Attract customers with a Ferrari bright red could be the key to reviving business. Even if they sell watermelons. Who knows how the idea of creating it will have flashed in the mind of a Vietnamese fruit seller a reproduction of a 488 GTB used as a truck for its products. A question to which perhaps a plausible answer does not exist, if not the desire to fulfill the dream of owning a Red from Maranello or more simply to attract potential customers, interested in the Prancing Horse, clearly visible on the nose of this rather coarse copy of the berlinetta. 721 hp launched in 2015.
The images of this “marketing masterpiece” were broadcast by the YouTube NHET TV, where it is shown the creation of this young greengrocer Vietnamese who created a Ferrari 488 GTB using a steel frame and a fiberglass shell that tries to reproduce the sinuous and at the same time aggressive shapes of the Maranello racing car. Under the skin, however, nothing 3.9 turbocharged V8 capable of pushing the original 488 GTB over 340 km / h and covering 0-100 in 2.85 seconds and 0-200 “in 7.6 seconds, but a small motor obtained from a water pump that can move this home-made redhead to the max between 50 and 60 km / h. Certainly this is not a big problem for this creative Vietnamese entrepreneur who, with only $ 1,000 in budget, wanted to give a decidedly distinctive look to his means of selling watermelon.
This reproduction of the Ferrari 488 GTB albeit much slower than the original, it serves its purpose, attracting the attention of customers: every time it passes through the streets of local villages, people flock curiously. At that point the skilled seller takes out all the merchandise, displaying the price list and indications of the products on sale. A truly unique way to sell watermelons that will certainly have allowed a significant increase in sales, driven by this copy of the Cavallino.
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