Ferrari’s Special Projects program did the one thing they do best, create a unique, future-inspired machine. Enter the Ferrari KC23 that made its sonorous debut run in the Goodwood Hillclimb at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Based on the Ferrari 488 GT3, the one-off track-focused commissioned piece designed by Ferrari’s Centro Stile, led by Flavio Manzoni, isn’t road legal, neither is it for standard circuit racing because it is free of homologation constraints, but that’s beside the point.
Commissioned by one of the carmaker’s most dedicated collectors, the Ferrari KC23 takes its cue from both the Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo and the 499P endurance hypercar that won the Le Mans 24 Hours last June. It features a unique specially-developed four-layer aluminum paint scheme called Gold Mercury that has liquid metal embedded into it, giving it an iridescent silver metallic finish. It also comes with vertically opening butterfly doors, redesigned headlights and rear lights, a dynamic methacrylate light blade at the back, motorized air intakes and body panels, and a removable rear wing.
Inside, the KC23 sports a spartan race car aesthetic. Its concession to luxury is the door panels and a dashboard finish on the passenger side. It has a full roll cage, an endurance racing button-covered steering yoke and a panel of rocker switches, and custom-made Alcantara-trimmed bucket seats.
Under the hood, the KC23 488 inherits the GT3 Evo 2020’s 3.9-liter RWD V8 twin-turbo engine, chassis, and suspension set-up.
After its appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Ferrari KC23 will be displayed at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello from August 1st to October 2nd. It isn’t for sale, though, and the project’s cost was not revealed.
