Equipment
3,902/670hp turbo V8, 7-speed automanual, white 5-spoke alloy wheels, PZero tires, SF shields, carbon fiber console, manettino steering wheel, climate control, carbon ceramic brakes.
Condition
<250km from new and unblemished. This is the "Le Mans" 70th Anniversary livery after Scuderia Filipinetti's 1965 Le Mans 250 LM 6119, otherwise known as a 488 GTB in Red with a white stripe, white wheels and blue upholstery.
Market commentary
The 488 GTB is a fabulous automobile with immense power from its 3.9 litre turbo V8, and this one has negligible miles. There are, however, other 488 GTBs out there with all the bells and whistles of this one but without the "70th Anniversary" livery... an exclusive red hue, white stripes, a door roundel with a number and some other accessories that Filipinetti couldn't have dreamed of in 1965. Inherently the whole 70th Anniversary program is a distinction without a difference, an attempt to entice anxious buyers to purchase so-called "special" cars so they stay in the queue to buy still more barely differentiated Ferraris, which is why we see so many of them coming on to the market with delivery miles and their initial buyers recoup what lucre they can realize to recycle into the coming 2022 75th Anniversary specials. At least the first buyers got Ferrari credit for filling the company coffers with silly money; the second owners get no such recognition and the large premium brought by this and other 70th Anniversary editions in the secondary market will earn them nothing but depreciation. This is a silly price for a silly car. Really? A mid-five figure premium for a red Ferrari with a white stripe and door roundels? Madness, but an affliction shared by other buyers of 70th Anniversary Ferraris. The premium paid for this 488 GTB could have bought an otherwise similar 488 GTB and a "Smokey and the Bandit" Pontiac Firebird.