RE: Ferrari 812 Superfast - official

[Jtotheg]

Anyone else seeing Audi A7 for the back of the car?

I'd still have one...

[Davey S2]

Mintbird said:

Bonkers, just like Ferrari should be.

Love it.

Traditionally Ferraris have been more restrained and elegant. Lambos were supposed to be bonkers.

I like it. Great to see a proper V12 (can't be many more cars that will have one).

[lucido grigio]

Like....

Not allowed to call the previous car Tour De France btw,some copywrite thing to do with some cycling thing.

[Gatsods]

LA458SP said:

Normal production replacement for F12.

Everybody is now free to go out and give their local dealer £250k for the latest and most powerful without being turned away because they don't meet the criteria for the limited run cars...

Happy days for all those 'enthusiast' who just want to drive the latest and greatest and are happy to live with depreciation

Not sure I get the 'enthusiast' animosity... £250k is still an awful lot of money. If you can 'only' afford one Ferrari at a time, who's to say you're less of an enthusiast than someone with a few £m to drop on a dozen?

On-topic, the 812 - and that engine - both delicious on paper. Look forward to the reviews.

[Dan Trent]

filski666 said:

four wheel steering from the Tour de France?

article said:

Making sense of that magnificent V12's output are, as you'd expect, a host of new tech features. EPAS makes its first appearance on a Ferrari - likely to raise a few eyebrows - and is paired with what Ferrari calls Virtual Short Wheelbase 2.0, or TdF style four-wheel steering by another name.

Cheers!

Dan

[PhantomPH]

LA458SP said:

Happy days for all those 'enthusiast' who just want to drive the latest and greatest and are happy to live with depreciation

Oh and Google says 800bhp is 811.096ps....so shouldn't it be called the 811 Superfast?

[lucido grigio]

PhantomPH said:

Oh and Google says 800bhp is 811.096ps....so shouldn't it be called the 811 Superfast?

Enzo's old abacus isn't very accurate nowadays...

[StottyGTR]

Looks absolutely incredible. Coupled with the 800hp v12 too should be one hell of a car.

[Butter Face]

StradoZ said:

According to Ferrari it's 800cv not ps or hp.

Which would make it circa 789hp.

http://auto.ferrari.com/en_EN/sports-cars-models/c...

CV is HP. It's just how the french and itailans word it.

[StradoZ]

Butter Face said:

StradoZ said:

According to Ferrari it's 800cv not ps or hp.

Which would make it circa 789hp.

http://auto.ferrari.com/en_EN/sports-cars-models/c...

CV is HP. It's just how the french and itailans word it.

Yeah (ps not hp), I realised that just as I posted it, obviously didn't delete it quickly enough!

[LA458SP]

Gatsods said:

LA458SP said:

Normal production replacement for F12.

Everybody is now free to go out and give their local dealer £250k for the latest and most powerful without being turned away because they don't meet the criteria for the limited run cars...

Happy days for all those 'enthusiast' who just want to drive the latest and greatest and are happy to live with depreciation

Not sure I get the 'enthusiast' animosity... £250k is still an awful lot of money. If you can 'only' afford one Ferrari at a time, who's to say you're less of an enthusiast than someone with a few £m to drop on a dozen?

On-topic, the 812 - and that engine - both delicious on paper. Look forward to the reviews.

No animosity meant and I shouldn't generalise but I just have to laugh at the current situation where many people (and I include myself in this) would happily drop £150k - £350k for the latest limited Porsche or Ferrari, say TDF or 911R comes to mind from a recent thread but get so irate that the dealer won't accept their cash "how dare they"! However here is the latest and most powerful model, the dealers are waiting with open arms, an opportunity to build/strengthen the relationships with their dealer... Will all these 'people' be rushing to place orders...

[je777]

Thank goodness it's got electric power steering: it's very important that this car should be more economical, whereas steering feel is of no concern to anyone.

[lufbramatt]

PhantomPH said:

Oh and Google says 800bhp is 811.096ps....so shouldn't it be called the 811 Superfast?

Maybe it's one of those things where "eight one one" or "eight eleven" either sounds rubbish or is hard to say in Italian so they rounded it up.

[Oddball RS]

'Wild aero'

My my......

[bertie]

lufbramatt said:

Maybe it's one of those things where "eight one one" or "eight eleven" either sounds rubbish or is hard to say in Italian so they rounded it up.

On the Ferrari site it says 800CV which is 789hp

So I guess the name derives from the 800CV and 12 cylinders.

.....oh, and the fact it's super fast!

[Ali_T]

Nice Corvette.

[E65Ross]

Ali_T said:

Nice Corvette.

the irony of you saying Ferrari have copied something, and yet you post something someone has already said

[323ti]

Not a fan of Ferrari or this cars' looks (preferred the F12's) but:

800hp normally aspirated V12 in front = well, it's like a Mk1 Spitfire, isn't it. With a revvy Italian Merlin engine.

Flat six, flat-plane crank V8, V10? Nowhere close. For the ultimate car only a V12 will do, and this one is good enough for me. By some margin. I don't even care if it handles, though I'm pretty sure it will just fine.

[sc0tt]

TSW Venoms

[rtz62]

jamespink said:

housen said:

http://talacrest.com/Ferrari-Sales/Ferrari-500-Sup...


the original

for sale

great story

great power

and POA

any ideas ?

I could stare at that all day!

Peter Sellers described his gold coloured Superfast as "Ganges-brown" and said that he didn't want anyone else to drive it but him. Also that when it was parked at The Dorchester that if the hotel caught fire and he wasn't there, they were to let it burn and then scatter the ashes in the Ganges.
As an aside, I'm sure I read somewhere that the Superfast engine was quite fragile, even by Ferrari standards?
I agree about the comments of the 500 Superfast, it was from an era when Ferrari made THE most beautiful cars in the world; personally I wouldn't care if the driving experience wasn't that great, I could just sit and look at it for hours..