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I’VE DONE IT. I’ve summited Mount Ferrari. The Ferrari 812 Superfast carries the most powerful series-production V12 engine in the company’s 70-year history. And there are good reasons to think it represents the top of the technical mountain.
The first is its extremity: a naturally aspirated 6.5-liter, 60-degree V12 (stroked .2 liter over the Ferrari F12 Tdf) capable of revving like a 1-liter street bike on nitrous, producing a 789 horsepower at a soul-tingling 8,500 rpm—which I could just touch in 2nd gear between…