Ferrari F80

Ferrari F80 at a glance

The F80 continues Ferrari's line of limited-edition flagship cars, which includes the Ferrari Enzo and the LaFerrari. All current and past models are listed in the Ferrari catalogue.

Development and launch

Ferrari presented the F80 on 17 October 2024 as the successor to the LaFerrari. Prototypes had been seen around Maranello before the launch under the working name "F250". Production began in 2025 and, according to Wikipedia, was expected to continue until 2027, with 799 cars planned in total.

The engineering link to racing is direct. Ferrari says the architecture and many components of the F80's V6 come from the 499P, the car that won the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2023 and 2024. The electric motors are the first that Ferrari developed, tested and built itself in Maranello, and their design — a tooth-coil stator, a Halbach-array rotor and carbon fibre magnet retention — comes from Formula One. Ferrari calls the F80 its most powerful road car so far. For an earlier step in Ferrari's hybrid road cars, see the Ferrari SF90 Stradale.

Design

The F80 was designed by the Ferrari Styling Centre under Flavio Manzoni. It is a two-door coupé with butterfly doors, 4,840 mm long, 2,065 mm wide and only 1,138 mm high, on a 2,665 mm wheelbase.

Wikipedia points to several historic Ferraris as design influences. The name and the role of the car recall the F40, built for Ferrari's 40th anniversary. Ferrari says the vertical panel behind the front wheel arch pays homage to the F40, and the body has a dihedral cross-section anchored at the wheels. The black band across the bonnet comes from the 1960s 365 GTB/4 Daytona, and Wikipedia also lists the Daytona SP3 as an influence and notes the similarity to the 12Cilindri. Aerodynamics play a major role: Ferrari claims more than a tonne of downforce, and Wikipedia gives 1,050 kg at speed.

Engine and hybrid system

The combustion engine, type F163 CF, is a 2,992 cc twin-turbo V6 with a wide 120° angle between the cylinder banks, derived from the 499P race engine. It runs at a boost pressure of up to 3.7 bar and produces 662 kW (900 PS) on its own — about 221 kW per litre. Motor Trend described both the output and the specific output as the highest of any production car at the time.

The engine works with three electric motors developed by Ferrari. Two radial-flux motors form an electric front axle, which Ferrari calls e-4WD. A third motor at the rear, the MGU-K, works as starter and hybrid motor. Together the electric motors add 221 kW (300 PS). Energy comes from a 2.28 kWh lithium-ion battery that operates at 800 volts.

The combined output is 883 kW (1,200 PS). Power goes to the rear wheels through an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, type 8DCL900, supplied by Magna.

Chassis, suspension and brakes

The F80 is built around a carbon fibre cell and roof. Aluminium subframes at the front and rear are bolted to the tub with titanium screws, and the battery sits on an additional aluminium subframe at the rear. Ferrari describes this as a multi-material approach: each area uses the material best suited to its job.

The suspension is active. It was developed from the system of the Ferrari Purosangue and retuned for a sports car. The stability electronics include version 9.0 of Ferrari's Side Slip Control, which uses a "digital twin" estimator called FIVE to model the car's behaviour from sensor data in real time.

The brakes were developed with Brembo and use a carbon-ceramic material called CCM-R Plus. Its longer carbon fibres give, according to Ferrari, twice the mechanical strength and four times the thermal conductivity of the previous material, and the braking surfaces have a silicon-carbide coating that reduces wear and shortens bedding-in.

Aerodynamics and the 1+ cockpit

Ferrari quotes 1,050 kg of downforce. At the front, an S-duct in the bonnet joins the two wings, with two internal flaps that make a three-element arrangement. An active "reverse Gurney" flap works with the active rear wing, which moves continuously between a high-downforce setting for braking and corners and a low-drag setting for straights, based on acceleration, speed and steering angle. Under the car, three pairs of bargeboards guide the air to the rear, where the diffuser is 180 cm long. To make room for it, the engine and gearbox are rotated by 1.3 degrees.

The cabin is laid out as a "1+": the driver sits at the centre of attention, as in a single-seat racing car, while the passenger seat is placed further back and integrated into the trim. This offset allowed a narrower cabin. The steering wheel is new — smaller, flattened at the top and bottom and with physical buttons on both spokes.

Performance on the road and track

Ferrari quotes 2.15 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h and 5.75 seconds from 0 to 200 km/h, with a top speed of 350 km/h. At Ferrari's Fiorano test track the F80 lapped in 1:15.30, the fastest time recorded there by a road-legal Ferrari.

These figures combine the outputs of the V6 and the electric motors with all-wheel drive and the downforce of the body, which Wikipedia gives as 1,050 kg at speed.

Production and customer cars

The F80 is limited to 799 cars, built in Maranello. Wikipedia mentions a tailor-made car seen in Monaco in April 2026 in a red Rosso Supercar livery without the standard black bonnet band and black roof.

Place in Ferrari history

The F80 is the latest in Ferrari's line of limited flagship cars, after the F40, the F50, the Enzo and the LaFerrari. Its name and black bonnet band look back to earlier Ferraris, while its engine comes from the Le Mans-winning 499P and its electric motors from Ferrari's Formula One know-how. The company's wider story is told in our history of Ferrari.

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