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About This Car
Same 819 hp V12, roof gone, and a 2.95-second sprint that costs you 0.05 seconds and nothing else
Sixty kilograms. That's the weight of a folding hardtop and some extra sill bracing, and it's the only thing standing between this car and its fixed-roof sibling. Ferrari's engineers clearly weren't losing sleep over it: 0-100 km/h lands at 2.95 seconds, a tenth of a blink slower than the Coupe, and the top speed doesn't move at all. 340 km/h, roof up or down.
Drop the roof and the 6.5-litre naturally-aspirated V12 stops being muffled by anything. Nine and a half thousand RPM, unfiltered, the induction howl arriving in your ear before the exhaust note even catches up. Ferrari tuned the aero around the cabin specifically so you can hold 130 km/h with the top down and still hear yourself think, which means there's nothing left between you and 819 horsepower except your own nerve.
This isn't a limited-run afterthought bolted onto the end of a model cycle. Where past Ferrari V12 convertibles made you wait years, or made you earn an invitation, the 12 Cilindri Spider arrived alongside the Coupe from day one. Two seats, an eight-speed dual-clutch that shifts with the same ruthless speed regardless of what's over your head, and a chassis that Ferrari claims gained rigidity rather than lost it.
The V12 doesn't need a roof to make its case. Taking it away just means you stop missing anything.