It’s almost a decade since Ferrari introduced its last extra-special XX-series car, the La Ferraribased FXX-K. Between that, the original Enzo-based FXX, the 599XX and the Evo version of each, it is reckoned that Maranello has so far made (or, in some cases, remade) fewer than 100 XX cars in total, only for its wealthiest and most favoured customers.
Lately, however, those favoured few have been distracted by other things. Ferrari’s Icona creations have been cars of more jewel-like, show car-level design appeal than the more brutally purposeful XXs, and with extra-special engineering.
So why rekindle the old track-special lineage now? Isn’t it a backwards step? Well, it might have been, if that were really what Maranello were up to.
The new SF90 XX is, to at least some extent,…