- Fully Leaded created a digital Ferrari F40 widebody concept with redesigned front and rear ends.
- The concept replaces pop-up headlights and taillights with slim LED lighting elements.
- It deletes the F40’s NACA ducts for a single side intake, plus a new wing and diffuser.
The Ferrari F40 doesn’t need help getting attention. It’s already a carbon-fibre sledgehammer from a more honest era, all turbos, vents and intent. Which is precisely why this radical reimagining is so provocative. Love it or loathe it, you won’t confuse it for anything else, and that’s kind of the point.
This is a design study from digital creator Fully Leaded, and before anyone reaches for the pitchforks, it exists purely in pixels. No historic F40 has been harmed. Still, the concept poses an uncomfortable question for purists: what happens when you filter one of Ferrari’s most sacred shapes through a modern tuner lens?
Same legend, very different attitude
At a glance, the silhouette is familiar, but the details have gone properly rogue. The body is much wider, with flared arches front and rear giving the car a squat, road-hogging stance. Up front, the original pop-up headlights are gone, replaced by slim LED units that immediately drag the F40 into the present day.
The bumper is entirely new, sitting lower and spreading further across the road. A complex splitter arrangement and enlarged air intakes dial up the motorsport aggression, while a redesigned bonnet sharpens the whole look. It’s less Group B refugee, more track-day menace.
Wide hips and fewer ducts
Along the sides, the changes are even more dramatic. The iconic NACA ducts have been deleted, replaced by a single, much larger air intake designed to ram cool air towards the engine bay. The rear haunches balloon outward, exaggerating the F40’s already muscular proportions and giving it an almost caricatured presence.
This is where the Liberty Walk comparison feels most apt, as there’s an unapologetic tuner vibe here, with little concern for subtlety and even less for nostalgia.
LEDs, diffuser, controversy
Round the back, Fully Leaded doubles down. A sweeping rear wing arcs over the tail, paired with a massive motorsport-style diffuser. The exhaust layout is revised, and the original round taillights are swapped for thin LED strips, stripping away the last traces of 1980s charm.
No one has yet committed an actual F40 to a full restomod treatment, although a small Italian firm announced plans about a year ago for suspension, brake and wheel upgrades. Liberty Walk’s earlier widebody effort also stayed closer to the factory formula.
So should something this extreme ever be built? Or is the F40 one of those rare machines best preserved exactly as Enzo intended? Either way, this concept proves the F40 still has the power to stir emotions decades on, and without turning a wheel.
