LaFerrari convertible unveiled in first official photos

After being teased earlier this year and again by Gordon Ramsay during the series-opening episode of the new Top Gear, then leaked as a scale model, it’s finally been unleashed. Ferrari has at long last revealed the convertible version of the LaFerrari hypercar today, ahead of its debut at the 2016 Paris Motor Show.

There’s no proper name for the droptop as yet – that will be revealed at the show – but the filenames of the photos suggest that it will be called the LaFerrari Aperta (Italian for “open”, also used as the name of the limited edition 599 roadster). Paris is also where Maranello will announce how many of these gorgeous machines will be built, but all of them have already been spoken for and the order books are closed.

Few details have been released so far, but the car is pretty much as we all expected it to look like – take a chainsaw to the roof of a LaFerrari, and you pretty much end up with what you see here. Ferrari will offer both a carbon fibre hard top and a soft top, which likely means that the roof will have to be fitted manually, as is usually the case with a convertible hypercar.

The powertrain is the same as on its coupé twin, with an 800 hp/700 Nm 6.3 litre naturally-aspirated V12 mated to a 163 hp electric motor that forms the Hybrid Kinetic Energy Recovery System (HY-KERS) – together they produce 963 hp and over 900 Nm. All that power is sent to the rear wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.

Ferrari claims that it has performed significant and extensive modifications to the chassis to retain the torsional rigidity and beam stiffness of the coupé, and has also revised the aerodynamics of the car to guarantee the same drag coefficient even without a roof. So, what do you think of the new topless LaFerrari?

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