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For a complete list, including future and concept car models, see List of Ferrari road cars.

166 Inter Touring Berlinetta

The first vehicle made with the Ferrari name was the 125 S. This was primarily a sports/racing model. In
1949, the 166 Inter was introduced marking the company's significant move into the grand touring road
car market. The first 166 Inter was a four seat (2+2) berlinetta coupe with body work designed by
Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera. Road cars quickly became the bulk of Ferrari sales.

The early Ferrari cars typically featured bodywork designed and customised by independent
coachbuilders such as Pininfarina, Scaglietti, Zagato, Vignale and Bertone. Starting in the early 2010s with
the LaFerrari, the focus was shifted to what is now the standard, Ferrari relying on in-house design from
the Centro Stile Ferrari.

The original road cars were typically two-seat front-engined V12s. This platform served Ferrari very well
through the 1950s and 1960s. In 1968 the Dino was introduced as the first two-seat rear mid-engined
Ferrari. The Dino was produced primarily with a V6 engine, however, a V8 model was also developed.
This rear mid-engine layout would go on to be used in many Ferraris of the 1980s, 1990s and to the
present day. Current road cars typically use V8 or V12 engines, with V8 models making up well over half
of the marque's total production. Historically, Ferrari has also produced flat 12 engines.

For a time, Ferrari built 2+2 versions of its mid-engined V8 cars. Although they looked quite different
from their 2-seat counterparts, both the GT4 and Mondial were closely related to the 308 GTB.[citation
needed]

The company has also produced several front-engined 2+2 cars, culminating in the current V12 model
Lusso and V8 models Roma, Portofino and Lusso T. The California is credited with initiating the popular
current model line of V8 front-engined 2+2 grand touring performance sports cars.[citation needed]

Ferrari entered the mid-engined 12-cylinder fray with the Berlinetta Boxer in 1973. The later Testarossa
(also mid-engined 12 cylinders) remains one of the most popular and famous Ferrari road cars of all
time.

Current models
GTC4Lusso

GTC4Lusso T F8 Tributo

F8 Spider Portofino 812 Superfast

812 GTS SF90 Stradale Roma

Front-mid engine, rear/four-wheel drive

4-seat grand tourer

V12 engine, Twin-turbo V8 engine

Shooting brake coupé

Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive

Sports car

Twin-turbo V8 engine

Sports coupé / Hard-top convertible

Front-mid engine, rear-wheel drive

2+2 grand tourer

Twin-turbo V8 engine

Hard-top convertible
Front-mid engine, rear-wheel drive

Sports car

V12 engine

Sports coupé / Hard-top convertible

Rear-mid engine, four-wheel drive

Sports car

PHEV Twin-turbo V8 engine

Sports coupé

Front mid-engine, rear-wheel drive

"2+" grand tourer

Twin-turbo V8 engine

Sports coupé
Customization

In the 1950s and 1960s, clients often personalized their vehicles as they came straight from the factory.
[25] This philosophy added to the mystique of the brand. Every Ferrari that comes out of Maranello is
built to an individual customer's specification. In this sense, each vehicle is a unique result of a specific
client's desire.

Ferrari formalized this concept with its earlier Carrozzeria Scaglietti programme. The options offered
here were more typical such as racing seats, rearview cameras, and other special trim. In late 2011,
Ferrari announced a significant update of this philosophy. The Tailor Made programme allows clients to
work with designers in Maranello to make decisions at every step of the process. Through this program
almost any trim, any exterior color or any interior material is possible. The program carries on the
original tradition and emphasizes the idea of each car being unique.[25]

Enzo Ferrari

Supercars

Mythos

The 1984 288 GTO may be considered the first in the line of Ferrari supercars. This pedigree extends
through the Enzo Ferrari to the LaFerrari. In February 2019, at the 89th Geneva International Motor
Show, Ferrari revealed its latest mid-engine V8 supercar, the F8 Tributo.[26]

Ferrari SF90 Stradale is the first-ever Ferrari to feature PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) architecture
which sees the internal combustion engine integrated with three electric motors, two of which are
independent and located on the front axle, with the third at the rear between the engine and the
gearbox.[27]

Concept cars and specials

Ferrari has produced a number of concept cars, such as the Mythos. While some of these were quite
radical (such as the Modulo) and never intended for production, others such as the Mythos have shown
styling elements which were later incorporated into production models.
The most recent concept car to be produced by Ferrari themselves was the 2010 Millechili.

