Anyone who's had to fight for space in the living room for even a model car might be permitted a flash of envy at the set-up of Holger Schubert, subject of the
latest Petrolicious celebration
of the love of man for machine. To be fair, ownership of a Ferrari 512BBi would be reason enough to go a bit green tinged. But to have it share the living room of your minimalist, modernist pad and be able to drive it out over a driveway suspended 16 feet off the ground on a glass-sided bridge just takes the proverbial.
Looks fabulous in the living room; better out here
Like many of these videos, this treads a very fine line between pretension and honest - if well-funded - enthusiasm for a truly gorgeous car. While Holger's admission that aforementioned glass-sided bridge permits opportunity to check himself out in the reflection on leaving home we'll let that slip because he seems to be talking about the car, not his fizog. And for the fact that, occasional interior design feature or not, he does indeed take the BB out and drive it. Static object d'art it is not, thankfully. Though given the elevated view out over the valley he'd best be comfortable with the configuration of the dog-leg shift so as to avoid any embarrassing Bueller-esque disasters.
Having drooled over a couple of 512s the other week on our visit to Ferrari it's good to see, and hear, one out on the road too, this being the second flat-12* Ferrari we've featured this week. And while around £100K - £135K in the case of this beautiful example in the PH classifieds - isn't a modest amount of money you can only see them going one way, vendors Hexagon saying "the prices are accelerating faster than the cars."
£135K for this but prices are rocketing already
Meaning for most of us the only example likely to grace our living room will hail from Bburago, not Maranello. S'alright though - as this video proves trendy folk in fashionable houses consider them works of art, full size or not. So a 1/24th one on the coffee table is, officially, acceptable. PistonHeads - interior design matters.
*Pedant alert! Even Ferrari admits that the whole flat-12/'BB' thing is not a technically accurate description of the engine configuration. But Berlinetta Boxer sounded nice, so they went with it anyway.