{"id":854094,"date":"2025-06-07T22:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/surprise-ferrari-might-not-have-built-its-last-stick-shift-sports-car\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T22:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:13:19","slug":"surprise-ferrari-might-not-have-built-its-last-stick-shift-sports-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/surprise-ferrari-might-not-have-built-its-last-stick-shift-sports-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Ferrari Might Not Have Built Its Last Stick-Shift Sports Car"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ferrari might consider bringing back the manual transmission, says the company\u2019s chief product development officer Gianmaria Fulgenzi. \u201cIt’s something that could be in the future, depending on the product,\u201d Fulgenzi told MotorTrend<\/em> in Italy last week.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean we might see stick-shift versions of Ferraris like the mid-engine 296 GTB<\/a> or the front-engine 12 Cilindri<\/a>, however. While Fulgenzi acknowledged some customers have asked for a Ferrari with a manual transmission, he emphatically ruled out any possibility Maranello would follow the lead set by Porsche with its new 911 T<\/a> and introduce a manual transmission variant of a mainstream model.<\/p>\n

The last Ferrari offered with a manual transmission was the 2012-model-year California<\/a>. Since then, Ferrari has only offered cars equipped with dual-clutch transmissions. And Fulgenzi made it clear that\u2019s not about to change: \u201cFor a performance car the manual transmission is not something [you want],\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you have your hands on the wheel and you can use the paddles, there’s nothing better than that. Nothing, nothing, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Ferrari does bring back the manual, it would likely appear in one of the company\u2019s high-end, limited-edition Icona models, Fulgenzi said. \u201cIf we are talking about an Icona car [it could happen], because it’s a car that represents a heritage to be admired, to be driven in a certain way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Icona cars built so far\u2014the front-engine Monza SP1 and SP2, and the mid-engine Daytona SP3<\/a>, all of which commanded $2 million-plus price tags\u2014took themes and concepts from Ferraris of the past and reinterpreted them in a modern way using cleverly repackaged hardware from existing Ferrari models. Icona cars have become a fourth model stream for Ferrari, alongside the sports cars, the GTs, and the special hypercars. And a highly lucrative one: All 599 Daytona SP3s were quickly snapped up by eager collectors, generating more than $1.3 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n

Ferrari marketing chief Enrico Galliera has already announced Ferrari will do more Icona cars. \u201cWe have no idea what the next will be,\u201d he told MotorTrend<\/em> in 2022, \u201cthough I think you can easily identify four or five strong concepts we could work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

How about a modern take on a 250 GT SWB<\/a>, Enrico? With a manual transmission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Blythe Schewe
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Ferrari might consider bringing back the manual transmission, says the company\u2019s chief product development officer Gianmaria Fulgenzi. \u201cIt’s something that could be in the future, depending on the product,\u201d Fulgenzi told MotorTrend in Italy last week. That doesn\u2019t mean we might see stick-shift versions of Ferraris like the mid-engine 296 GTB or the front-engine 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1375,1628],"tags":[6999,5265],"class_list":{"0":"post-854094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ferrari","8":"category-surprise","9":"tag-ferrari","10":"tag-surprise"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}