This is the first time in history that I am struggling to understand the name! 4 (four liter) check (but its really 3.9) 8 (eight cylinder) check 8 (eight cylinder...incase you forgot and you are getting older)? Is Ferraris marketing getting bad too? Maybe they named it after a ride at their theme park?
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This as already been discussed to death in the other thread. For this car, they've simply gone back to the original naming convention (single cylinder displacement) used on the 125, 159, 166, 195, 212, 250, 340, 342, 375, 500, 625, 735, 750, 857, 860, 275, 330, 365, 456, etc.
Ohhhh....sorry. I get confused with their marketing. On one hand they say the car traces its lineage to the 308. They also say the side vents are like the 308. I grew up on the 308 and know how they named most of their cars since then. (I didn't pay any attention to the 456) I sincerely asked the question here because I honestly did not know. I suppose it's Ferraris way to educate me! At least they didn't name it a Testarossa GTB because the heads are red. Cali T for one car, 3.9T for the other, no? I suppose they really wanted to down play the addition of the turbos.
+1 They should have stuck with single cylinder displacement + body configuration for V12 cars (365 GTC, 365 GTS, 365 GT 2+2, etc) and displacement/# of cylinders + body configuration for V8 (308 GT4, 308 GTB, 308 GTS, etc). "Super" cars should have followed the F40, F50 tradition, even if not introduced on the exact anniversary. To name a car the "Ferrari Enzo Ferrari" or the "Ferrari LaFerrari" is beyond absurd. And the rehashing of historic model names like Mondial, GTO, California, and Testa Rossa (even if mashed together into "Testarossa") is shameful and utterly unoriginal.
However they wish to spin it, I think this is the likely truth. Thankfully, it's not so nonsensical as BMW's naming conventions. Their marketing people are deliberately misleading customers (insiders have repeatedly said they want people to think their 328's, 335's or 550's are "2.8L", "3.5L", or "5.0L" engines).
