Called the Dodici Cilindri, or 12 Cilindri – literally translated as 12 Cylinder – Ferrari's all-too-obvious naming strategy suggests this is something of a last blast for the Maranello-based marque, as it celebrates the engine that's powered some of its greatest grand tourer hits.

Yeah, the 2025 Ferrari 12 Cilindri is awful fast in a straight line. The speed is hardly surprising, perhaps, given the new 12 Cilindri packs the most powerful V-12 ever installed in a factory-built front-engine Ferrari,

This new car looks like a spaceship, like a Syd Mead movie prop fantasy come to life, like an alternative automotive path, bridging, as Ferrari design head Flavio Manzoni told me, “the past and the future,

And no Ferrari has made me feel more like a dad than the 12Cilindri I just drove in, of all places, the European grand duchy of Luxembourg. Officially the exterior paint is Giallo