What has 986 electrified horsepower, can operate in front-wheel-drive mode alone and can drop its retractable hard top in less than 14 seconds? Some kind of ridiculously ludicrous Tesla? Has Audi gone mad with electrification? Did Lambo sneak the Asterion into production when I wasn’t looking?

‘Nope’ to all of the above — the car in question is the new Spider version of the Ferrari SF90, the most beastly of Maranello’s road-rockets ever.

Combine a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 (769 horsepower) and three electric motors (which combine for 217 more) and a 7.9-kilowatt-hour battery and you have a super(-duper) car with 986 horses that can zoom to 100 kilometres an hour in just 2.5 seconds, yet motor some 25 kilometres in completely Greta-Thunberg-compliant emissions-free motoring.

Now, we have seen this electrification stuff before from the prancing horse. Ferrari’s LaFerrari – I’ve always enjoyed a ponderous alliteration, don’t you? – combined a massive 6.3 litres of high-revving V12 with a single electric motor. However, unlike the more sophisticated SF90, the LaFerrari had just 949 hp and was but a mild hybrid, the electric motor unable to power the car forward on its own.

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