29/05/2026
• Happy birthday to one of the wildest dreams ever shaped in red.
Twenty years ago, the Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina appeared as something more than a one-off. It felt like a message. A reminder that the future of the automobile could still be emotional, brave, irrationally beautiful.
It was 2006. Turin was living one of its most unforgettable years, hosting the Winter Olympic Games and showing the world a city in motion, full of energy, pride and international attention. And we like to imagine that, somewhere inside that same atmosphere, the spirit of the moment also reached the designers at Pininfarina. A city looking forward, a country on stage, and a car being shaped as if it belonged to the future.
Commissioned by James Glickenhaus and born from the bones of a Ferrari Enzo, the P4/5 was not simply a modern interpretation of the great Ferrari prototypes of the 1960s. It was the kind of car many of us had imagined as children, looking at posters, scale models, racing books and impossible silhouettes, believing that somewhere, somehow, cars like this could still exist.
And then it did.
Low, dramatic, almost unreal, the P4/5 carried the memory of Ferrari’s golden age into the 21st century without becoming nostalgic. It looked backwards only to move forward. It had the courage to be romantic in a time increasingly obsessed with numbers, lap times and digital perfection.
That is why, twenty years later, it still matters. Because the P4/5 is not only a car. It is proof that design can still dream. That coachbuilding can still surprise. That beauty, when it is brave enough, can become timeless.
Happy 20th birthday, P4/5.
A childhood dream, shaped by Pininfarina.
In Turin, in 2006.
And painted in red.