Celebrate Ferrari's Engine Of The Year Win With Glorious Exhaust Noise
Ferrari has done rather nicely for itself at the International Engine of the Year Awards. The firm’s naturally-aspirated V12 won the above 4.0-litre category, while Maranello’s 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8 won the 3.0 - 4.0-litre and Performance Engine categories, along with the overall International Engine of the Year prize. Oh, and it’s done all of those for the second year running.
The 3.9-litre engine currently powers the 488 GTB and 488 Spider, where it puts out 661bhp. Meanwhile, a closely related 3.8-litre version can be found in the California T and GTC4Lusso T.
Instead of cracking out the champagne, we thought it’d be more appropriate to celebrate with some lovely exhaust noise. So, posted above you’ll find a noisy video cut from our recent 488 Stelvio pass adventure. Enjoy…
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If Enzo Ferrari would have been alive he would have been the happiest man alive!😢
I don’t think the turbo V8 sounds good at all.
Alex Kersten , why!?!? does your camera make all Ferrari red cars look like ORANGE! The taillights still kinda look like red, but the paint :’)
See also: https://www.carthrottle.com/post/wvkdqxo/
To be honest, I prefer the McLaren V8’s sound. Or for that matter most other V8s (AMG 63, Corvette, M5 etc)
Wow, this article is thin on info. No info on why it was the best engine? No mentioning any tech related to it? Is it a winner just because there is a prancing horse on the inlet?
Did they play around with the sound for a little bit? Not even the 488 GT3 sounds that good.
Crappy video … dude never even winds it out!
Now drift it back down