To celebrate the 70th anniversary of legendary designer and coachbuilder Pininfarina, Ferrari and Pininfarina created the 550 Barchetta. Unveiled at the Paris Auto Show in 2000, the car is the only open variant of the 550 Maranello that was produced. With a more steeply raked and lower windscreen, the car was extremely rakish. Twin roll hoops add further to the car’s sporting aesthetic, while a rudimentary emergency top (rated to 70 mph only) provided nominal weather protection on what was clearly intended to be a fair weather car. Aside from those features, the Barchetta featured all of the magnificent underpinnings of the standard Maranello, including naturally-aspirated 485 hp quad-cam V12, manually-shifted transaxle, and double wishbone suspension all around. A limited numbered edition, 448 standard production cars built, plus an additional 12 pre-production units, which were differentiated on their center console-mounted production plaques with P1 through P12 instead of the XXX/448 designation of the standard cars.