The new Ferrari SC40 is a one‑off hypercar that pays homage to F40
Published on Oct 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Oct 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
This is the new Ferrari SC40, a modern-day tribute to the Ferrari F40.
We’ve been waiting on a modernized version of the F40 for a long time, and now it’s finally here.
And it’s not electric.
Unfortunately, there’s also some bad news.
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The Ferrari SC40 is a one-off that took two years to create
Everyone’s been asking for a modern-day Ferrari F40, including Lewis Hamilton, by the way, and so the Italian automaker was happy to oblige.
Sort of.
In truth, this is simply a one-off project that took two years to create, and it was designed specifically for a single client as part of the company’s Special Projects program.
This means there won’t be another one.
There’s more bad news.
This new SC40 is indeed a tribute to the F40, mostly because it’s designed to look like an F40 for the 2020s, but it’s built on the 296 GTB’s architecture, which means it doesn’t have a V8.
Instead, it uses the same chassis and the same 819-horsepower twin-turbo V6 powertrain as the 296.
The interior is slightly more barren and minimalistic when you compare it to that of the 296 GTB, but still a million miles away from the cabin in the F40.
Then again, there are legal and safety elements that Ferrari has to consider.
The F40 didn’t even have airbags.
Possibly the most beloved Ferrari ever made
If you ask 100 collectors to name the best Ferrari ever made, 99 of them will probably say ‘the F40’.
There are probably three reasons for that.
First, the F40 looks great.
It has a recognizable shape that makes it a great bedroom poster, which is what supercars are about (among other things).
Second, a lot of collectors believe the F40 was the last purely analog Ferrari, because the F50 that succeeded it was already a bit more digital and modern.
And the third reason, perhaps the most important of all, is that this was the last Ferrari commissioned and greenlit directly by Enzo Ferrari himself.
