Ferrari’s famous V12 engine continues to live on in the new 12Cilindri. James Baggott has been behind the wheel to see what it’s like.

The new £336,000 Ferrari 12Cilindri has been named to celebrate the naturally aspirated V12. After all, a dozen cylinders arranged in a V is both at the heart of this car and of Ferrari the company. However,

Ferraris are typically red. But for the launch of the new 12Cilindri—pronounced Doh-DEH-chi Chi-LIN-dri —the prancing horse brand elected to slather its cars in a stunning, tawny golden-metallic they call Giallo MonteCarlo.

On a track and country roads in Luxembourg, the 812 Superfast’s successor proved a potent yet polished homage to the marque’s heritage.

It is so tempting to look at the 12Cilindri as essentially a rebodied Superfast, itself a heavily revised F12. For a start, when it comes to facelifting a facelift Ferrari has previous, and recently; was the F8 not a re-fettled 488 GTB, itself a cosmetically tweaked, twin turbo development of the 458? It was.

The 2025 Ferrari 12Cilindri replaces the 812 as the brand's new GT. The 12Cilindri has a classic front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, two-seat layout, and as its name implies, a V-12 engine under the long hood. The Ferrari 12Cilindri seats just two. The dual-cowl dashboard is a classic design.

Versus its 788 hp predecessor in the 812 Superfast, the engine spins up 31 more horses and gets titanium connecting rods that are 40 percent lighter, a lightened crankshaft and pistons, and valve-train components derived directly from Ferrari’s F1 engines,

Yeah, the 2025 Ferrari 12 Cilindri is awful fast in a straight line. The speed is hardly surprising, perhaps, given the new 12 Cilindri packs the most powerful V-12 ever installed in a factory-built front-engine Ferrari,

And no Ferrari has made me feel more like a dad than the 12Cilindri I just drove in, of all places, the European grand duchy of Luxembourg. Officially the exterior paint is Giallo