Ferrari has long insisted on keeping its venerable V12 engine in production as it electrifies its range and new spy photos suggest tests are underway on a 12-cylinder successor to the Ferrari 812 Superfast.
Spotted on the roads near the supercar firm’s Maranello factory, the car is clearly in the very early stages of development, given that it sports a modified Ferrari Roma body. A full prototype isn’t expected to hit the road until the highly anticipated Ferrari Purosangue SUV is revealed later this year.
The Roma is sold exclusively with a 3.9-litre V8, but could be used to test components for a next-generation V12 car as it uses Ferrari’s new flexible architecture – which is capable of housing V6, V8 engines and front-mounted V12s. – while the 812 Superfast, whose order books closed in February, uses an older platform.
Beneath the camouflage, the Roma prototype looks nearly identical to the production car, but subtle tweaks hint at a larger, more powerful engine being fitted to the front. The bonnet is longer than on the standard car, for example, while the front bumper has been reshaped slightly to accommodate new air vents.
In its most powerful form, as featured in the mid-engined SP3 Daytona, Ferrari’s current naturally aspirated V12 produces 829 hp and 514 lb-ft – but the firm has already squeezed out 848 hp from the engine for the FXX Evoluzione only. on track in 2007.
These new photos were taken just a week after Ferrari confirmed it would release its first all-electric model in 2025. The supercar firm has been working on the EV for some time but has previously declined to commit to a release date. launch. He said he was waiting to develop suitable technology.
But speaking at Ferrari’s annual general meeting last week, chairman John Elkann said: “You can be sure it will be everything the engineers and designers at Maranello could imagine for such a milestone in our story.”
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Source: www.autocar.co.uk
This notice was published: 2022-04-22 10:33:12
