When it comes to Ferrari’s vaguely LaFerrari?based FXX K, the 1036-hp track-only living prototype that a select few purchased for gajillions of dollars, there are no rules. Literally. The car was developed for maximum on-track performance, and because it’ll never compete in a real racing series, it needn’t conform to any regulations beyond Ferrari’s own expectations. So, naturally, the Scuderia has just introduced an even more insane version, the FXX K Evo, in the midst of the company’s 70th anniversary.
To understand why Ferrari would bother building a higher-performance version of its highest-performance car that very few people can afford?let alone be allowed to buy?and that won’t ever race in a sanctioned competition, you must know that the FXX K is a prototype. Ferrari treats the few cars it built as development mules for future automotive boundary breaking, and it treats its owners as “supercar enthusiasts eager to share the development of technologically innovative content with the Prancing Horse technicians, through driving a closed-wheel laboratory car.”
Well, now current FXX K owners and a fresh crop of monied “clients” can sign on as de facto test drivers and buy in to an FXX K Evo. (Already own an FXX K" Ferrari will upgrade your car to Evo spec, assuredly for lots and lots of money.) The hybrid supercar’s kinetic energy recuperation system (KERS), electric motor, and V-12 engine are kept...