Call this Ferrari Friday. CarBuzz has just found trademarks for nearly a dozen new names from the Italian automaker. We don’t think that means 10 new Ferrari models to match, but there are some excellent possibilities on the list. It includes two names for flagship hypercars and four open-top models as just some of the highlights, with plenty of pulls from its list of all-time greats.
Four New Open-Top Ferraris?
2027 Ferrari 849 Testarossa spider and coupe parkedFerrari
We’ll start at the top of the Ferrari hierarchy with two names that would sit at the very top. Those are trademarks for Ferrari F80XX and Ferrari FXX80. The F80 is the latest brand flagship, continuing the line started with the F40 and continuing through the F50, Enzo, and LaFerrari. It launched in 2024, and gets a 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 and has electric motors for all-wheel drive.
FXX is the name Ferrari gave to the evolution of the Enzo that was made specifically for the track. An F80XX or FXX80 would then logically be a version of the F80 with similar changes to add it to the group of cars the company sells for track days it supports and runs.
Ferrari recently trademarked FX-100 and FX100, which could be related to this and mark Ferrari’s 100th anniversary as a race team the way the F80 marked 80 years of cars. Or those two could be planned for later.
Ferrari F80 front 3/4 view in Rosso CorsaFerrari
Those weren’t the only new F80s. There is also a trademark for a Ferrari F80 Targa as well as an F80 Roadster, and those are more obvious. Ferrari has done Targa models before, with a removable roof panel instead of the whole roof. The company recently patented a new targa top design. It has also done an open-top flagship before, with the most recent one named the LaFerrari Aperta.
We don’t expect two different open-top F80s, let alone three, but Aperta was also on the list of trademarks with another car. The Ferrari 12Cilindri MM Aperta (along with simply 12Cilindri MM) combines two different tag-on names to the V12 grand tourer: Aperta for open and MM for Mille Miglia.
Ferrari has used MM before, going back to the 1950s. Originally, it was used on cars developed for that epic 1,000-mile race, including cars like the 250 MM. More recently, Ferrari used it on a one-off 488 called the 488 MM Speciale that gave the 488 new bodywork. Yes, there is already a 12Cilindri Spider convertible, but this would be something different.
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A new GTO?
A restyled 12Cilindri roadster and coupe might not be the only V12s on the way. Ferrari also filed for 12Cilindri GTO, which stands for Gran Turismo Omologato and is arguably the most iconic moniker in Prancing Horse history. Only three GTO models have been built over the decades, starting with the 1962 250 GTO, which is now among the most valuable of all cars ever built. The turbocharged 288 GTO landed in the 1980s and paved the way for the F40. And then there’s the 599 GTO, which was a street car incorporating the changes that created the track-only 599XX.
296 Challenge Stradale And New Racer Could Be Coming
2026 Ferrari 296 Speciale front 3/4 Exterior Finished In GreenFerrari
Last but certainly not least are two more that are much more predictable. Ferrari 296 Challenge Stradale and Ferrari 296 CS. The 296 is the entry point to Ferrari’s mid-engine sports car range, and that makes it the ideal starting point for some race cars.
Ferrari has only used the Challenge Stradale name once before, on the Ferrari 360. The company took the 360 Challenge, the racing model made for the series of the same name, and turned it back into a road car. The goal was a car that was lighter and sharper than the standard 360 road cars, and the Challenge Stradale (for Racing Street) accomplished that. Ferrari 296 CS is the natural shortening of that name.
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Since that car, the Italian automaker has used both Stradale and Challenge separately on multiple vehicles. It hasn’t used them together, though. We’ve already seen the 296 Challenge Stradale in testing, and the rebirth of the name could arrive with another trademark: the one for 296 Challenge Evo. That would describe an updated version of the 296 Challenge race car.
Trademark filings do not guarantee the use of such nomenclature in future vehicles and are often used exclusively as a means of protecting intellectual property. Such a filing cannot be construed as confirmation of a production-bound application.
Source: UIBM
