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Ferrari hypercars only come around once per decade. Can a V6 be a worthy enough powertrain?

Just how spectacular is the new Ferrari F80? This once-a-decade hypercar has the grandest of predecessors: the GTO (aka 288), F40, F50, Enzo and LaFerrari. 

Into the pantheon now comes this, the F80, the most technologically advanced road car Ferrari has ever made. It uses a 3.0-litre V6 making a whopping 888bhp (900hp), to which it adds three electric motors - one at the rear and two at the front - to give a system total of 1184bhp (1200hp).

And it's going after lap times. At five seconds a lap faster around Ferrari's Fiorano test track than a LaFerrari, the F80 becomes so fast that it's the first special Ferrari opted to launch outside its facility.

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Matt Prior

Matt Prior
Title: Editor-at-large

Matt is Autocar’s lead features writer and presenter, is the main face of Autocar’s YouTube channel, presents the My Week In Cars podcast and has written his weekly column, Tester’s Notes, since 2013.

Matt is an automotive engineer who has been writing and talking about cars since 1997. He joined Autocar in 2005 as deputy road test editor, prior to which he was road test editor and world rally editor for Channel 4’s automotive website, 4Car. 

Into all things engineering and automotive from any era, Matt is as comfortable regularly contributing to sibling titles Move Electric and Classic & Sports Car as he is writing for Autocar. He has a racing licence, and some malfunctioning classic cars and motorbikes. 

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