Ferrari hasn’t needed any help in the design department lately. The 458 Italia set a new benchmark for sleek, inspired, modern supercar design, and the Ferrari FF followed it with a shooting brake body to die for. But that’s not stopping these College of Creative Studies, Detroit students from bending their imaginations to the task of what future Ferraris might look like.

That’s a very good thing. Some of the artwork glimpsed here looks like it could very well end up in actual sheetmetal, even if it’s still up in the air whether any ever will.

The video is part of Ferrari’s ongoing World Design Challenge contest, which asks design students around the globe to pen a “pure hypercar with technology and materials from the latest generation, a car with an extreme architecture, while functional under every aspect.” So far, so good.

The College of Creative Studies design team is among the finalists in the global contest. They’ll fight it out from here against six other teams from Spain, Korea, Italy, England, and France, for the final title. The winners will get an internship at Ferrari and cash prizes.

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Ferrari 599XX

Chrysler rolled into the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) pretty much empty-handed, so Ferrari took pity on its corporate sibling and sent over a 599XX so there would be something worth seeing on the Chrysler stand.

Fiat, the parent company of Ferrari and Maserati, took control of Chrysler as part of Chrysler’s bankruptcy exit last year.

As for the 599XX, it is a special track-only model and isn’t approved to compete in any racing series, meaning owners can only drive it on the track, but can’t compete in racing. The car’s 6.0-liter V12 engine has been reworked to produce 700-hp at 9,000 rpm, while new aerodynamics help to deliver 612 lbs of downforce at 124 mph and almost 1,400 lbs of downforce at 186 mph.

For those whose blood doesn’t run rosso corsa, the 599XX is the most wicked track weapon the Scuderia has ever built short of its F1 cars. It was first seen almost a year ago at the Geneva International Motor Show and since Ferrari skipped Detroit this year, it’s the only thing at the NAIAS wearing the cavallino rampante. It’s based on the magnificent 599 GTB Fiorano, but is a different beast altogether. Maranello applied to this road rocket all the latest high-tech hardware from its racing department which it could gather.

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Source: wired.com and autoguide.com