Ferrari Monza SP1
Why 2.3: A windscreen-less single-seat speedster is a statement piece before it's a driver's car — gorgeous, extremely limited, and built around a display case more than a road trip. The naturally aspirated V12 is the one honest ingredient; everything else about the ownership pattern says Icona-collection wing, not daily transportation.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The 812's 6.5 naturally aspirated V12 to 8,500 rpm with no windscreen and no roof, so intake and exhaust reach your head completely unfiltered. It sits below the LFA and Carrera GT only because those were acoustically engineered rather than merely uncovered.
12-cylinder · naturally aspirated · 8,500 rpm redline · rated 9.6 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €1.6M (2019) → €2.4M (2026), trending up · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
The SP1 is the single-seat half of the Monza pair — where the passenger seat would go there is a cover. (The SP2 seats two, and still has no anchors.)
Ferrari Monza SP1 single-seat layout
The long version
Ferrari's Icona line was conceived explicitly as limited-run collector pieces referencing 1950s barchettas, and buyers treated the SP1 accordingly from day one — most went straight into private collections alongside other Icona and special-series Ferraris rather than into rotation as a usable car. The no-windscreen cockpit isn't a practical objection so much as the point: it signals a car bought for what it evokes, not for commuting or even routine trackdays, and insurance-and-storage economics for a car this exposed to weather reinforce the pattern. Public sightings cluster around concours lawns and Ferrari-owner-club static displays rather than roads. The V12 is a genuine engineering highlight, carried over from the 812 Superfast, but it's driven exactly as much as the ownership pattern implies: rarely, and briefly.