Could Ferrari be far along enough in development of the F450 to take it to Frankfurt? Well, German magazine Auto, Motor und Sport seems to be under the impression that Ferrari is ready to bring a concept version of the car to the show by September.

The F450, referred to internally as the F142 by Ferrari, will come with a longer wheelbase and wider track than the F430 and be a little taller too. Pics and spy videos seen so far also show the F450 sporting new front and rear aprons as well as a centrally mounted exhaust system in the rear skirt.
Under the hood will be a 4.5 liter V8 with 550 hp (possibly up to 585 hp, according to Auto, Motor und Sport) coupled to the double-clutch gearbox seen in the California. The increase in power coming from a higher engine speed and an improved cooling system with larger air intakes. Coming from Formula 1 technology, the car may also feature a Kinetic Energy Recovery (KERS) system, with energy being recovered from the braking system.

 

I _really_ hope that they won't put any KERS into it.

 

Why?

 

Did just see this illustration. Will be fun to see how the car will look like when its ready.

 

Should be pretty awesome but I'd love to see Ferrari actually going down in displacement back to 3.5L with turbos or something. That'd be sick.

 

I am not sure about Ferrari will show any sort of concepts this Frankfurt. It is no doubt that F142 (F450, F500 or whatever) will be launched, but not so fast. I would be happy if I am wrong and hope that it will be launched this autumn at Frankfurt, but I will be not surprised if this F-car will be launched a little bit later than expected and will look a little bit more different than expected.

 

All of the info and pics in this thread are 100% speculation; nothing has been released or announced by Ferrari.

 

It'd be pretty bad timing to release one right now. Isn't Ferrari having a hard enough time as it is selling the F430s they already built?

 

If it looks like that rendering I think it's going to be amazingggg...

 

The rendering looks awesome. One can only hope