Have you ever felt the sweet sting of a freshly par-boiled punch to the face?

I'll spank you hard.

You know what? You can go gently fuck yourself in the upstairs bathroom with the plunger handle. Make sure it gets wayyyyy up all the way in there. Oh, and when your rectum develops small rips and tears in it, from doing this every night, make sure it spells out F70 on the floor, because that would, in all…

608, with a 3.0 V8? That doesn't work under this naming scheme.

Except neither of those names have any relevance to Ferrari naming history, and the displacement-per-cylinder naming convention (250, 275, 365, 400, 456, 488) goes back almost to the start of the company, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

1. Well, it would actually be a 398 by that naming standard, since it's a 3.9L V8.

488 is still displacement numbering. Same naming convention they used in the 1960's.

Nope. They are using the same naming scheme they've used on-and-off since the 1960's: the displacement of one cylinder. Same as the 250 GTO, 365 Daytona, etc.

Are you saying a 3.8L turbo "burns waaaaay more fuel" than a 4.5 NA engine at high revs? This comes as a surprise to me...

If you poked around on Google a little bit, before writing such a long-winded comment, you'd find out that 488 follows the naming scheme Ferrari used in the 1960's: the displacement of one cylinder. Or are you going to trash the 365 Daytona and its ilk for having stupid names?

Ha! We have the exact opposite opinion. I find the F430 an overwrought, over-scooped aesthetic nightmare, and this design far more balanced and pleasing.

3.9/8=488

I think they are going for the old nomenclature, where they use the volumetric capacity of each cylinder.

They picked 488 because 488 cc/cylinder.

As posted before, it displaces 488 cc per cylinder, and this naming convention goes back many, many decades. So, yeah.

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thank you for finally explaining what those numbers meant , ive been waiting for someone to explain them

Who the hell knows.

It's the cc of one cylinder. 488 x 8.

They didn't call it the F70 so I'm going to count this as a small victory.