If you were the owner a prestigious Ferrari tuning company, how would you celebrate your company’s 20
birthday? Throw a big party and invite all your best customers? Take the team racing in some of your finest products? Or, build an outrageously powerful supercar to show the world you’re not just about big bhp figures and carbon fibre?
Novitec Rosso has taken the third option and built its own limited edition car, the TuLesto. It is a twin supercharged, 766bhp machine that bears more than a passing resemblance to the F430, although Novitec hasn’t revealed exactly how much Ferrari DNA will underpin the eleven exclusive supercars it intends to build.
Created in conjunction with Italian design studio Luca Serafini Stile in Modena, the TuLesto weighs a modest 1260kg thanks to its full aluminium chassis. Power comes from a rear mounted, twin supercharged 4.4-litre V8 engine producing 766bhp and 536lb ft at 6300rpm. Novitec claims the TuLesto will dispatch 62mph in 3.4sec and crack 186mph in 22.6 seconds before topping out at 217mph.
That power is channelled through a six speed semi-automatic gearbox, which is controlled via carbon fibre wheel-mounted paddles. Novitec has fitted height-adjustable front suspension to allow the TuLesto to crawl over speed bumps, and six-piston callipers with ceramic discs to slow the car down. It gets ultra-lightweight alloys, available in either 20 or 21-inch sizes, which are wrapped in semi-slick tyres.
Inside there is a healthy dose of carbon fibre covering the door trim and centre console. The custom-fitted bucket seats will be individually sculpted to the physiques of the eleven owners, and are also made of carbon fibre.
As for the price? Well, that’s strictly for the eleven owners to know, and for us to try and find out.