If you’re a car collector who has become jaded at the notion of a Ferrari, we just may have the antidote for you, this is $1.7 million Ferrari Testa D’Oro Colani is a Ferrari unlike any other.
A world-famous industrial designer Luigi Colani. His goal was to build a car that could set top speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats and he decided a Ferrari Testarossa would be a good starting point for his project.
Not only he created an aerodynamically new body for the Testarossa, he also contacted Lotec to develop a beefed up powerplant for the machine. They ended up with a version of the car’s stock flat 12engine that now had two turbochargers strapped to it.
Produced more than 750 horsepower and the new thrust combined with Colani’s one-off body allowed the Testa D’Oro Colani in 1991 to win its class at Bonneville, setting a top-speed record of 218 mph.
Article by Nicholas Wallace
