Ferrari Design Boss Creates A Spaceship

It's not unheard of for modern Ferrari to be compared to spaceships, but what happens when the Italian carmaker's design director actually tries to make a space-faring vehicle inspired by Ferrari cars?

"It all started as a bit of fun," Flavio Manzoni told Form Trends in his explanation of his Ferrari spaceship. He may design cars now, but as a kid growing up in Sardinia, he was obsessed with science fiction and even imagined a UFO landing on top of his family's apartment building.

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Now, he's designed a UFO that wears the Prancing Horse badge. Its smooth surfaces are uninterrupted by anything even hinting at a propulsion system, and the only splash of Ferrari red is on a thin band that separates the two halves of the craft's fuselage.

Manzoni borrowed design elements from several notable Ferraris, including the Pininfarina-built Modulo concept from the 1970 Geneva Motor Show, and the modern LaFerrari. The bit hanging below the front edge of the spaceship's fuselage is modeled on the hybrid supercar's front spoiler.