Why was there no VS/Versione Speciale for the F8?

I wrote more detail here:

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/posts/146775380/

 

almost no Pista have GPF, I think a few in EU did somewhere but maybe it was zero, however it was more than just GPF it was other exhaust fumes that were being regulated and noise levels and probably more (maybe a crash regulation for which no derogation is possible, only for emissions), the emissions regulations came out in 2018 and, if you had a chance to review all the links in my linked post from years ago, Ferrari had derogations (allowing them to delay emissions compliance) that were expiring...but not crash/safety regulations

 

They broke the streak because development had shifted to V6 hybrid, consistent with where F1 development is. All special versions were basically the pre-cursor to the successor model but in this case they knew there wouldn’t be a V8 turbo ICE successor to the V8 so instead of spending money on developing a higher performance V8 they put the development dollars in the turbo V6 hybrid.

The total production numbers for the F8 are lower than the 488 and 458. 2020, 2021 and 2022 model years for the coupe. I’m only aware of one 2023 model year coupe.

This is from ChatGPT and Perplexity AI….

458: ~21,000 - 25,000 cars manufactured among all variants
488: 18,000 - 21,000 among all variants
F8: 15,000 - 16,000 total coupe and spiders.




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those numbers seem VERY accurate- great idea to use AI to scour the internet of all numbers and speculations to come with production numbers since Ferrari won't tell us... but those seem to be quite sensible to me.

 

Has anyone put together a full list of production numbers using latest technology on FChat?

 

No, Pista does not have GPF

 

Hence F8 Tributo-

 

No Pista (not one) has GPF.
It was explained extensively by Ferrari how they had to adapt the Pista engine to GPF for the F8.
As already mentioned, the F8 was not part of the initial plan; the 296 (or whatever it could have been called, the hybrid V6) should have followed the Pista, which was supposed to end the 488 line as the usual VS. But the 296 was not ready in time, so they had the idea to make a final V8 by putting the Pista engine (modified with GPF because of the regulations they could not work around for a new model) in a last 488 evolution. This was a kind of afterthought, but did actually make sense to put a real conclusion to the V8 history for the mainstream berlinetta (the V8 will go on as hybrid in the new top performance range debuting with the SF90).
That's the current situation as far as I understand it, still subject to change in the future.

 

no

 

Speciale there’s and there will be only one [emoji5]