(Bloomberg) -- Ferrari NV has impeccable timing with its new 12Cilindri.

The V12 is the heart of Ferrari,” said company founder Enzo as he talked of the earliest cars with their crackling, fire-spitting exhausts, and their dancing pistons as small as egg cups. Front-engined V12 grand tourers were what the company sold to its gentlemen drivers: “You buy the engine,

Versus its 788 hp predecessor in the 812 Superfast, the engine spins up 31 more horses and gets titanium connecting rods that are 40 percent lighter, a lightened crankshaft and pistons, and valve-train components derived directly from Ferrari’s F1 engines,

The 2025 Ferrari 12Cilindri features extreme cab-rearward proportions. The 2025 Ferrari 12Cilindri's similarity to the 365GTB/4 Daytona is clear. Ferrari quotes a zero-to-62-mph time of 2.9 seconds. Like the 812, the 12Cilindri has rear-axle steering, or Virtual Short Wheelbase in Ferrari-speak.

It is so tempting to look at the 12Cilindri as essentially a rebodied Superfast, itself a heavily revised F12. For a start, when it comes to facelifting a facelift Ferrari has previous, and recently; was the F8 not a re-fettled 488 GTB, itself a cosmetically tweaked, twin turbo development of the 458? It was.

There's a new V12 Ferrari in town and it's capable of doing over 340km/h. So, what's it like to drive in the wet? We wanted to find out.

And no Ferrari has made me feel more like a dad than the 12Cilindri I just drove in, of all places, the European grand duchy of Luxembourg. Officially the exterior paint is Giallo Montecarlo, and the seats are Verde Venaria. But if you referred to them as ...

First Drive | Driving.Ca #Ferrari12Cilindri #supercar #carreview Do I know you? Meeting the 2025 Ferrari 12Cilindri for the first time, it’s clear the historic Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona — perhaps blended with some "Star Wars" and science fiction in the rear — was the inspiration for this car.