2025 Ferrari 12Cilindri is a 9500rpm love letter to the V12

It’s Ferrari’s all-new V12 flagship; a futuristic and surprisingly different-looking replacement to the brilliant 812 Superfast that is so obsessed with its own, even more powerful 12-cylinder engine that it has named itself after it: the Ferrari 12Cilindri.

Italian a little rusty? Translation: the Ferrari 12 Cylinders.

Power comes from Ferrari’s venerable F140 6.5-litre V12, an engine first used in the Enzo and later in the F12, 812 SF and Purosangue, but heavy modifications and fresh internals have lifted power to 610kW at a heady 9500rpm.

That’s a 22kW jump over the already obscenely powerful 812SF but it’s the higher rev limit that promises to truly elevate the driving experience.

The trade off with a higher rev-limit is slightly less torque (678Nm @ 7250rpm plays 718Nm @ 6750rpm in the 812 SF) but Ferrari’s engineers have worked hard to ensure the 12Cilindri doesn’t only rev more cleanly but that 80 percent of its torque is available from just 2500rpm.

Straight line performance? About on par with a the 812 Superfast. 0-100kmh takes 2.9 seconds, 200km/h is dispatched in 7.9sec and, if you have enough space, top speed is 340km/h.

A Spider version was also revealed and naturally it’s a little heavier (60kg to be precise) so it’s not quite as blistering. 0-100kmh takes 2.95 seconds, while 200km/h takes 8.2sec. Happily, the top speed is the same which should do wonders to your hair when the roof is down.

Underneath the 12Cilindri uses an all-new aluminium chassis that Ferrari says is 15 percent stiffer. The wheelbase is 20mm shorter than 812 SF, too, but the car itself is bigger. Overall length has grown by 76mm, width is now 56mm girthier and height is up by 16mm.

Despite new aluminium chassis, which also employs a new 100 percent recycled alloy for the gearbox strut towers, weight has crept up slightly to 1560kg dry for the Coupe and 1620kg for the Spider. That’s an increase of around 35kg over the 812 SF.

Now, the design. Quite the departure from the sculptural, vent-infused 812 SF isn’t it? Ferrari says it was targeting a cleaner look and the great expanse of the monolithic bonnet (which is now a single piece and front hinged) is interrupted only by two