Ferrari 296

Among the 352 Ferrari entries in the MotorJury library, the Ferrari 296 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2021. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Ferrari 296 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Kia Kia EV6, the Tesla Tesla Model Y, the Nissan Nissan Z — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Ferrari 296 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2992 cc F163 BC 120° twin-turbo V6; quoted output is Engine: 663 PS / Electric motors: 167 PS / Combined: 830 PS; kerb weight is recorded at 1470-1540 kg; drive goes through 8-speed Magna 8DCL900 dual-clutch; the layout is Longitudinal rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 451 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Ferrari story

Within Ferrari's own catalogue the Ferrari 296 sits alongside the 250 GTE, the 328 GTS, the 348 TS, the 360 Modena. The record names the Ferrari F8 as its predecessor and the powerout = Engine: 663 PS / Electric motors: 167 PS / Combined: 830 PS as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Ferrari Styling Centre under the direction of Flavio Manzoni. Assembly is recorded at Italy: Maranello.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Ferrari 296 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.