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Hybrid Ferrari F80 Hypercar Mule Is a LaFerrari With Three Exhausts

Ferrari celebrated its 81st birthday as a carmaker in September of last year, meaning that the traditional way of launching a hypercar for each decade of its existence has suffered a change.
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What started with the 288 GTO and continued with the F40, F50, Enzo, and the LaFerrari will continue next year, though, with a yet-to-be officially announced hybrid hypercar that has just started public testing.

Caught on the roads of Germany, of all places, an odd-looking Ferrari mule with a faux three-exhaust setup based on the LaFerrari was recently spotted by spy photographers, and there are more questions than answers regarding what’s hiding underneath it.

As of 2021, the LaFerrari still remains the final Maranello product with a mid-engine V12 layout, but that doesn’t mean it will be the last.

Its successor will use the lessons learned from the FXX-K and FXX-K Evo track monster projects and apply them to the fastest and most powerful road-going Ferrari in history, which will have well over 1,000 horsepower from a greener package compared to its predecessors.

Unofficially known as the F80, for eight decades of four-wheeled dreams coming out of Maranello, the new hypercar is expected to feature the most powerful iteration of the F140 V12 engine, paired with both a KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) and at least two other electric motors.

While the FXX-K had an output of 860 horsepower just from the naturally aspirated V12, the new Ferrari Magnum Opus should up that figure to around 900 horsepower, supplemented by a 190-horsepower KERS system and at least another 220 horsepower from two electric motors.

In other words, we are looking at an all-wheel-drive hypercar with a combined output of at least 1,200 horsepower and torque vectoring on all wheels.

Some of the model's technology will also be found in Ferrari’s Le Mans Hypercar project for 2023, which will coincide with first deliveries for the road car, cementing the carmaker’s transition into a hybrid future.
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About the author: Alex Oagana
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Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project.
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