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The 2022 Ferrari 296 GTB boasts of a gorgeous 818-horsepower monster. Yes, this is the first official Ferrari-badged road car to employ a V-6 engine. It's also the first hybridized Ferrari not to electrify the front axle, saving weight and maintaining the dynamic purity of rear-wheel drive. Great powertrain-design engineering is imputed into the 296 GTB. The 120-degree back angle leaves plenty of room to nestle turbo and the supercar-makers employ symmetric counter-rotating turbos for optimal exhaust gas flow. The engine rev to 8,500 rpm and the hybrid motors employ a compact and torque-dense axial-flux “pancake“ design and draw from a battery pack with just under 7.5 kWh. Ferrari says its motor is derived from the motor-generator kinetic unit (MGU-K) in its Formula1 cars which transmit power to the ground via an eight-speed twin-clutch transaxle, employing a third clutch to decouple the engine from the electric motor and transaxle. Borrowing the central fuel injector and spark plug locat
