The path has been laid for Ferrari in the foreseable future. At the bottom of the range, we now have the revised California T, with its muted turbocharged V8 engine (detailed in the video posted below). At the other end, we have the mean LaFerrari, a car that uses a V12 and electric motors to nudge towards 1,000 hp.
This is the path Ferrari will take for all its new cars, according to the company’s powertrain director, Vittorio Dini.
“Our average CO2 emissions are currently about 270 grams of CO2 per kilometer. We want to use all the available technologies to reduce emissions by 3 percent each year, which means approximately a 20 percent decrease by 2021,” he told Autonews Europe. It is thoroughly realizable ambition, since they’ve cut emissions considerably already – 40 percent cut since 2007 when they were putting out 435 g/km on average.
If you’re wondering why they won’t be using turbos on their V12, the reason seems to be the fact that they’d need four of them and, according to Autonews, it would be a waste of space in the engine bay.
By Andrei Nedelea
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