This new two-seat, front-engine, 12-cylinder, F12 Berlinetta is Ferrari's "quickest, most powerful and most dynamic street car to date", says Dan Neil in The Wall Street Journal. It delivers 740 horsepower, a top speed of 212mph, and accelerates from zero to 124 mph in 8.5 seconds, "which is about as quick as an all-wheel-drive Bugatti Veyron". And, "with its carbon-ceramic brakes glowing like the hinges of hell, the F12 will decelerate from 124 mph to zero in 426 feet".
The engine, as Ferrari customers demand, is a "braying, bawling, soaring, roaring, bonfire-of-currency sound it will bring a tear to your eye". It is "mighty" then, yet still "very much a road car", with "a suavely modern, leather-to-the-hilt interior design", splendid seats, light steering and a "supremely civilised, well-tempered" driving manner. It's "a velvet nuke, this car. Again Ferrari has transcended the limits of what seemed possible in a road-going GT".
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