A number of one-off special versions of Ferrari road cars have also been produced, commissioned to
coachbuilders by wealthy owners. Recent examples include the P4/5[28] and the 412 Kappa.

Ferrari Special Projects

The Special Projects programme was launched in the late 2000s as Ferrari's ultimate in-house
personalization service, enabling customers to own bespoke bodied one-offs based on modern Ferrari
road cars.[29] Engineering and design is done by Ferrari, sometimes in cooperation with external design
houses like Pininfarina or Fioravanti, and the vehicles receive full homologation to be road legal.[29]

The first car to be completed under this programme was the 2008 SP1, commissioned by a Japanese
business executive, the second was the P540 Superfast Aperta, commissioned by an American collector.
[29] The following is a list of Special Projects cars that have been made public:

Name Picture Year Based on Commissioned by Notes

SP1 No image 3x4.svg 2008 F430[30] Junichiro Hiramatsu[30] Design by


Leonardo Fioravanti.[30]

P540 Superfast Apert Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta.jpg 2009 599 GTB[31] Edward
Walson[31] Inspired by a similarly gold-painted and open-topped one-off built by Carrozzeria
Fantuzzi on a Ferrari 330 LMB chassis.[29][31]

Superamerica 45 Ferrari Superamerica 45 in Villa Erba.jpg 2011 599 GTB[32] Peter


Kalikow[32] Rotating targa top;[32] design by Pininfarina

SP12 EC FerrariSP12EC.jpg 2012 458 Italia[33] Eric Clapton[33] Designed by


Ferrari Styling Centre and Pininfarina, in homage to the 512 BB.[33]

SP30 2013[34] 599 GTO[34] Cheerag Arya[34]

SP FFX No image 3x4.svg 2014 FF[35] Shin Okamoto[35] Design by Pininfarina[35]

Ferrari F12 TRS Festival automobile international 2015 - Ferrari F12 TRS - 007 (cropped).jpg 2014
F12berlinetta[36] — Barchetta body, inspired by the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. Design
by Ferrari Styling Centre.[36]

Ferrari SP America No image 3x4.svg 2014 F12berlinetta Danny Wegman[37]

Ferrari 458 MM Speciale FoS20162016 0624 132509AA (27809762691).jpg 2016 458


Speciale[38] — Design by Ferrari Styling Centre.[38]

SP275 RW Competizione Ferrari SP275 RW Competizione.jpg 2016 F12tdf Rick


Workman[39] Inspired by the 1964 275 GTB/C Speciale. Design by Pininfarina in collaboration with
Ferrari Styling Centre.[40]

Ferrari J50 2017 488 Spider —

SP38 2018 488 GTB — Inspired by the F40 and 308.[41]

Ferrari SP3JC No image 3x4.svg 2018 F12tdf John Collins[42] Designed by the Ferrari
Styling Centre. Two matching cars ordered, one in LHD, the other in RHD with different liveries.[43] Took
3.5 years to complete. Presented in 2018.

P80/C No image 3x4.svg 2019 488 GT3 — One-off track-only car inspired by the
330 P3, 330 P4 and the Dino 206 S.

Bio-fuel and hybrid cars

An F430 Spider that runs on ethanol was displayed at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show. At the 2010 Geneva
Motor Show, Ferrari unveiled a hybrid version of their flagship 599. Called the "HY-KERS Concept",
Ferrari's hybrid system adds more than 100 horsepower on top of the 599 Fiorano's 612 HP.[44] Also in
mid-2014, the flagship LaFerrari was put into production.

Naming conventions

From the beginning, the Ferrari naming convention consisted of a three-digit unitary displacement of an
engine cylinder with an additional suffix representing the purpose of a vehicle. Therefore, Ferrari 125 S
had 1.5 L (1496.77 cc) V12 engine with a unitary displacement of 124.73 cc; whilst S-suffix represented
Sport. Other race cars also received names invoking particular races like Ferrari 166 MM for Mille Miglia.
With the introduction of road-going models, suffix Inter was added, inspired by Scuderia Inter racing
team of Igor Troubetzkoy. Popular at that time 166-series had 2.0 L (1995.02 cc) engines with 166.25 cc
of unitary displacement and a very diverse 250-series had 3.0 L (2953.21 cc) of total displacement and
246.10 cc of unitary. Later series of road cars were renamed Europa and top of the line series: America
and Superamerica.

Until the early 1990s, Ferrari followed a three-number naming scheme based on engine displacement
and a number of cylinders:

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