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Ferrari F8 Tributo Gets The Novitec Treatment, Loud As A Fighter Jet Taking Off

Sugar, spice, and everything nice! Those were the ingredients that Professor Utonium used to create the Powerpuff Girls, in the animated TV Series bearing the same name. Well, we all know the ingredients Ferrari used to create its new F8 Tributo, but it seems like the people at Novitec wanted to really spice things up, and bring its own touch to a vehicle that was already spectacular to begin with.
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While certain smaller tuning companies will go out of their way with flashy, sometimes non-sensical upgrades for certain vehicles, the people at Novitec have got a much smoother approach to things. There's a certain minimalism to their creations that, to the untrained observer, might even feel like fairly standard, factory delivered upgrades. But for those with a keen sense for all things automotive, every single small detail on the car will be real eye-candy.

Novitec already offers several packages and individual upgrades for Ferrari owners, aimed at models like the 360, the 430, the 599, the F12, the 458, the 488, the 812, and the list doesn't end here. The German tuner has even developed some parts for the Monza SP1/SP2, and it's currently working on upgrades for the SF90 Stradale and the Roma. And, to celebrate the start of 2021, they custom car specialists just announced their Novitec package for the F8 Tributo.

The F8 Tributo will set you back anywhere in between $300,000 to $400,000 in stock guise. While it's already a formidable machine to begin with, no petrolhead will be able to shun away the thought of fiddling around with it and turning the heat up to 11. But going that way in a Ferrari is not going to be cheap. Official pricing for F8 Tributo upgrades has not been released yet, but the wheels alone are rated at around $10,000.

Novitec Ferrari F8 Tributo
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Then there's all the carbon fiber to account for. There's carbon fiber on the front lip, at the bottom of the windshield, on the mirrors, the side skirts, the door handles, the rear wing, the rearview camera. Carbon fiber everything! And that does not come cheap. But then again, if you've already spent around $400,000 for it, you might as well up the ante to half a million dollars and make it even more unique than it already was.

The F8 Tributo comes with a healthy dose of 710 horsepower from the factory, thanks to a twin-turbocharged, 3.9-liter V8 unit, part of the Ferrari F154 family, initially launched in 2013. But Novitec figures that a Stage 2 Performance Package will fit right in, and now you can enjoy 800 horsepower and close to 664 lb-ft (900 Nm) of torque. Sure, a new exhaust system was also in order, and thank God they've used a valve system on it.

We say that because this thing will hit a whopping 123 dB under heavy throttle input, which is just about as noisy as an airplane taking off right next to you. To put that in perspective, the new generation of V6 engines used in Formula 1 have an output of around 128 dB! Overall, the reviewer, Bijon de Kock, looks extremely excited and happy to be driving the car, which seems to be bringing out the inner child in him.

The video is part of the Supercar Diaries series Novitec has launched last year, and brings a good mix of driving and static presentations of the vehicle. With the tires not getting enough heat and with some moisture still left on the tarmac, the car does slide around quite often, even without aggressive throttle input, and we're left craving to see how it would actually perform around a racetrack.

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About the author: Dragos Chitulescu
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The things Dragos enjoys the most in life are, in no particular order: cars, motorcycles, diecast cars, and drifting. He's seen (and driven) many vehicles since he started his writing career back in 2009, but his garage currently houses a 1991 Mazda RX-7 FC3S Turbo II and a 1999 Suzuki SV650-S.
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