The author driving the 2020 Ferrari F8 Tributo in the hills above Fiorano Modenese, Italy.
Photographer: Federico Ciamei for Bloomberg Businessweek
The Most Beautiful Ferrari in a Decade Pays Tribute to Race Cars Past
By drawing on history to make the 2020 F8 Tributo, Ferrari’s designers have created an homage to the V-8 engine. Now, let’s take it for a test drive.
It’s comforting to know that some things never change. Markets may crumble, social media may demolish civil society, but fresh pasta, good wine, and the courtesy of Italian drivers who move over on the A1 when they’ve got a Ferrari on their tail—these things prevail across generations.
They’re like the Colosseum. Or the V-8 turbo engine. That’s the throbbing heart inside Ferrari NV’s 2020 F8 Tributo, a new offering from the 70-year-old company. As the name suggests, the $270,530 coupe pays tribute to the almost-sacred engines that have powered the automaker’s most successful cars since its first mid-engine V-8, in the 1975 Ferrari 308 GTB.