Ferrari Is Building One Extra SP3 Daytona For A Very Good Reason

The Ferrari Daytona SP3 is one of those cars that immediately becomes an icon. Not every Ferrari achieves that status, and some even get completely forgotten in just a few short years. The SP3’s 829-horsepower 6.5-liter V12 didn’t hurt its chances of obtaining that status. Neither did the very small production run of just 599 cars, with a handful going to team F1 drivers and even one to Enzo Ferrari’s only living son.

Except that Ferrari has just taken a page from Colombo – the detective, not the V12 engine – and come back for just one more thing. The Italian automaker will build one more SP3, the 600th, though it’s not naming it that. Ferrari is hoping you’ll be okay with that extra car because it is going to be auctioned off for charity.

This Might Be The Most Custom SP3 Of All

Every Ferrari Daytona SP3 is customized for its owner, but with nobody placing the order for this car, Ferrari’s Tailor Made artisans have had a go at it themselves. It’s definitely not a wallflower, with the body painted in a two-tone Giallo Modena and bare carbon fiber just the start of the shouting this exotic does.

The yellow paint and visible carbon aren’t split top and bottom like you would normally expect. The colors aren’t even split into an inner accent and outer base finish. On this car, they’re split right down the middle. Or just to the passenger side of the middle, at least.

Running directly down the middle is the Ferrari wordmark. “Ferr” on the hood and “ari” on the tail. No, you’re not going to see another SP3 that looks like this one. You’re not going to see any Ferrari that looks like this one, because the brand has never applied its logo like this. The lower portions of the car, like the splitter and diffuser, are another inversion of a typical hypercar, because they’re gloss black instead of bare carbon.

You Won’t See Seats Like This Anywhere Else. Thankfully

The garish bold choices continue inside this SP3. The seats use a new fabric that comes from recycled tires, but it’s what Ferrari has done with it that really stands out. The seat fabric isn’t messy, or rubbed the wrong way. It’s a Prancing Horse motif that might take you a moment (and some squinting) to spot, like a Magic Eye painting. The checkerboard carbon on the dash is “a type of carbon fiber used in Formula 1.”

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Ferrari is calling this one 599+1 instead of 600, because the 599 copies of the Daytona SP3 are already sold out. And even if it’s for charity, some buyers might not be happy there’s an extra one in the mix.

The car will be sold during Monterey Car Week next month, as part of the RM Sotheby’s auction during the festivities. Proceeds go to The Ferrari Foundation, which the automaker says is involved in educational projects, including the rebuilding of a charter school in Altadena, California, after it was destroyed in wildfires earlier this year.