Ferrari F80

A few crude screengrabs of the visible carbon car from some of the review vids

 

Well, this looks fun.

It looks better moving for some reason to me. And I like this color.

 

Have to say..it looks much better in motion. Seems despite the initial consternation Ferrari have made a brilliant car

 

Mic drop!!!

 

Chris also said its better than the Valkyrie and the Mercedes 1. I think Chris's review was the best to fully understand what it feels like to drive the car.

 

I don't think technical brilliance and performance were ever a question. All Ferrari's of late have been top performers and technically superior or at least up there. The polemics have been looks and soul (engine).

Also that the SF90XX is the ugliest Ferrari in a long time, which I've been saying since I first saw it.
I waited for this review to be posted and don't feel watching the rest is as important now.

 

The Ben Collins film is also good



People are getting used to the styling , it's like nothing else on the market right now, its pushed car design hugely forward.. It's wonderful..

 

Harris said the same about the F80 on his podcast, but now he loves it..

 

Watching all the reviews today, the fascinating part is really how they put together the complete package. There's no real flaw. And they were bold enough to throw away a V12 engine to get additional downforce.

That shows the engineers had more say in this car than the marketing people -- and that's unique. I applaud that. And its backed up with Le Mans victories.

Its not the prettiest car they have ever made. I've been warming up to the looks from the initial shock. But if you have $4M to spend on this car, you probably have $4M to spend on a classic.

 

Torque, packaging and the centre of gravity were main reasons for the V6... The LaF is amazing, but it was not designed around being the highest performance package possible. ..

The F80 is a road version package of the 3 time winning 499P LeMans car ..

 

I watched them all, I am completely impressed. The car fit the brief perfectly and is exactly what it was designed to be. Only Ferrari!

 

three best video of what achievements Ferrari do with this thing. Impressive fast on track and maga usability on road. Not for many manufacturers cars !

 

8 months ago on the car podcast with friends below is written what Chris Harris said about the F80. As he changed is mind after testing the F80 ?

"..I'm not convinced there's enough sort of headroom for this product within the sports car area. The bread and butter SF90 got a 1000 horsepower so the leap to the big daddy is a couple hundred horsepower of largely useless extra performance whereas in the day you know when a hypercard came out its raw numbers made you go oh my god this is unobtainable…"

".. also on a technical note I think I've never driven one of these cars that's got front axle electric power that is that really good, it's very difficult you know Porsche did about the best job of anyone with the 918 but even then you know you had to be a bit careful with it at times where I always thought this just rear axle package of LaFerrari and P1 was just brilliant fun so front axle really worries me."

"…but I just hate to say it whether you're journalist or a punter with money or you're like me , you're a dreamer, that looks at this stuff and thinks wow, you've got to respond to the gut reaction that you have to it you either go yeah wow I want this thing I just love this exits.
And there's another test that these things have to pass, these utter Halo cars if they are in any way undermined by a product that already exists in the range……then I think you're allowed to say that diminishes the impact of the Halo car and I think there's a Ferrari made a couple of years ago called the Daytona SP3, it's sort of gone under the radar, but effectively that's a LaFerrari without the electricity in it . That car it looks absolutely brilliant and if you offered me that or an F80 I wouldn't even look at the F80 I wouldn't even look at it…"

 

Looks GREAT.


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That's all influenced, in the test of the SF90 XX it was said that the car has too much power that you can't use on the road anyway. So Ferrari should rather build cars that are suitable for the road and have more emotions like the Competizione. Now you have a car with even more horsepower, but which is quieter on the outside than a new AMG 6 cylinder and sounds very artificial on the inside and that is supposed to be the best car, that's a bad joke.
Laferrari, Competizione, Monza SP2 are the ultimate cars. If you want the best on the racetrack, you buy an F1 car that is not much more expensive than an F80. Ferrari is currently trying everything to make the F80 popular. There has never been anything like it in the last 15 years, that some top customers have partially canceled the F80. A limited Ferrari that is difficult to sell says it all. The feedback from Harris is irrelevant.

 

How is the Monza SP2 the ultimate car? It is not a track car, not a street car, and a body kit on an 812.

 

Customers are canceling orders, umm, would love to know who as my dealer has 7 people on a waiting list.

 

The price is nuts. I think the car is fine. But for "800" (I put that number in quotation marks) cars made at $4M each its just too much.

And everyone knows they will build another 200 convertible versions and 50 or so competition versions that will be even more "special" and "collectible".

It also seems to me in these videos they are really playing up the non-track usage. A track only car is a really limited market.

 

I agree, they are charging way to much! I'm super excited to have the car, but super bummed about how much I have to spend.

 

Design, sound and pure emotion.

 

The customers themselves communicated so no dealer information. Sometimes even on Instagram.

 

Don't shoot me but it's Ferrari's Plymouth Prowler. I don't blame them for making it and I applaud it. A super car it is not. A money maker it is, even if you can't drive one in America.

 

Hmmmm... I thought these cars were invitation only from each dealer.

 

If this car has a knock, its that it just isn't pretty enough for $4M.

However I do like that Ferrari went very "racy" and not "Captain Nemo" like Pagani and Bugatti. Or fake "fighter pilot" like Lambo or "just plain boring" like McLaren.

It looks very serious inside and out without looking fake or cosplay racer.

I think they did a very good job here.