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The 488 GTB Moves Ferrari’s Mid-Engine V8 Line into the Turbo Era

2015

Ferrari introduced the 488 GTB in 2015 with a 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8 producing 670 CV, replacing the naturally aspirated 458 Italia in the core mid-engine V8 berlinetta line.

Ank Kumar — Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0

Ferrari 488 GTB, which brought Ferrari’s modern turbo-V8 architecture to the core mid-engined berlinetta line in 2015. · Ank Kumar — Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0

Automotive significance

The 488 GTB established turbocharging at the heart of Ferrari’s mid-engine V8 road-car range rather than only in a GT model. It was an extensive evolution of the 458 architecture, not a completely unrelated clean-sheet platform, while its engine belonged to the modern turbo family introduced with the California T. Project Apex avoids presenting the 488 as Ferrari’s first turbocharged mid-engine car: the GTO and F40 had already used twin-turbo mid-engine V8 layouts decades earlier.

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