The best cars from Ferrari Finali Mondiali 2023

Last weekend, Ferrari celebrated its historic motorsport heritage at Finali Mondiali 2023.

Customers, Ferrari aficionados (affectionately known as the Tifosi), and employees alike gathered in Tuscany to watch, drive and listen to some of the fastest, loudest, most expensive and most beautiful machinery the world has seen.

Among the slew of Ferraris we’ve seen before, there are some that stand out from the crowd, whether it be because of their heritage, car park cachet, or simply because they’ve been specified in a weird way (to say the least).

So let’s take a look at the most interesting cars from Ferrari Finali Mondiali 2023.

Picked on for its unconventional design, this unsung hero of endurance racing was the first Ferrari to employ 'sharknose' styling in the name of aerodynamics. So successful was its design during testing and racing that it went on to inspire the modern-day F430.

The car pictured was owned by Ralph Lauren some years after it won the 12 hours of Sebring in both 1961 and 1962.

Comfortably the most expensive car in both this gallery and at Finali Mondiali, this Daytona is the third most expensive car ever sold, with a price of $70,000,000 (£57,620,150).

When it was new, buyers were hand-picked by Enzo Ferrari himself, and since then, the car has been repeatedly nominated as one of the best sports cars from the 1960s.

The 250 GTO was essentially a heavily modified version of the 250 GT Berlinetta SWB, using a 300bhp 3.0-litre V12, a lightweight aluminium body for agility, and an elegantly streamlined body to help it achieve a top speed, in 1962, of 170mph. Just 36 were manufactured between 1962 and 1964.

Named after the Mille Miglia, this particular car is chassis number 43, making it the oldest Ferrari in the UK. It's owned by Dudley and Sally Mason-Styrron, and was driven up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed by Dudley himself this year.

Just 47 of these streamlined, 2.0-litre V12 icons were made between 1948 and 1953, making it one of the world's rarest and most expensive cars. Normally, they fetch between €4,000,000 (£3,481,800) and €5,000,000 (£4,352,250) at auction.

Known to be one of the most fun and approachable Ferraris, the 360 appears, superficially, to be quite conventional. It's a two-seat, mid-engined, rear-wheel-drive sports car with a 400bhp V8 and a 0-62mph time that wouldn't worry a BMW M140i.

It is, however, one of the best-looking Ferraris to come out of the early noughties, with a smooth front end, headlights shaped according to an Formula 1 wind tunnel, and prominent beltlines to channel air into the intakes behind the doors. Its featureless body almost makes it timeless, especially in the specification seen above.

To top it all off, it has a six-speed manual gearbox, making it one of the last Ferraris of the 2000s to have a clutch pedal.

It's based on the Enzo and just 29 examples were produced during its model cycle in 2005, making it as rare as the succeeding 599XX. One car was kept aside for Michael Schumacher.

Unlike the 599XX, however, it uses a bigger 'F140' V12 engine, up from the 6.0 litres found in the original Enzo to 6.3 litres. Power is also increased from 651bhp in the standard car to 789bhp, and it uses an F1-inspired six-speed gearbox with a shift time of 100 milliseconds.

With prices starting from £1.2m when new, a 599XX customer had to be one very wealthy individual.

It can't be raced, it will never be driven on the road, and with only 29 produced, you're unlikely to ever see one in the flesh. If you do, though, you won't forget it in a hurry - chiefly because of the noise its V12 makes through titanium exhaust pipes.

With 720bhp and 505lb ft, it howls to a redline of 9000rpm and dispatches 62mph in less than 2.9sec, with a top speed (restricted by the short-ratio gears) of 196mph.

This essentially followed on from the LaFerrari-based FXX-K, with the Evo pack allowing it to produce 830kg of downforce at the car’s top speed - an improvement of 23% on the standard FXX and 75% over the LaFerrari. A total of 640kg of this is generated at 124mph – close to that of a GT3 championship car.

It also gets some wind-cheating tricks to help it cut through the air with barely a ripple. A fixed wing is fitted at the rear, which has been developed to work with the active rear spoiler, and there's also a central wing running up the middle of the car’s rear, as well as one at each rear corner of the car.

We can count the number of times we've seen a green Ferrari on gold alloys, and it equates to one.

This F430 Spider stood out thanks to its tan interior, a body in British racing green and alloys coloured like a piece of pawn shop jewellery. We'll let you decide on its physical prowess, but you can't doubt that it catches your eye in a car park draped mostly black, grey and red tones. 

