Ferrari will introduce a fully electric supercar in 2025, but the Italians also have an eye for cars with a hybrid powertrain. That doesn’t even have to be an eight-cylinder car. Ferrari is working on a hybrid entry-level sports car, a car that has to compete with the McLaren Artura, among others. That new hybrid Ferrari can be seen on spy image for the first time.
Ferrari is no stranger to hybrid technology, although few electrified models of the brand have appeared to date. The mighty LaFerrari already had a V12 connected to an electric motor behind the front seats and with the SF90 Stradale and SF90 Spider, Ferrari already has exotics with a plug-in hybrid powertrain on the menu. Ferrari is working on a new SUV and a successor to the LaFerrari, but also has a new sportsman with a hybrid powertrain in the development rooms that will probably expand the Ferrari offer downwards.
These spy photos, shot in Maranello, Italy, show a new Ferrari model, a car codenamed Progetto F171 internally and whispered in the corridors that it will be called Dino. The ‘Dino’, a nod to the son of Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari, who died early, will get a mid-engine, according to the rumor mill, but not just any. It would not be a V8, but a V6. Two cylinders less than we are used to from Ferrari, but to compensate, the six-cylinder is coupled to an electric motor. The new ‘Dino’ will have a hybrid and perhaps even plug-in hybrid powertrain. The V6 that is hung behind the front seats would remarkably enough not be related to the Nettuno six-cylinder that sister brand Maserati mounts in the MC20. Although it could just be that it is that machine that gets a place in the new Dino. Anyway, count on the new Ferrari coughing up more horsepower than the 620 pieces that the MC20 manages to bring to the asphalt.
It remains to be seen for a while and we will have to make do with these spy photos for now. We see a supercar still fanatically covered with camouflage stickers, of which especially the design of the front is somewhat reminiscent of that of the SF90’s. Whether the ‘Dino’ actually gets the buttocks visible in these photos and apparently inspired by that of the P3 and P4 or whether we are dealing with clever deception by Ferrari, remains to be seen.