What is it?
It’s Ferrari’s limited-edition, powered-up, pared-down F12tdf, seen here prowling UK roads for the very first time. We’ve driven it before in sun-kissed Italy, after which our estimable Matt Prior concluded, quite rightly, that it was a car that "takes some learning".
Transfer one thousand miles to the north-west, drop the temperature 20deg C or so and swap the hills around Maranello for a wet Welsh mountainside and we can probably upgrade that judgement to "takes some learning, unwavering concentration, a reasonable chunk of talent and every crumb of courage you can muster". We’ll get to why that is in the next section.
For now, however, let’s examine a little more closely exactly what we’re dealing with here. Ferrari will hate me for saying this, but the F12tdf is, in its basest sense, a run-out special. The F12’s much modified (but not entirely new) successor will be with us next year, so Ferrari needs something to maintain interest in the meantime. Some 799 are being built and offered to favoured owners for £339,000 a pop before they play fast and loose with the options. In broad terms that’s £100,000 – an Aston Vantage V8 S plus change – more than the F12. You’ll only stop snorting when you realise what, in addition to rarity value, that buys you.
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Reminds me of a TV show
typos1 - Just can’t respect opinion
flt158
If Autocar says they are all
I don't think that makes sense.
Safe driving.
Waiting in hope
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Greenracer
It seems to suggest that the
Winston Churchill
What a bunch of morons. It's
Matty_Hall
Can't Win
ivan_croatia
Looks like some tuning went bad
Einarbb
This version comes across as a track weapon
Fasteddie
2016 Ferrari F12tdf
ROB1Y
TDF
Everything Andrew described is spot on.
It really is scary - even in the dry but at the same time it's incredibly exciting & visceral.
Can't wait for more dry roads & sunny weather.
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