Check Out the 2026 Ferrari F80's Pictures

 The Ferrari F80 will join the elite lineage that stretches back to the 288GTO, a new Ferrari halo car that only appears once every ten years.

Published: Oct 17, 2024

                                                                             

The 2026 Ferrari F80, the sixth in a series of halo cars that starts with the 288GTO and ends with the LaFerrari, is a brand-new supercar from Ferrari that is modeled after Formula 1.

 
With its V-6 engine and three electric motors, the F80 can produce 1184 horsepower.

 
There will only be 799 produced, and sales to American consumers will begin in early 2026.

A red-painted chimney outside Ferrari's E-Building symbolizes the highest point that a Ferrari structure can be. The strategy pays homage to Ferrari's reluctance to physically rule Maranello, Italy, a town that Ferrari characterizes in a multitude of ways.


It's an ironic milestone, given we don't typically associate Ferrari with humility. Particularly in regards to the Ferrari supercars—the truly exceptional ones—which ranged from the 288GTO to the LaFerrari, all produced in limited quantities with the intention of showcasing the F1-inspired performance of their respective periods. We can now add the 2026 F80, a 1184-hp representation of everything Ferrari knows about street-legal performance, to that brief but impressive list. This is why you should send some red smoke out the chimney.

                                               

Shift in Power

Although the Enzo and LaFerrari, the F80's two direct ancestors, had V-12 engines, the F80's internal combustion engine is a 3.0-liter V-6 with a rev limit of 9200 rpm. Why? Given that Ferrari views their 120-degree V-6 as its main powertrain and that Formula 1 now uses V-6s, this car is not concerned with nostalgia. Furthermore, this isn't the V-6 from the Z24 Chevy Cavalier owned by your cousin Willy. On its alone, it produces 888 horsepower and 627 pound-feet of torque with zero-lag help from its electronic turbochargers. Three electric motors provide an additional 296 horsepower: two on the front axle (which allow torque vectoring) and one positioned in between the engine and the eight-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission.

Strangely enough, though, the F80's four-figure output isn't even its most important stat—this for a car with 1184 horsepower.

The downforce figure, which is absurd—2315 pounds of downforce at 155 mph—deserves praise, in our opinion. How does a car with such a sleek and clean appearance produce more downforce than large-winged mutant vehicles like the Dodge Viper ACR and McLaren Senna? There is dynamic aero, where the rear wing lifts up and angles at an 11-degree angle into the slipstream when in high downforce mode. Additionally, there's everything that's hidden beneath the vehicle, such the expansive rear diffuser and the expertly sculpted carbon-fiber floorpan.

Although it's cliche to refer to any supercar as an F1 car with fenders, the F80's underbody appears to be from an open-wheel car when it's put on a wall.
That or it's the molten shell of some kind of alien that you really don't want to meet. The first two and a half feet of the F80 are devoted to cooling and downforce, with air channeled from underneath the car up over the windshield. In a world of neat overhangs, this means that the front end is practically a massive wing in disguise.

And it's a unique face, defying anthropomorphic interpretation with a black mask across the hood and headlights. According to Ferrari Chief Design Officer Flavio Manzoni, he purposefully eschewed the humanoid appearance of "two eyes, one mouth" that is conveyed by headlights and a grille in favor of something far more intriguing and unusual. "Sci-fi is an inspiration for this car," he explains.

                                 

Suspension in Action

This distaste for traditional methods also applies to the suspension, which has to balance two seemingly incompatible objectives: providing a smooth ride and managing the downforce generated by fast-moving race cars. When an unseen elephant sits down on the roof at 150 miles per hour, how can you prepare? Ferrari claims to have found a solution to this problem with Multimatic's 48-volt dynamic suspension, which can stiffen up to counteract the more than a ton of downforce at high speeds or relax on a low-speed drive. The system additionally endeavors to optimize the efficiency of the car's aerodynamic components by preserving the attitude and ride height that provide the most benefits in a particular scenario.

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