Ferrari’s new £670,000 supercar has smashed the company’s track record, making it the fastest road car ever – and it’s a hybrid. The exorbitant car with a maximum speed of 199mph shaved 1.4 seconds off the existing record set by the SF90 Assetto Fiorano while being raced around the company’s test track, completing the lap in just 1 minute 17.309 seconds. 

This ultra-expensive piece of kit has some serious welly behind it, able to go from 0 to 60mph in just 2.3 seconds. In comparison, that acceleration is equal to one of the fastest rollercoasters in the UK, Rita, which catapults riders forward at a similar break-neck speed with a maximum G force of 4.7. Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale is the company’s most aggressively focused road car since the F40 and F50, and one of the key selling points – among many – is that it is the first road-legal XX version.  

Interestingly, the lightning-fast Ferarri SF90 XX Stradale is a plug-in hybrid, powered by a twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 engine and three electric motors on a 7.9-kWh lithium-ion battery. It’s powerful enough to push the XX ahead of the Lamborghini Revuelto.

The hybrid engine doesn’t seem to halt its performance one bit, with a maximum speed of 199mph and 786 horsepower at 7,900 rpm, a 17 horsepower upgrade on the previous version.

It also has a suite of latest-generation electronics to maximise its capabilities on track, controlling the suspension, active aerodynamics and braking systems.  

Ferrari will produce 799 Stradales and 599 Spiders, more than all the other XXs combined, including cars like the FXX EVO, FXX-K EVO and 599XX EVO. 

However, if the eye-watering cost upwards of £670,000 is too much to bear, you can drool over the car in person – for a small entry fee of £20 of course – at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello.