To be honest I totally dismissed the 296 because of all the photos I'd seen I just thought what an ugly car. However I then got to see a plain red one in the flesh and actually asked what it was because in person just looks totally different, but agreed the 458 and F8 are much better looking cars, I've never been fond of the 488 myself, front end looks like a fat person sat on bonnet and huge grills.
To drive though the 296 has a lot of playfulness engineered into it which the F8 absolutely lost but the performance is blistering especially considering the gearing is now longer, I really enjoyed driving it but I think after a few months of ownership of one if lucky enough I'd once again find myself missing the 458.
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It is a 240k base car, 270k for GTS.
Handling pack is 25k
Fancy paint 20k
Necessary carbon bits 20k
No doubt many other options you probably need.
It is gonna be a 300-350k car, I can see them settling around 250k second hand for well spec cars, so a good 80-120k depreciation over next couple of years potentially, unless Ferrari shut the order books and have not actually sold that many, plus it is the first of this new platform, so there will be special editions no doubt to come unless Ferrari are literally going to stop making combustion/hybrid after 2025?
Looks aside one hell of a machine to drive and it sounds astonishing good on the interior, almost like a muted V12, very welcome surprise and then as another surprise you get turbo flutter and whooshing sounds, it is literally driving like all engine types combined into one engine the way it has huge torque from nothing but then pulls very hard right upto the 8500rpm limiter.
. They do sound awesome, especially some of the newer ones, think speed 12 has the big engine in.
