Ferrari TRS is a topless hybrid F12 Berlinetta

There's yet another one-off Ferrari F12 Berlinetta variant in the world. It may or may not be called the F12 TRS, and it may or may not be a hybrid. Either way, it's intriguing, as Ferraris tend to be.

Photos of the car, along with its possible logo, hit Jalopnik and The Supercar Kids Sunday morning. From what we can tell, it's topless, or at least able to go topless; there could be a California-like folding top tucked under that rear deck, or it could be a barchetta-style true roadster with a supplementary cloth top for weather emergencies.

The car's sculpted rear is a serious departure from your run-of-the-mill F12 -- with its scoops and swoops, it looks a lot more like the 458 Speciale or the LaFerrari.

The front has been massaged, as well, with a black mesh replacing the stock car's metallic grille and a black-painted power bulge in place of a vent. It doesn't get the 250 GTO-like trio of vents seen on another recent F12 variant, the SP America.

There could be a folding top of some sort under that rear deck, or the car could get a temporary cloth top to cover up in bad weather.

Last week, the enthusiasts at FerrariChat dug up an Italian trademark filing for the “F12 TRS” name. It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to connect the two. There's some speculation on what the T, R and S stand for, but “Recovery System” could well be a part of it -- this F12 variant reportedly packs a kinetic-energy recovery system, making it a kind of hybrid. We're guessing it puts out more than the stock F12's paltry 731 hp, though probably not quite the LaFerrari's monstrous 950 hp.

If all this hybrid talk is true, it wouldn't necessarily come as a total surprise. Even before the hybrid hypercar LaFerrari, the crew in Maranello had already played with the idea of mating their 65-degree V12 to an energy recovery system -- see the screamin' green 599 HY-KERS concept from a couple years back. Since the F12 uses a variant of the engine from its predecessor, the 599, and since the hybrid LaFerrari makes use of yet another variant, it's not totally implausible that a hybrid system would eventually make its way onto a front-engine customer car.

What is shocking, though, is the price tag: $4.2 million, according to Jalopnik's sources. You pay a certain price for exclusivity, and in this case, it seems to work out to roughly three LaFerraris.

Ferrari recently filed papers to trademark this F12 TRS logo. Connecting it to this custom F12 isn't much of a stretch.


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