This one was having a break in the pits, with brakes so hot its wheels had to be taken off. Powered by the 488’s twin-turbocharged 3.9-litre V8, the 488 GT Modificata is described as being “exclusively for use during track days and at Ferrari Club Competizione GT events'' and was offered only to drivers who had recently participated in Ferrari club track events.

Power comes from the standard 488's twin-turbo 3.9-litre V8, but it gets a boost from 659bhp to around 690bhp, while a carbonfibre clutch and tweaked transmission ratios allow it to harness that extra performance. 

This tastefully specified example of Ferrari's 211mph GT was one of several surprises in the Finali Mondiali car park.

When we reviewed it, we were hugely impressed by its docility and good manners at low revs, and the growls, howls and wails flying from its four exhausts as it worked its way to a near-9000rpm redline.

Its 6.5-litre V12 pushes out 789bhp and rockets it to 62mph in 2.9sec. If the owner of this open-top GTS car wants to try it, he/she better not have spent too much on a haircut.

The Competizione edition of the 812 Superfast features the most powerful combustion engine of any road car from Maranello, with an 819bhp 6.5-litre V12 screaming its way to a 9500rpm redline.

All 999 versions of the hard-top model sold within months of the order books opening, with prices starting from €499,000 (£430,000) in Italy, as did the 599 examples of the more exclusive Aperta, shown here, which was priced from €578,000 (£499,000).

We think the drop-top edition of one of Ferrari's most revered models, the 296, stands out from the crowd in this baby blue, known to the Tifosi as Azzuro Metalizzato. Black wheels make it a notable addition to this gallery, simply because you don't expect to see them on a £278,000 Ferrari.

Nonetheless, it's a sharp, fun-loving car with a breathtaking set of dynamic capabilities and, above all else, you can hear its fizzy 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 more clearly than ever.

Many specifications of Ferrari's first SUV are available, but a Purosangue in a custom colour bespoke from Ferrari has to be rare. Even its seats and brake calipers were upholstered to match the bodywork.

Beneath that paintwork, it's standard Purosangue – in other words, the most powerful SUV on sale. Its 715bhp 6.5-litre V12 pushes it to 62mph in just 3.3sec and to 124mph in 10.6sec. 

Ferrari promises the handling characteristics of "true sports car", so it has a near-perfect weight distribution, independent four-wheel steering and a highly advanced braking system, with a six-way chassis dynamic sensor.

Ferrari may have been exhibiting cars from its storied racing past, but this Vision Gran Turismo represents the future of the Italian brand.

Previewing how its next-generation road cars could look, this single-seat 1338bhp racing concept has been designed exclusively for the virtual gaming world and draws its reserves from a beefed-up version of the turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 engine used in the 296 GTB.

Aerodynamics play a huge part in its design, with two side channels that direct airflow around the cockpit and over the side pods, and a rear diffuser and biplane wing inspired by Ferrari’s Le Mans-winning 499P racer.

One of Ferrari's most extreme models to date, the 1016bhp SF90 XX is an evolution of the firm's flagship SF90 and comes with a host of F1-inspired technologies aimed at maximising its on-track performance (as befits the XX lineage).

Ferrari's chief test driver, Raffaele de Simone, said the firm wanted to develop a car that would drastically enhance performance but also "give the confidence to the driver to push the car at its limit".

In its raciest mode, the SF90 XX can reach 62mph from a standstill in just 2.3sec and hit double that speed 4.2sec later.

Another exercise in the textbook of ultra-exclusive motoring, this jaw-dropping hypercar costs somewhere in the region of €10 million (£8,691,450) and was created, according to Ferrari, for "one very imaginative, passionate and exacting customer".

It is essentially a reworking of the 488 GT3 track car and apparently gives a "tantalising glimpse" of cars Ferrari will launch in the decades to come. Headline design features include the LaFerrari-style butterfly doors, wrap-around headlights and slimline rear light 'blade'.

Created specifically for customers with cash to spare, this sculpted, aero-optimised single-seater is the only example in the world, and cost €10 million (£8,691,450). It was supposedly bought by the same customer who bought the KC23.

It is powered by a 6.5-litre V12 that you'll also find in the 812 Superfast and pushes out 798bhp and 530lb ft.

It's relatively light too, weighing 1500kg thanks to carbonfibre composite bodywork. For reference, a Porsche 911 GT3 RS weighs 1525kg.