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Ferrari: company history, current performance-car programmes, past models and the SuperCarNews perspective.

By SuperCarNews · Updated 6 September 2026
Ferrari F80 at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Ferrari F80 at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of SpeedPhoto: Calreyn88 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized; display crop.
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The Ferrari story

Enzo Ferrari’s 125 S was the first car to bear his name in 1947. Its twelve-cylinder engine and competition debut established a link between the road-car marque and racing that remains central to how the company presents its engineering. That origin gives the modern range context, but it does not require every new Ferrari to follow the same mechanical formula.

Ferrari’s road-car history contains several distinct traditions: the front-engined grand tourer, the mid-engined sports car and the limited flagship. During the opening years of this archive, the F355, F50 and 550 expressed those traditions in very different ways. The following decades brought aluminium construction, increasingly capable electronic controls, turbocharged range cars and hybrid assistance. The current lineup makes more sense when those parallel histories remain visible.

The Ferrari we find most interesting is the one with a clear reason to exist. A twelve-cylinder grand tourer does not need to justify itself against a hybrid flagship on acceleration alone. Maranello’s strength is the ability to give those different briefs their own proportions, mechanical layout and sense of occasion. Its challenge is preserving that distinction as the range expands.

Current lineup & programmes

Performance and specialist model families are listed below. Programme status describes the manufacturer’s published range or announcement, rather than stock or an available allocation. Open-top and special derivatives are grouped where they share a family; follow the model link for the distinctions.

F80

Current programme · 2020s

Past models

Past performance-car families relevant to our 1996–2026 archive. A surviving product page or conversion catalogue does not mean the original donor car remains in production.

F355

Archive · 1990s

F50

Archive · 1990s

The SuperCarNews view

The F355 arrived in 1994 and remains essential to understanding the start of this archive. Its five-valve-per-cylinder V8 and the later introduction of the F1-style automated manual gearbox put it at a meeting point between familiar mechanical rituals and electronic intervention. Berlinetta, GTS and Spider bodies offered different ways into the same family; the Challenge car belongs to the competition story.

We think its significance goes beyond the appeal of a manual gear gate. The F355 shows that the analogue Ferrari people now romanticise was already a technologically ambitious product. That makes it a useful antidote to the idea that innovation only began to dilute character recently. The more interesting question is how successfully each innovation serves the car.

Ferrari’s February 2026 investor presentation identifies Ferrari Luce within its programme. That document establishes the name and planned changeover context; it does not, on its own, justify a detailed specification or an assertion about local customer deliveries. We therefore record it as an announced programme here, pending a fuller model-specific assessment.

The archive concentrates on road-going supercars, hypercars and closely related grand tourers. It does not attempt to turn every one-off commission, racing chassis or SUV into a separate model page. Significant variants are grouped where they help explain the parent family. This keeps the structure useful while preserving the distinctions that a reader needs to understand what each car actually is.

Sources & further reading