In addition to being the only team to have competed in every Formula 1 season since the world championship began in 1950, Ferrari made a name for itself by offering V12 grand tourers with bite-the-back-of-your-hand beautiful styling and superlative performance. The Prancing Horse of Maranello's first road-going car was the 166 Inter, which – as implied – displaces 166 cubic centimeters per cylinder.
Its modern-day descendant is the 812 series, which comes in four specifications: 812 Superfast, 812 GTS, 812 Competizione, and 812 Competizione A. Introduced at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show, the 812 series also spawned the Monza SP line of speedsters, consisting of the one-seat SP1 and two-seat SP2.
Even though it still looks fresh, the 812 has been on the chopping block since February 2022. That's when the Italian automaker stopped taking orders for the 812, meaning that Ferrari is currently developing a successor. Launching in the spring of 2024 as a 2025 model, the F167 was spied on multiple occasions.
The carparazzi originally spied Roma-bodied prototypes making V12 noises, then Ferrari started replacing the Roma's body panels with near-production or production-ready bodywork. Carparazzo Varryx recently spied both an early and a newer prototype, and the visual differences between them couldn't be more obvious. The near-production car, for example, features prominent front fenders.
Speaking of which, the 812 series and Purosangue both use Ferrari's long-running F140 engine. In these applications, the free-breathing V12 develops anything from 725 to 830 metric ponies. The most powerful iteration yet is the F140 HC of the limited-run Daytona SP3, which develops 840 ps (829 hp).
Photo: Varryx on YouTube
Italian reports and people in the know suggest 850 cavalli vapore (838 mechanical horsepower) from the F167's engine, which does make sense. With the 812 Competizione developing 819 horsepower and the 812 Superfast boasting 789 horsepower, just around 20 more horsepower sounds right for the long-awaited 812 successor. What's more, remember that Ferrari improved the F12berlinetta from 740 metric ponies (730 hp) to 780 ps (769 hp) for the F12tdf.
A name that every Ferrari collector is aware of, Marcel Massini understands that Ferrari will debut the F167 on May 2 in Miami. Why, though? Because the Ferrari Cavalcade International USA 2024 will end in Miami, and because the 2024 Miami GP race weekend is scheduled for May 3 through May 5.
Cavalcade participants are invited to the debut by default, which is only natural given that the participation fee is $58,000. An additional package for the Miami GP adds $35,000 to the tally. The Cavalcade International USA starts in Nashville, Tennessee on April 28. The total driving distance is estimated at 280 miles (450 kilometers in metric).
There's also talk of a higher-revving engine, although it's not clear whether the yardstick is the F140 GA of the 812 Superfast or the F140 HB of the 812 Competizione. As a brief refresher, the HB can handle 500 more revolutions per minute than the GA, topping a sonorous 9,000 revolutions per minute.
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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