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Ferrari’s new 2+2 V8 will be launched at the Paris Motor Show in October, and will feature two new developments: a folding steel hard-top and a direct-injection engine.

That engine should have a capacity of around 4.3 litres, but it will owe little to the F430’s high-revving 4.3 V8, aside from the engine block.

Sources say it will have all-new injection rails, new intakes, new cylinder heads and a new valve-train, and it will also mark the debut of a type of throttle body never before used on a car. Direct injection will increase fuel efficiency by up to eight per cent, and a new gearbox will give further gains.

Regardless of what it is called, the new Ferrari will spearhead the company’s push towards 10,000 cars a year, and is expected to contribute around 4,000 sales a year. Ferrari’s current volumes are just over 6.000 cars a year.

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