{"id":92009,"date":"2024-10-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/?p=92009"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:24:49","slug":"seloc-editorial-ferrari-f80-takes-a-different-route-to-a-flagship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/seloc-editorial-ferrari-f80-takes-a-different-route-to-a-flagship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari F80 takes a different route to a flagship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari chose a hybrid V6 for the F80. That surprised people who associate the company\u2019s limited-run flagships with V12s, but the decision makes more sense beside its endurance racing cars. The F80\u2019s engine, electrical assistance and aero are all doing a job, and the engine note is just one part of the result.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e2\/FerrariF80_%28resized%29.jpg\" alt=\"Ferrari F80 at Finali Mondiali 2024\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><figcaption>Ferrari F80 at Finali Mondiali 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:FerrariF80_%28resized%29.jpg\">Pauls.127 \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">CC0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On a public road, a driver will feel the response of the powertrain and the consistency of the brakes long before they get near the speed at which the aerodynamics earn their keep. Those are the things worth listening for when people who have driven it describe the car.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also why an Elise can still be good company for an afternoon. You can enjoy what it does best without needing a straight long enough to use a hypercar\u2019s best trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F80 makes more sense if you look at Ferrari\u2019s racing programme than if you count cylinders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[936,938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seloc-editorial-archive","category-supercars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92073,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92009\/revisions\/92073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}