Ferrari launched the 849 Testarossa as the successor to the SF90 last year. While enthusiasts welcomed the revival of the iconic nameplate, Italian digital artist and designer Luca Serafini envisioned something different. Working with friend and CAS modeller Aldo Russo, he has created an unofficial concept that reinterprets the Testarossa through a deeply personal lens.

Serafini describes the project as a passion-driven collaboration. He handled the design, 3D drafting, and CGI imagery, while Russo translated the sketches into precise Alias surfaces. The result is a fully realised digital concept that pays homage not only to the Testarossa name but also to Ferrari’s broader design language of the 1970s and ’80s.

Where Ferrari’s 849 leans toward modern performance and aero-led thinking, Serafini’s concept proudly embraces nostalgia. Its proportions recall the 512 S he once sketched as a hypothetical revival, while familiar elements appear throughout, including subtle side strakes, two-tone upper and lower bodywork, and a front end shaped to evoke the soft, wedge-like forms of Maranello’s past. Even the headlight treatment nods to the pop-up era, suggesting the silhouette of retracted lamps without compromising modern safety requirements. At the rear, the references continue, with horizontal slats echoing the Testarossa and 512 TR era.

Conceived as a design exercise with no powertrain or performance claims, the project stands as Serafini’s love letter to curvaceous proportions, soft surfaces and the emotive grandeur of Ferrari’s past.