Would Willy Wonka Drive This Ferrari?

There is little that an unrepentant chocoholic can add to this report, which I found over on ananova.

Except to say there is a hijack being planned and it will take place as soon as I can afford the airfare!

A life-size chocolate model of a Ferrari Formula 1 car has been unveiled in Italy.

Confectioners spent more than a year making the car out of 4,405lbs of Belgian chocolate.

It has now been delivered to Sorrento, near Naples, where it will be the centrepiece of a Ferrari owners club party.

Luigi Liberti, president of the Scuderia Ferrari Club Napoli, said: “It will go on display until the weekend and then will be smashed up with hammers and handed out to party guests – they will be given bits of the car to take home in a special bag.”

The £12,000 chocolate Ferrari is based on an F2008, and has a red, edible coating.

Liberti added: “The project started one year ago, just for fun, but then the Club Pasticceri Italiani started to get really enthusiastic and eventually it became a life-sized model.

“They started melting the chocolate in 2007, at first copying a small-scale model of the Ferrari F2008, then getting the full scale model done using chocolate imported especially from Belgium.”

Now I am wondering if Michael Schumacher’s melt-down was because Madame Tussaard’s was insisting on a chocolate version of the driver.