Ferrari’s 296 Speciale isn’t playing games. It’s the hardened, track-focused evolution of Maranello’s already potent hybrid V6 platform.
Ferrari stripped away the fat and dialed up the aggression. The result? 880 cv of combined hybrid fury that’ll pin you to your carbon-backed seat without apology.
Formula 1 DNA, Street Legal Packaging
The 296 Speciale takes Ferrari’s 120° V6 architecture and weaponizes it. The combustion engine now delivers 700 cv at 8000 rpm through hardware that wouldn’t look out of place in a racing program.
Titanium connecting rods. Reinforced pistons. Lightened crankshaft. Formula 1-derived knock control.
The electric motor supplements with 180 cv in the new extra boost mode, working in harmony with an 8-speed DCT that shifts faster than your neurons can fire.
This isn’t marketing fluff. It’s engineering that translates directly to asphalt-warping performance:
- 0-100 km/h: 2.8 seconds
- 0-200 km/h: 7.0 seconds
- Top speed: >330 km/h
- Fiorano lap: 1’19”
Aerodynamics That Mean Business
Downforce jumps 20% over the standard 296 GTB, generating 435 kg at 250 km/h.
The front bonnet hides an aero damper. The rear bumper sprouts vertical fins with side wings. The active rear spoiler transitions between configurations faster than before, adding a medium downforce mode for when you’re feeling indecisive about how hard to push.
Carbon fiber and Alcantara blanket the interior and exterior. Every gram matters when you’re hunting lap times.
Convertible Gets Special Treatment Too
The 296 Speciale A variant brings open-air brutality with its flying bridge roof design and dark chromatic treatment.
Ferrari even lets you personalize it with racing stripes and numbers. Because nothing says “track day hero” like custom livery on your $400,000+ drop-top hybrid.
The 296 Speciale represents Ferrari’s return to six-cylinder glory, but with none of the compromises that plagued the Dino era. It’s their first 6-cylinder production car since those days, but now with hybrid assistance and enough technology to make NASA engineers nod approvingly.
It proves that hybridization doesn’t mean sanitization. It means more power, more control, and more speed.
The engineers won this round. The marketers just got to watch.
