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  • welcome Internet to Mayfair, which, if you're a fan of Monopoly, you'll know, is the really, really, really, really quite posh part of London.

  • The perfect place, then for a Ferrari dealership.

  • Bill I this one shiny new H r own show room and we're here because behind that window is something really quite exciting.

  • Guess what it is yet?

  • In fact, this dealership was only opened last night with none other than Charles Leclerc cutting the ribbon, but they've managed to clear away the champagne glasses and £50 notes to accommodate us.

  • Taking a look around the SF 90 straight Darling, don't forget.

  • This is the first time an SF Monty has ever been seen in public.

  • It's revealed a few weeks ago it was a closed event with no cameras allowed.

  • This is what we've come to see.

  • The brand new Ferrari s F 90 straddling the latest greatest mid engined V eight Ferrari supercar.

  • But this one is a hybrid.

  • The first ever ceilings production hybrid V eight, mid engine supercar from Ferrari ever.

  • And get this it's got 1000 or 986 brake horsepower in old money, which is quite a lot Isn't it the same man of power roughly as you got with the Laferrari, the campy one Porsche 9 18 spider?

  • So it's actually more of a hyper car than a super car.

  • But let's get into the techie stuff later.

  • First of all, let's have a good old nose around there.

  • Have a look at how this thing has been stalled because the first thing I'll say is compared to the pictures.

  • It's a lot more dramatic in person.

  • It's lowered its why that it's got that incredible presence that will for always have the other trick.

  • But it pulls off a Ferrari does very well is removing pieces of the body work in order to make the aerodynamics work rather than sticking on spoilers with back splitters at the front, it makes the whole thing more sculptural come around the side.

  • Look at it in profile.

  • A couple of things to notice.

  • The first is that the cabin is slightly further food.

  • Then you normally get with the mid engine Ferraris overhangs slightly shorter, the rear end the tail slightly higher.

  • That's all in the name of a row, of course.

  • Speaking of which, we can work our way down the car.

  • Yes, duct version of the stock will be first on Formula One, but also featured on the 48 piece toe.

  • And now the FAA tribute toe.

  • Basically, air comes in here, up here along the bonnet and pushes the front of the car down into the road.

  • The headlights look pretty cool down, but there was also an intake slit that feeds cool air into the breaks.

  • Everything has a function come along the side.

  • There's more to these huge intakes here for the cooling system, but also for the engine around the back, a pretty trick rear spoiler.

  • So as you can see, it's fixed in normal operation.

  • The air flows under here on out here, but when you're breaking or in corners, or you want a little bit of extra downforce, a separate section here tilts on their schools.

  • The airflow bit like girly flat adds the extra downforce.

  • I'm told there's 380 kilograms of downforce at 155 miles an hour.

  • When you consider this car weighs about 1650 kilograms, that's a pretty handy figure, for carbon looks is slippery inside.

  • Ferrari has gone all out, replacing randomly scattered buttons with screens, so the new instrument pod is a 16 inch piece of curved glass.

  • There's touch pads on the steering wheel and you get a head up display.

  • Order the A set of fear on a pact that saves 30 kilograms, Which, let's face it, everyone will, and you get carbon fiber door panels as well as titanium springs on track focused tires.

  • All right, so here we are inside the SF 90 straddles interior.

  • I have to say it is quite odd to not be faced with the massive, confusing buttons like you normally get inside a Ferrari.

  • It's all super sleek, super clean.

  • Oh, touchscreens, basically including the engine start stop button right here in the middle.

  • You still got the quirky indicators up here in the middle of the wheel, Um, but yeah, cleaner, sleeker.

  • Whether it all works or not, we'll have to find out when we actually drive it.

  • But by far the coolest bit about the SF nineties, interior is down here.

  • It's the gear selector, which has been designed to look like a miniature version of the old open Gate Click Clack manual from Ferraris of old, and that's just brilliant driving modes.

  • We should talk about those.

  • Yes, you got your man Latino switch here on the wheel.

  • There's four Moz, the first of which is E drive on that you can do 15 miles on electric power alone, at which point this is a front wheel drive Ferrari Sacrilege.

  • I know the next one is a hybrid mode that turns the engine on and off to try and balance performance on economy.

  • The next one is a performance mode that keeps the engine on, but make sure the battery doesn't deplete beyond a certain level.

  • And finally, we've got qualify mode, which basically is your bulls out one lap maximum performance.

  • Given everything.

  • Forget the battery charge.

  • We want maximum performance.

  • The last thing to mention is your feet, your feet set 15 millimeters higher than they do in a normal Ferrari.

  • Something to do with clever underbody Aargh that I don't really understand.

  • But the point is, you're a bit more climbed.

  • Your bit more laid back, bit more like a race car just lets you know you're in something very seriously because you are twin.

  • Turbo V.

  • A is a development of the piece on F A Tribute Toes engine board out four liters and producing 780 horsepower.

  • Rest comes from three electric motors, one on the crank and two on the front axle.

  • One controlling twill for full torque.

  • Vectoring Magic North of 62 takes 2.5 seconds, not 124 6.7.

  • That's only 2/10 behind The began to share on the top.

  • Speed is 212 miles an hour on it will at Fiorano, faster than any road legal Ferrari before it in one minute 19.

  • Interesting, isn't it?

  • That while the Laferrari was resolutely rear wheel drive and definitely didn't have an electric only mode, this layout is a lot more like Report 9 18 Spyder.

  • Now the porters kind of seen as the Donkey overcomplicated, one of the Holy Hypercar Trinity.

  • But Ferrari appears to have come around to study God's way of thinking that some TV range and four wheel drive is probably the way to go.

  • And then we get to the price somewhere around 400 grand, we're told.

  • Now I know it's ridiculous to say this, but when you consider performances in the ballpark of Cone XX AMG ones and the Aston Martin Valhalla, all multi £1,000,000 unobtainable.

  • It's actually there.

  • I say it, Robert.

  • Good value.

  • Get a bit of air, I think.

  • Maybe talk about something that Chris Harris mentioned the other day.

  • I was talking about Ferraris and specifically the power output at this car here, and he called it a rabbit.

  • Hole off of nonsense might know what he's talking about.

  • When I drove the 48 Peaster, I loved it.

  • It's rampant.

  • It's rapid acceleration.

  • Wants to go sideways everywhere, But I love it because it's exciting, any speeds and in all sorts of situations.

  • But I didn't think you know what that car needs another 290 horsepower, but that's what this thing has his thing.

  • It's also got forward drive so it won't be quite as keen to kick sideways.

  • Traction off the line is gonna be absolutely immense.

  • It's gonna be really hard for Ferrari to integrate the engine with those motors and get the whole thing working in harmony.

  • But they are the masters of electronics, so there are saying this could be a car.

  • It's easy to drive.

  • I can't believe I just said that anywhere.

welcome Internet to Mayfair, which, if you're a fan of Monopoly, you'll know, is the really, really, really, really quite posh part of London.

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