BBR gives us a first glimpse at their prototype Ferrari F40 LM 1989 – Red. This 1:18 closed-body, resin model will be a limited edition piece of 300. Other than being sealed the Ferrari does look promising. Three other colours will be offered, they include: Gloss Black, Gloss White and Metallic Silver. Each will be limited to 100 pieces or less. First production pieces are expecting in September of this year.
About the F40 LM… “The Ferrari F40 is a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive, two-door coupé sports car built from 1987 to 1992 (up to 1994 for the LM and 1996 for the GTE). The successor to the Ferrari 288 GTO, it was designed to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary and was the last Ferrari automobile personally approved by Enzo Ferrari. At the time it was the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive car that Ferrari sold to the public. Following to the numerous requests from Ferrari’s chairman, Daniel Marin to Ferrari Enzo for preparing a version of the F40 for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, at the beginning of 1989 they built in cooperation with Michelotto Cars two race cars known with the name of F40 LM. Michelotto Automobili prepared other six copies (in total seven) known as the F40 GTE, which was considered the latest evolution made specifically to compete in the Championship BPR Global GT Series.”
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I preordered the red and white ones :)
This LM version is developped by Looksmart too, with some other versions :
http://www.looksmartmodels.com/in-development-ferrari-f40-collection/
We can add it with the road version that Kyosho (in collaboration with FrontiArt it seems) was supposed to sell on May/June.
I asked the same question, are they all using the same manufacturer and molds. Seems really strange that all the would decide to produce the same car at the same time.
As soon s these were announced I ordered the red and the Gloss black versions.
Is there some tie up between Looksmart and BBR. As only 2 weeks ago Looksmart announced a range of nine Ferrari F40’s and now BBR announce that they are making F40’s. 4 have been announced so far with more to follow.
Looksmart have just released the 288GTO and BBR are taking pre orders for 288GTO’s also.