A uncommon Ferrari F40 has been destroyed by an inferno in Japan.

The Italian supercar was being pushed alongside the nation’s well-known Hakone Turnpike on Saturday, Might 8 when the couple contained in the automobile observed smoke seeping from the engine bay, prompting them to drag over. Quickly after, the F40 caught hearth.

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Footage from native media shops exhibits that fireplace crews arrived on the scene whereas the Ferrari was nonetheless burning however they have been unable to extinguish the blaze earlier than the automobile was utterly destroyed and left as nothing greater than a melted mess of metal and carbon fiber.

Ferrari solely ever produced 1,315 examples of the F40 and sadly, there may be now one much less on the roads. Happily, neither the motive force nor the passenger have been injured within the blaze.

Ferrari first launched the F40 in 1987 because the successor to the potent 288 GTO. It left the manufacturing facility with a 2.9-liter twin-turbocharged V8 producing 471 hp at 7,000 rpm and 426 lb-ft (577 Nm) of torque at 4,000 rpm, coupled to a five-speed handbook transmission driving the rear wheels. Whereas the F40 was later changed by the F50 which itself made manner for the Enzo after which the hybrid LaFerrari, many nonetheless think about the F40 to be the best Ferrari ever created.

Whereas it’s unimaginable to say what precisely triggered the fireplace, all we are able to hope for is that the automobile’s insurer will totally cowl the price of the prized mid-engined icon.