Return of the gated shifter Light steering, lovely balance It’s not a mechanical manual Shift protection dilutes reality Probably impossible to buy! Ferrari has finally brought back the iconic gated manual gearbox. Except it hasn’t – not quite. The 12Cilindri Manuale is…
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This rewired twin-clutch transmission does an almost perfect impression of a manual. Ferrari was at the forefront of trying to banish the manual transmission, which is why it is both ironic and fitting that the Italian supercar maker is now…
It may use a computer to change gears, but the 12Cilindri Manuale delivers the engagement and fun of a traditional stick shift. I’m going to stall it, I thought. Or if not that, will it be an absolute handful on the…
So when Ferrari announced a car called the 12Cilindri Manuale, the internet understandably became rather excited. On paper, that sounds suspiciously like simulation. Ferrari is adamant that it is not. Ferrari is not first through this particular door. Koenigsegg’s CC850 already pairs…
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This is the 12 Cilindri Manuale, Ferrari’s first three-pedal, manual-shifter car in about 15 years… only it’s not an actual manual. Instead it features a cleverly manual‑ised version of the regular model’s DCT (dual-clutch transmission). There’s a classic-look Ferrari open-gate shifter…
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The 12Cilindri is Ferrari's defiant answer to the age of downsizing: a front-mounted, naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V12 with no turbochargers and no hybrid assistance, making about 820 horsepower and revving to 9,500 rpm. Revealed in 2024 as the successor to the 812 Superfast, it takes its name from the Italian for twelve cylinders, and its long hood and futuristic nose, with a dark band wrapping around the headlights, deliberately echo the 365 GTB/4 Daytona of the late 1960s.
It belongs to a bloodline that includes the 275 GTB, the Daytona, the 550 and 575 Maranello, the 599 and the F12 and 812, Ferrari's tradition of fast, front-engined grand tourers with twelve cylinders under the hood. A Spider with a folding hard top arrived alongside the coupe. Reviewers have marveled at the engine's response and soundtrack and at a chassis that makes a big car feel agile, while some have found the rear styling and the price of admission harder to love.
Ferrari has since added the 12Cilindri Manuale, a limited series that brings a manual gearbox and a third pedal back to a Ferrari flagship, to the delight of enthusiasts who had mourned the gated shifter. In a class where rivals such as the Lamborghini Revuelto and Aston Martin Vanquish have turned to hybrid assistance or turbocharging, the 12Cilindri stands as a monument to the old way of doing things, and Ferrari has signaled that it intends to keep building V12s for as long as regulations allow.
News about the 12Cilindri covers first drives of the coupe, Spider and Manuale, pricing and allocation in different markets, tuner creations, recalls and comparisons with the hybrid hypercars above it. It is also a running story about the survival of the naturally aspirated V12 itself, an engine type that regulators have squeezed hard and that collectors already treat as an endangered species worth preserving. For now, Ferrari remains one of the very few places where a new one can still be ordered.
Ferrari's front-engined V12 flagship, heir to the Daytona and 812, with a 9,500-rpm 6.5-liter engine, an open Spider and a stick-shift Manuale.
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