FERRARI: F8 Tributo

摘要

GREAT OR MERELY GOOD? HISTORY GETS TO DECIDE. REGULAR WHEELS READERS will know that there are typically three types of these Driven to Extinction pieces. There are those that lament a much-loved model that has departed too soon and then there are those that finally farewell a car that's hung around well past its sell-by date. Then there's the awkward ones into which the Ferrari F8 Tributo falls - that of the car that's replaced by something so manifestly superior that it can be hard to work up a great deal of heartfelt saudade for it. So unambiguously does the Ferrari 296 GTB now sit at the top of the supercar tree that the F8 Tributo is almost consigned to one of Maranello's historical footnotes, which fails to explain quite how good it was. And it was good. Not McLaren 720S good, but not far off, which in the overall scheme of things is pretty damn good. As well-received as it was, it isn't a patch on the new 296 GTB and it enjoyed a mayfly-like existence, on sale for less than four years; much the same duration as its 488 GTB predecessor. Both were developments of the 458, a car that enjoyed a six-year build slot.