The Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo is a 1,300-horsepower futuristic race car.

Ferrari, in honour of its 75th anniversary, has done something very few seventy-five-year-olds would ever contemplate doing: it has unveiled a thousand-horsepower concept car designed just for the video game Gran Turismo.

While Ferrari isn't the first automaker to create a virtual racing vehicle for Gran Turismo, the arrival of any new Ferrari is cause for celebration, virtual or otherwise. To that end, from December 15th, 2018, and running until March 2nd, 2023, you may visit the Ferrari museum in Maranello, Italy to see a life-size replica.

The Vision Gran Turismo, as the vehicle is called, is meant to inspire the engineers and drivers (real and virtual) of the future by appealing to young gamers. The Italian company also claims that the vehicle "represents a futuristic design manifesto for Ferrari's road and racing cars, embodying the maximum expression of formal beauty and innovation."

So, although we probably won't see this vehicle at Le Mans anytime soon, its innovative design may find its way onto a production racing car in the future. Moreover, Ferrari seems to be dead serious about this endeavour, since the car's primary design feature—the way air is channelled under the car's nose, over the driver's compartment, and up and over the sidepods—has been trademarked. The carbon fibre undercarriage is flat and the body is designed to seem like it's floating above it.

Ferrari claims that the 330 P3 and 512 S sports prototype racers of the 1960s and 1970s served as influence for the design of this vehicle. Company representatives have said that the vehicle is meant to feature geometric, sharp, angular lines that ultimately result in an organic form. Ferrari also states that this vehicle provides a "tasting preview of the future development of closed-wheel racing vehicles."

The power comes from a turbocharged V6 engine that is positioned in the middle of the car and is a development of the unit found in the real-world 296 GTB and the 499P racer that will return Ferrari to the top class at Le Mans in 2023. Gran Turismo's idea uses an engine coupled to three electric motors: two up front for all-wheel drive and one out back. Given its somewhat hefty dry weight of 2,755 pounds, the vehicle's combined power output of about 1,300 horsepower at 9000 rpm and 811 lbs-ft of torque is impressive.

In terms of performance, the car can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in less than two seconds, from 0 to 124 miles per hour in less than five seconds, from 124 to 217 miles per hour in more than two minutes, and can complete a lap of Ferrari's Fiorano test track in less than one minute and ten seconds, which is nine seconds faster than Ferrari's current street-legal record holder, the SF 90.

Ferrari claims it collaborated with the producers of Gran Turismo to generate a sound that is "faithfully replicated to provide sim racers an even more authentic racing experience."

The vehicle is equipped with a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) and electric boost similar to those used in Formula One cars. Beginning December 23rd, you'll be able to buy the vehicle in Gran Turismo 7.