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A 640 cv V8, an active wing and physical controls restored to the steering wheel: Ferrari’s successor to the Roma makes its case by touch.
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The most radical thing about the new Ferrari is a button you can feel.
The Amalfi, revealed in July 2025, replaces the Roma as the house’s front-engined coupé. It keeps the long bonnet, the 2+ cabin and the idea of a Ferrari that can be used every day. What it changes is the relationship between the driver and the car: a sharper face, more power, an active wing, and the return of physical controls to a steering wheel that had become a sheet of glass.
Ferrari’s Centro Stile, under Flavio Manzoni, reworked the front around a single dark band that joins the headlamps, with the intake set low beneath it. The Roma’s perforated grille is gone. The surfaces are tauter, the rear lamps horizontal, and the proportions still those of a grand touring coupé: 4,660 mm long, 1,974 mm wide, 1,301 mm high.
The name is a choice of atmosphere rather than a statement of purpose. The Amalfi Coast suggests a road taken slowly by choice, and quickly when it opens up.
The steering wheel is where the argument is made. Physical buttons replace the haptic pads of recent models, with an aluminium start button on the left spoke and the driver-assistance and display controls on the right. The central tunnel is milled from a solid block of anodised aluminium and carries the gear selector, the key slot and the charging pad.
The screens remain, in a clearer hierarchy: a 15.6-inch instrument display, a 10.25-inch central touchscreen and an optional 8.8-inch display for the passenger. What the driver needs at speed is under the thumb. What can wait is on the glass.
A Ferrari is driven with the eyes on the road. The Amalfi puts the controls back where the fingers can find them.
The 3.9-litre twin-turbocharged V8 produces 640 cv at 7,500 rpm and 760 Nm between 3,000 and 5,750 rpm, through an eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox. Ferrari quotes 0 to 100 km/h in 3.3 seconds, 0 to 200 km/h in 9.0 seconds and a top speed above 320 km/h. With lightweight options the dry weight is 1,470 kg.
An active rear wing with three positions sits flush in the bodywork until it is needed. In its high-downforce setting it adds 110 kg at 250 km/h. Brake-by-wire, adapted from the 296 GTB and 12Cilindri, works with an updated ABS Evo system to keep the car composed under heavy braking.
The coupé was followed in March 2026 by the Amalfi Spider, which carries the same front-engined formula into open air.
Ferrari could have answered the Roma’s critics with more power alone. It answered with a button. The Amalfi is quicker than the car it replaces, but its real gift is a cabin in which the driver no longer has to look down to find what the hand already knows.
| Engine | 3,855 cc twin-turbo V8, front mid-mounted |
| Power | 640 cv (471 kW) at 7,500 rpm |
| Torque | 760 Nm, 3,000 to 5,750 rpm |
| Transmission | 8-speed dual-clutch, rear-wheel drive |
| 0 to 100 km/h | 3.3 s |
| 0 to 200 km/h | 9.0 s |
| Top speed | Over 320 km/h |
| Dry weight | 1,470 kg (with lightweight options) |
| Downforce | 110 kg at 250 km/h (rear wing, high setting) |
| Length x width x height | 4,660 x 1,974 x 1,301 mm |
Details and further reading: Ferrari Amalfi
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GABRIEL SILVEIRADO, FOR WAYFARER.
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