Ferrari no longer builds the 812 Superfast. Production wound down and its successor took the stage — which quietly turned the 812 from “current model” into “the last of its line.” If you have always meant to experience the big front-engined V12 Ferrari, the window to buy one new has closed. The window to arrive in one has not.
The last of the classic V12 Ferraris.
The end of a bloodline
The 812 sat at the end of an unbroken line of front-engined V12 Ferrari flagships stretching back through the F12, the 599 and the Daytona to the very beginning of the company. Its 6.5-litre, naturally aspirated V12 made around 800 horsepower without a turbo or a motor in sight — the largest, purest expression of the engine Ferrari built its name on. Its replacement, the 12Cilindri, carries the torch with new styling and new technology, but the 812's particular combination — that shape, that unfiltered engine, that name — is finished.
What discontinuation changes
The day a great Ferrari goes out of production, its story flips. Supply is now fixed forever; every year a few cars leave the road; and the model quietly moves from the showroom conversation to the collector conversation. The 812 has an unusually strong claim in that second conversation — “the last naturally aspirated front-engined V12 Superfast” is the kind of sentence auction catalogues are built on. Owners know it, which is why fewer of these cars are seen out working than the production numbers would suggest.
Where the name comes from
“Superfast” sounds like a modern marketing flourish; it is actually one of the oldest names in the catalogue, borrowed from the coachbuilt 500 Superfast of the 1960s — the Ferrari of shipping magnates and film stars. Reviving it for the 812 was a deliberate signal that this was a flagship in the grand-touring tradition: enormous engine in the front, seats set far back, a shape built for distance and drama in equal measure. The name retired with the car, which gives the 812 a second collectible distinction — the last Ferrari to ever wear it.
Ours still works for a living
The G Class Hire 812 Superfast is the counter-example: a discontinued V12 Ferrari that still takes bookings. Chauffeur-driven across Sydney, it is the elegant one of the supercar range — where the Lamborghinis shout, the Ferrari sweeps. That makes it the exotic we recommend most for weddings and proposals: unmistakable presence, standard doors for a graceful step-out, and the prancing horse on the nose for the photographs.
Hearing it before it's history
Big naturally aspirated V12s are not coming back; every marque has said so. The 812 is one of the last you can simply book — for the arrival, the anniversary drive along the harbour, or the shoot that needs Maranello's soundtrack. Check availability and hear the last of the line while it still runs Sydney's streets.
