2025 Ferrari F80 revealed
This is the most exclusive, expensive, and fastest car set to roll into Ferrari showrooms around the world.
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Unimaginable performance. Unrivalled technical sophistication. And unobtainable … even for those able to afford the multimillion price-tag. This may be all you need – or want – to know about the new Ferrari F80.
Unveiled earlier this week at the company’s factory, this car is maximum Maranello.
The F80 features Ferrari’s most advanced technology, much of it derived from current race cars, wrapped in a body that blends aero and art. It’s a no-expense-spared expression of the Italian band’s prowess.
Ferrari only produces a pinnacle model like this every decade or so. The F80 is a successor to the 2013 La Ferrari, and a line that stretches back through the Enzo, F50 and F40 models to the GTO of 1984.
Though the very first F80 will not be delivered until late 2025, the entire production run of 799 is already taken. Between 15 and 20 will come to Australia. Only top Ferrari customers, those with a history of buying high-end Maranello machinery, are allowed to have an F80.
Even so, some who wanted to buy have been disappointed. “The big problem we have today is to manage customers who didn’t get an allocation,” joked Ferrari global marketing boss Enrico Galliera at the F80 reveal event.
The price of the F80 in Italy, taxes included, is €3.6 million, by the way. That’s the equivalent of $5.9 million, though Australia’s luxury car tax will surely push this higher.
But awesome money does buy something, well, awesome. The F80 will be the most powerful road car ever made by Maranello, is already the fastest ever around Ferrari’s hometown Fiorano test track, can accelerate from standstill to 100km/h in little more than two seconds and has a top speed limited to 350km/h.
The F80 is a hybrid, but one that’s nothing like a petrol-electric Toyota Camry or RAV4. Instead the Ferrari adopts technology broadly similar to the 499P racer that won the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023 and 2024.
Like the 499P, the F80’s internal combustion engine is a mid-mounted 3.0-litre shallow-angle V6 developed from the all-new engine introduced in the Ferrari 296 GTB sports car.
Boosted by a pair of electric turbochargers, the V6 produces around three quarters of the F80 powertrain’s maximum combined output of 883kW. The remainder is provided by a pair of electric motors in the front axle and third connected to the engine.
The car’s battery pack utilises cell chemistry derived from Ferrari’s current Formula 1 race car. Though the 800-volt battery can deliver up to 242kW, it’s small and cannot be externally charged. This means the F80 isn’t a plug-in hybrid, and cannot drive in electric-only mode.
There’s more motorsport influence in the F80’s design. “I started with a provocation,” said Ferrari design chief Flavio Manzoni. He suggested the F80 be made a single-seater. This idea was considered … and rejected. But Manzoni was permitted to design a two-seat interior with a real race car flavour.
The seats are tilted backwards for a racer-like feet-up driving position behind the small and squared steering wheel. The passenger seat is fixed and located aft of the adjustable driver’s seat. This allows the two seats to be moved closer to the car’s centre line and the width of the cabin, and the car’s frontal area, to be reduced.
Aerodynamics dominate the F80’s exterior design. Up front is a massive duct inspired by the 499P racer, while at the rear is an active wing that can adjust both height and angle. At 250km/h these features contribute much of the F80’s 1000kg-plus of grip-enhancing downforce.
Stripped of its skin, the F80 is even more impressive. This exposes the car’s carbon fibre central structure, racer-like suspension layout, high-tech 48-volt active dampers, massive Brembo carbon brakes and more. Some components of this Ferrari – the gorgeous 3D-cast upper rear suspension arms, for example – wouldn’t look out of place in a gallery.
Not everyone has the same taste in art, of course. But it’s not hard to imagine someone wealthy who might prefer an F80 in their garage to, say, a van Gogh on their wall …
Originally published as 2025 Ferrari F80 revealed
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