Sounds like Ferrari’s first electric car will arrive in October...

Sounds like Ferrari’s first electric car will be revealed on 9 October, according to a cryptic line from its big boss Benedetto Vigna.

Speaking about how well the company performed in 2024 versus 2023 – more on that below – he said: “The will to progress that has always characterised Ferrari has led to innovation in our infrastructure, with the inauguration of the e-building.

“In our products, best highlighted by the new supercar, the Ferrari F80; and in R&D, with the new E-Cells Lab that will further strengthen our electrochemical knowledge to prepare us for the future.

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“And we will reveal more of our future on 9 October at our Capital Markets Day,” he added. ‘Our future’. Unless Ferrari is secretly planning on building rosso space rockets (imagine!), that can only mean its new EV – a car we highly suspect will lean into the form of an SUV.

No prizes for guessing where it’ll be built. Last year TopGear.com witnessed the launch of the new ‘e-building’ Vigna noted above: a vast new expanse designed by Mario Cucinella and sited north of the Ferrari campus in Maranello occupying some 42,500mq.

Once the new EV’s been revealed in October, it’ll start rolling out of the e-building in 2026. At the launch, chairman John Elkann noted how “technology and innovation have always been in our DNA”, and that “electric engines are no different – it is not a new technology to us”.

Along with the e-building, Ferrari’s invested in that aforementioned E-Cells Lab at the University of Bologna to better research electric drivetrains and high-voltage batteries to better ensure the EV drives like a Ferrari should.

And what about how a Ferrari should sound? Vigna said last year: “When you buy a Ferrari there is much more than sound. A gearbox change. Braking. There is linear and lateral acceleration. All of them you have to blend in the right way.

“Last but not least, electric engines are not silent. Electric motors are not silent.”

Aston recently told TopGear.com that its new electric car could build vibrations into the body to simulate the ‘feel’ of a V12 – reckon Ferrari should do the same for its incoming e-SUV?

Of course, Ferrari already makes a brilliant, very combustion-engined SUV called the Purosangue, which, incidentally, was one of the cars responsible for Ferrari’s increased deliveries last year, along with the gorgeous Roma Spider and 296 GTS.

Ferrari shifted 0.7 per cent more cars in 2024 than it did in 2023. That’s a total of 13,752 shiny new prancing horses roaming about the world.

Specifically, 141 more in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 192 more in the Americas, and 84 more in the rest of APAC. China, Hong Kong and Taiwan were down a bit.

Speaking about these shiny new Ferraris littered across the world, and Maranello’s 11.8 per cent increase in revenue and 16.7 per cent increase in profit versus 2023, Vigna said: “Last year’s results reflect a great teamwork that involved all our Company’s souls. This teamwork was also visible in a very competitive racing season.”

Ah yes, racing. A certain Lewis Hamilton is now on board. Could be quite the year for this small, Italian car company. More as we get it.