two word for you: rear gills.

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