“It’s an 819bhp GR86…” Ferrari 12C rewrites the super-GT rulebook

Ferrari made it clear that they still know what they’re doing with the 12 Cilindri

The annual request from the editors: give us your ‘favourite’ car of the past 12 months. I dislike this task because choosing a favourite is too black-and-white an approach when the list includes everything from the madness of an S1 Elise with 300bhp to a purple Rolls Wraith, skulking through Clerkenwell at midnight, utterly in its film-noir element. A comparison framework just doesn’t exist. 
However, when pushed, my thoughts drifted to the summer. Summer, and seven or so miles of B-road in Lanarkshire plus one V12 Ferrari, resulting in a comprehensively blown mind.
I really am loathe to give a Ferrari the nod because choosing the world’s most fetishised supercar maker is unimaginative. But whether or not you like the design direction (I mostly do), and the way the company does business, the truth is that Ferrari is making outstanding cars in the current era, and if the photo above didn’t depict the