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Ferrari's F8 Tributo – a spectacular homage to past models

Ferrari's F8 Tributo – a spectacular homage to past models

You could do the commute and even shopping trips, in a way you couldn’t in an old school, temperamental supercar, but the F8 is really a weekend special.

The Tributo looks impressive with that low nose and swooping silhouette, huge brake calipers inside open pattern wheels, and an array of carbon-fibre highlights catching the light. 

In keeping with its name, the bodywork of the F8 Tributo includes homages to various classic Ferraris.

The most obvious is the Perspex-style engine cover, a nod to the F40 of the 1980s. But the F8 is also fitted with a very modern Ferrari innovation: the aerodynamic S-Duct in the centre of its nose, to better tie the front-end down at speed.

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Tony Davis
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