This Is The Blackest Ferrari On The Planet

According to the script seen in the video, Ferrari's choice ofVantablack painton thisSF90 Stradaleseems to be very effective, obscuring lines and curves in low light and causing focusing issues in good lighting. Presumably, the most effective way to use this technology is to paint only certain parts of the body with the stuff, thus making the car morph in an optical illusion that could disguise proportions as much as design cues.

As cool as this is, we always have to consider the possibility that Ferrari is doing more than just testing the paint. Could a hardcore version of the car be coming?

It is certainly not unlike the modern Ferrari brand to squeeze every last drop of money it can out of a model - we've seen the F12berlinetta followed up by the F12 TDF, which was then replaced by the slightly different 812 Superfast. That has since received a special attention too, becoming the9,000-rpm 812 Competizionewith the world's most powerful V12.

We haven't been given any hints that such a special edition of the SF90 is coming, so this could also be a testbed for its successor. Either way, spy photogs will be cursing Ferrari for years if this catches on. We kinda hope it does - the internet has ensured that it's rare for manufacturers to be able to surprise us these days.