Ferrari has stopped taking orders for the F8 Tributo coupe and F8 Spider sports activities vehicles, the model’s best-selling fashions in Europe in 2021. 

Jacopo Marcon, product supervisor for the sports activities automotive phase at Ferrari, earlier this month confirmed the corporate’s choice, which had been rumored amongst Ferrari fans. 

Marcon spoke at a media take a look at occasion for the 296 GTB coupe, a six-cylinder plug-in hybrid mannequin that was unveiled final 12 months and whose first deliveries are beneath means.

Ferrari didn’t clarify why gross sales of the F8 fashions have been halted, however CEO Benedetto Vigna stated in a name with analysts in February that Ferrari at the moment has “the strongest ever order ebook in its historical past” that can cowl the corporate “properly into 2023.” 

Orders for the F8 most probably already account for the fashions’ complete deliberate manufacturing run.

Marcon stated manufacturing of the F8 was persevering with however didn’t say when the mannequin’s life cycle would finish. The F8 Tributo coupe was launched in 2019 and the Spider sibling mannequin in 2020. The coupe’s predecessor, the 488 GTB, was in Ferrari’s lineup from 2015 to 2019.

The 296 GTB will reportedly succeed the eight-cylinder F8 Tributo, though Ferrari has by no means confirmed such a method. Regardless of its smaller engine, the 296 GTB is extra highly effective than the F8 Tributo (819 hp versus 710 hp) because of the 165 hp added by the electrical motor to the 654 hp V-6 gasoline engine.

Ferrari has stated it’s downsizing from V-8s as a result of by combining a V-6 with electrical motors it could possibly match eight-cylinder efficiency whereas additionally decreasing emissions and bettering gasoline economic system.

Requested if Ferrari would construct V-8 sports activities coupes sooner or later, Marcon pointed to the SF90 Stradale plug-in hybrid supercar, which produces 986 hp from a turbocharged V8 plus three electrical motors.

The SF90 Stradale is priced at 430,000 euros ($471,000) in Italy. Additionally it is out there as a roadster, the SF90 Spider. The bottom worth of the F8 Tributo coupe was 236,000 euros, whereas the 296 GTB will begin at 269,000 euros.

In keeping with Dataforce, Ferrari offered 1,792 F8s in 2021 in Europe, greater than one-third of the model’s complete of 5,072. Ferrari stated the F8 Tributo coupe accounted for about 55 p.c of orders, and the Spider about 45 p.c.