Lamborghini isn’t the only supercar manufacturer committed to keeping the V12 alive, with Aston Martin even updating its V12. Now Ferrari’s archenemy will unveil the successor to the 812 Superfast this evening, and the Italian brand has confirmed that the as-yet-unnamed model will still feature 12 cylinders.
Ferrari is giving us details about the next addition to its lineup on various social media platforms. Below is a brief video posted to the company’s Instagram account, featuring footage of company founder Enzo Ferrari explaining what’s so great about the V12 engine.
“One day Von Karajan said to me: ‘Listening to your 12-cylinder engine evokes a harmony that no master will be able to interpret,’” he says in Italian. Von Karajan knew: although his career was not without controversy, he is widely considered one of the finest orchestral conductors of his era. The brief video then shows an intentionally blurred clip of another novel Ferrari model screaming its hearts out while accelerating.
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Ferrari sent another announcement on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. It’s a six-second video that shows glimpses of the company’s logo, what looks like an engine cover, and the space between the V12 engine’s cylinder heads. It also provides the date of unveiling: May 3, 2024.
So what in the name of Enzo are we looking at? Your guess is as good as ours. Apart from the V12, we know that everything in the pipeline will replace the 812 Superfast that debuted at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show. It’s not too far-fetched to assume that the basic layout of the car will not change: the V12 engine will remain centrally located at the front under a long hood. Time will tell whether the model will have rear- or all-wheel drive.
Stay up to date: Ferrari will present the model tomorrow at 2:00 a.m. in Italy – that is today, May 2, at 5:00 p.m. in California and at 8:00 p.m. in Fresh York.
