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[texasmr2]

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/10/ferr ... -gen-enzo/

[scotty]

I heard ages ago that they HAD to go down the TT V8 route because of EU regs....

[texasmr2]

That could be one of the big reasons but regardless I'm a happy camper because I'm a boost head.

[Jamie]

(Autoweek)

Ferrari is considering twin-turbo V8 power for its successor to the Enzo supercar--an admission sure to send shock waves through the ranks of V12 Enzo owners even though the new car isn't due until 2012.

Ferrari GT technical director Roberto Fedeli confirmed that the Italian sports-car maker is investigating both V12 and V8 options for its Enzo successor but insisted that Ferrari was no longer interested in power wars.

The decision to approve development of an all-new V8--the first such Ferrari supercar engine since the F40--will be a philosophical rather than an engineering one.

"For us, it's not just a question of power. We have to choose whether we maintain the shape of the weight-to-power curve of the Enzo with more power or with less weight," Fedeli said. "If we do a [2200-pound] car with the same weight-to-power ratio as the FXX, then you want to save the maximum weight. The best packaging for that kind of car is an eight-cylinder turbo. That would have to be an all-new V8."

It means Ferrari is running parallel V8 and V12 development programs on the next Enzo-style supercar, though neither has been allocated an official internal code number.

"The FXX is to test some innovations that we have in our minds [for the next car]," said Fedeli. "We have one to one and a half years to choose the solution before we start the car."

This might even be what the next Enzo looks like.

Amazing

[madbrad]

I was under the impression the reason the 84 GTO was turbo V8 rather than 12 Cylinders was that the 308 was a V8 and the GTO being built on that architecture nothin bigger would fit so they just added the scrollers.
At that time I don't know if any Euro regs would have necessitated that choice. It's certainly possible. It never occurred to me all these years until it was mentioned in this thread.