1:43 Ferrari Daytona: hot little torpedo

Ferrari's designs were once only about three portions: a mile long hood, a tiny space for a person to sit in crookedly and a short butt. They were road going rockets designed to take care of, or cause phallic envy. And the 365GTB4 embodies that more than any other.

More popularly known as a Daytona, this torpedo of a Ferrari isn't that well known to the newer crowd of scale model car collectors. Hotwheels made only one low detailed version which frankly does not elicit that much oohs and aahs. Whoever else makes it, make it for the collectors. And this Kyosho 1:43 model is a work of art. It is embellished with amazing engine detail that includes plug and battery terminal wires and fully working hood struts that extend like the real thing. The trunk opens to show a carpeted space and the interiors is made of a multitude of different pieces accurately coloured and textured to be as close to the real thing as possible.

Kyosho makes mostly terrible 1:64 models. The paint is often so thick for anything other than silver cars that most details are drowned. But the 1:43 takes care of all that. And then when you go into 1:18, it's a crazy world.

Scroll down for more photos and a full video of the 1:1 magestic car driving around at full blast wiht only a V12 soundtrack.

Photos: Ehsanur Raza Ronny