Ferrari’s ballistic SF90 Stradale earned kudos for its pace and potency when it launched in 2019, but the prancing horse’s series-production spearhead was never truly warmed to by the motoring press or Ferraristi in general. For all its fury and rapidity, it failed to excite and engage in the way that many of its Maranello stablemates did.
Ferrari has aimed to remedy all the SF90’s shortcomings with its 849 Testarossa successor, which reprises one of the brand’s hallowed nameplates – aficionados will remember the famous, strake-laden 1980s Testarossa. As for the newcomer’s 849 prefix, it reflects the car’s engine specs (eight cylinders of 499cc each).
Even though the 849 Testarossa carries over most of its SF90 predecessor’s core hardware, Ferrari’s engineers and design department have reworked the recipe so comprehensively that, in essence, the debutant is an all-new car – and hence the complete
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