With the vaguely retro-inspired Ferrari F80 hitting the scene in late 2025, people all across the internet where quick to draw comparisons to the old turbo-ferraris of yore. Because, if you look at its wedgy profile and squint, a vague similarity would indeed be seen. So, is the F80 the true successor to the F40?

Nay(!), argues the layman, it is but a step in the Ferrari Hypercar Linage. The successor to the F40 is the F50, logically!

But alas, the journalists of the time would disagree, being underwhelmed by its formula 1 derived naturally aspirated v12 and gated manual. Its too ugly, its too slow.

So once again, we dawn our investigative caps, and look past the 1990’s. AHA! Cries the casual, it must then be the Ferrari Enzo! For sure this lunatic of a car must be worthy. But alas, an automatic car can not be uttered in the same sentence as the all mighty ones. And like the F50 before and the LaFerrari after, these cars all have screaming naturally aspirated v12s! What good are those in the presence of the turbocharged eldritch gods?

And so, we spiral. Could it be the 488? Nay, for this is but a series production car.

On the verge of ending it all, hope lost and shotgun loaded, a shimmer of hope from a drug induced fever dream breaches the clutches of darkness. An apparition of red and yellow beams its rays of hope into my soul. The answer. The first, only, and true successor to the Ferrari F40. A rebel, a trend setter, and the first modern turbocharged Ferrari.

That’s just it.

The California T.