Nostalgia Versus the Inevitable

📍 ‘It’s not an homage to the past — it’s the past checking its reflection in the future.’

When Ferrari reclaims a name like Testarossa, it isn’t being shy. It’s a full-throttle declaration of intent.

That name defined Ferrari for a generation — the strakes, the width, the bedroom-wall audacity.

In 2025, it’s back to bridge combustion nostalgia and electric inevitability.

The question is simple: can this Testarossa live up to the ghost of its own legend?

Read on — the engine note may be digital, but the drama isn’t.

◼︎ The original Testarossa was excess made beautiful — a 1980s symphony of flat-twelve fury and Miami Vice hair gel. Its very name meant power, style, and unashamed theatre.

◼︎ It is both audacious and deliberate to revive it now, in an age of EV humility and carbon quotas.

◼︎ The new 849 Testarossa, replacing the SF90 Stradale, is Ferrari’s loudest whisper yet.

◼︎ Under its glass lid isn’t a flat-twelve but a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 coupled with three electric motors. The result?

• 1,000+ horsepower,

• 0–62 mph in just over two seconds,

• 400 kg of downforce at motorway speeds,

• And a price tag north of €460,000 before His Majesty’s Revenue has its say.

◼︎ Its design flirts with nostalgia — visor front, wide haunches, twin-tail rear — yet the proportions seem to negotiate between homage and innovation.

◼︎ A car in conversation with its ancestors.

◼︎ Ferrari insists hybridisation isn’t compliance but performance art. Still, this may be the last Ferrari of its kind, a bridge to the all-electric future.

◼︎ Like the original, it’s divisive, dramatic, and utterly compelling.

◼︎ The queue, predictably, is already long — proof that some legends never downshift quietly.

📍 ‘Ferrari didn’t design a car; it designed a dilemma — nostalgia versus the inevitable.’