- Seldom Seen 4-Layer Blu America

- Extensive Specification

- Panoramic Roof | Lift | Ventilated Seats & More

- Full Main Agent Service History

- Front-end PPF

- Supplied with a Fresh Service

Most Ferraris are painted in a day. The car arrives in the booth, the colour goes on, it cures, and it moves down the line on schedule. A four-layer car does not work that way. Ferrari’s quattro strati finishes are built up by hand and in sequence, each layer laid over the last and given its own time to cure before the next can follow, so that the car occupies the paint shop for days rather than hours while everything behind it waits. The cost is considerable and the delay is worse, which is why so few are ordered, and why the ones that exist tend to have been commissioned by owners who knew exactly what they were asking for.

Blu America is one of those colours, and it repays the patience. It changes with the weather in a way that flat, single-stage blues simply cannot: close to black beneath a grey Surrey sky, holding its depth in shadow, and then, when the sun finds it, opening into something luminous and unexpectedly warm. Across the long flanks and the shallow, tapering roofline of an FF there is a great deal of surface for the light to travel over, and the effect as the car moves past is something you notice before you have identified what the car is.

Outside, the paint sits over 20-inch forged wheels, with Grigio Silverstone callipers behind them: a quiet choice, and a deliberate one, where yellow or red would have been the easier decision. Scuderia Ferrari shields on the front wings and carbon fibre sill plates beneath the doors are the only other marks on an otherwise uninterrupted body. Above, the panoramic glazed roof runs almost the full length of the cabin, an option that cost the first owner some £11,000 and remains the single specification choice that most alters how the FF feels from the inside, turning a long, low grand tourer into something closer to a conservatory in motion. Front and rear parking cameras are fitted, as are front and rear suspension lift and the adaptive front lift system, which together say a good deal about an owner who intended to cover every eventuality rather than plan around the car’s limitations.

Within, Crema hide. Blue over cream is among the oldest and most correct pairings in Ferrari’s grand touring vocabulary, and it is what keeps this car firmly in that tradition rather than drifting toward the modern default of dark on dark. The lightness of the cabin set against the depth of the exterior is the entire logic of the specification, and it holds as well from the rear seats as the front, which matters more in an FF than in almost any other car the factory has built. Carbon fibre is used with restraint and clear purpose throughout: the driver zone with its LED shift lights, the centre tunnel, the dashboard accents, the kick plates, and the mid zone of the passenger compartment.

The passenger display sits directly ahead of the front passenger, making a participant of them rather than cargo, and the seats are fully electric, heated and ventilated. The rev counter is finished in Ferrari’s optional Giallo, the only piece of theatre permitted in an otherwise composed interior, and all the more effective for its isolation. In the centre of the dashboard you will find an aftermarket screen, fitted for Apple CarPlay and genuinely useful on longer journeys; should it not be to your taste, the original factory unit is retained and comes with the car.

The history reads as it should. Twelve main agent services from new, beginning with H.R. Owen in July 2014 at 3,742 miles and running through four visits in their care before the car passed to Ferrari Colchester in 2018, where it has been maintained ever since, most recently in August 2025 at 29,138 miles. The intervals are almost metronomic, July or August, year after year, without a single gap in more than a decade. This is a car that has been used as an FF is meant to be used, and then handed straight back to the people who built it. Paint protection film has been applied to the front end, shielding the four-layer finish from stone chips and motorway debris, and the car is supplied freshly serviced.

Ferrari's interest in driving all four wheels long predates the FF. In 1987, Mauro Forghieri, the engineer behind a generation of Formula One Ferraris, oversaw the 408 4RM: a mid-engined V8 research prototype with a four-wheel-drive system of his own design, built in two examples, one of which used a bonded aluminium chassis well ahead of its time. It never reached production, and the idea lay dormant for more than two decades. When the FF was unveiled at Geneva in March 2011 as successor to the 612 Scaglietti, its name said plainly what had changed: Ferrari Four, for four seats and four driven wheels. It was the first series-production Ferrari to have either in combination, and the first factory shooting brake. Until then, that body style had belonged to coachbuilders and private commissions, from Piero Drogo's 250 GT SWB "Breadvan" for Count Volpi's Scuderia Serenissima to the Daytona shooting brake that Panther Westwinds built in the 1970s.

What made the FF unusual was the way it delivered drive to the front. Ferrari rejected a conventional system, with its centre differential and heavy driveshafts, because it would have compromised the front-mid layout. The 4RM system instead takes power from the nose of the crankshaft through a compact, Ferrari-patented power transfer unit. The unit has its own two forward gears, and wet clutches meter torque to each front wheel independently. It works only in the lower gears, where traction matters most, and Ferrari claimed it weighed roughly half as much as a traditional arrangement. Behind it sat the 6,262cc direct-injection V12, producing 651bhp and capable of 208mph. Pininfarina's long-roofed shape gave the car a boot that expanded from 450 to 800 litres with the rear seats folded. In 2016 the GTC4Lusso replaced the FF, adding rear-wheel steering and an alternative V8. The FF therefore remains the purest expression of the original idea.

4-Layer Blue America

Crema Hide

Panoramic Glazed Roof

Passenger Display

20'' Forged Wheels

Grigio Silverstone Brake Calipers

Full Electric Ventilated Seats

Scuderia Shields

Carbon Fibre Exterior Sill Plate

Mid Zone of Passenger Compartment in Carbon Fibre

Carbon Fibre Driver Zone & LED's

Carbon Fibre Centre Tunnel

Carbon Fibre Dashboard Accents

Giallo Rev Counter

Front & Rear Suspension Lift

Adaptive Frontlight System

Front & Rear Parking Cameras

H.R. Owen - 16/07/2014 - 3,742 miles

H.R. Owen - 10/07/2015 - 5,611 miles

H.R. Owen - 07/07/2016 - 8,490 miles

H.R. Owen - 25/08/2017 -11,605 miles

Ferrari Colchester - 23/07/2018 - 13,032 miles

Ferrari Colchester - 19/07/2019 - 14,377 miles

Ferrari Colchester - 09/07/2020 - 15,602 miles

Ferrari Colchester - 27/07/2021 - 16,404 miles

Ferrari Colchester - 30/08/2022 - 17,144 miles

Ferrari Colchester - 30/08/2023 - 21,065 miles

Ferrari Colchester - 03/10/2024 - 24,304 miles

Ferrari Colchester - 04/08/2025 - 29,138 miles