FERRARI BRINGS THE 849 TESTAROSSA NAMEPLATE OPEN AIR

## #Ferrari849TestarossaSpider Hit Instagram at 14:35 Rome Time Ferrari posted the 849 Testarossa Spider on May 20, 2026 with a single caption line: cutting-edge innovation meets legendary heritage, redefining open-air performance. The hashtag confirmed the variant name and the timing said everything the press release would not. Two months and five days after the 849 Testarossa coupe launched on March 15, the open-top arrived. That cadence is Maranello running the playbook. The pattern repeats with every modern Ferrari V8 platform. Coupe first, Spider follows inside one calendar quarter. The 458 Italia debuted in 2009. The 458 Spider arrived September 2011. The 488 GTB landed February 2015. The 488 Spider showed up at Frankfurt that September. The F8 Tributo went on sale 2019. The F8 Spider followed November 2019. Ferrari does not test the market with its Spiders. It assumes them. ## Two Decades Without the Testarossa. Then Two Variants in 67 Days. The Testarossa nameplate has been dormant since the 512 TR / F512 M variants stopped production in 1996. Twenty-eight years of silence. The 849 broke that silence on March 15, 2026 with the coupe, a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 plug-in hybrid producing 1036 hp combined and a $500,000 starting price, per Ferrari's official press kit. The Spider variant, revealed May 20, lives on the same chassis. Same F154 V8, same 7.45 kWh battery, same dual-clutch gearbox. The roof comes off. [Finally Offline broke down the 849 Testarossa coupe's Assetto Fiorano package](/quick/ferrari-849-testarossa-delivers-1036-horsepower-with-assetto-fiorano-package-mmr4r1af) in March. The Spider is the second body style of the same platform, not a fresh design language. The Maranello calculus: amortize the engineering across two variants and let collectors decide which they want first. ## Retractable Hardtop, Roughly 80 Extra Kilograms Modern Ferrari Spiders use a retractable hardtop, not a soft top. The system has been Ferrari standard since the 458 Spider replaced the F430 Spider in 2011, when the brand abandoned the cloth roof for a folding aluminum one that stows behind the seats in 14 seconds. The mechanism adds weight. Across the modern catalog, Spider variants typically carry 70 to 110 kg of penalty versus their coupe siblings, depending on chassis. The SF90 Spider weighed 1670 kg dry, 100 kg above the 1570 kg SF90 coupe. The 296 GTS came in 70 kg over the 296 GTB. Ferrari has not published the 849 Spider's dry weight as of May 22, 2026. Industry forecasts run between 80 and 100 kg over the coupe's 1656 kg dry. That math puts the Spider at roughly 1740 kg dry. Top speed will likely fall from 333 km/h to 325 km/h with the top deployed. Zero to 100 km/h moves from 2.3 seconds in the coupe to an estimated 2.4 seconds in the Spider. The performance gap is real but small. ## $50,000 More for Sky Ferrari Spider variants price 10 to 12 percent above their coupes. The 296 GTS started at $356,000 in 2022, the 296 GTB at $321,000. The SF90 Spider opened at $570,000, the coupe at $510,000. Applied to the 849 line, the Spider's likely entry price sits around $550,000 to $560,000, before options. The Assetto Fiorano package, available on the coupe for $54,000, will almost certainly extend to the Spider with the same delta. Ferrari's pricing math is consistent because Ferrari's customers are consistent. [Finally Offline previously covered Ferrari's 14,000 cars per year scarcity model](/quick/ferrari-sells-14k-cars-a-year-and-is-worth-more-than-ford-mmzf7btp), the production discipline that lets the brand command higher prices per unit than any other automaker by a wide margin. The Testarossa Spider sells before it ships. Most allocations go to existing collectors who already own a coupe. ## Pininfarina's Ghost Still Sits in the Studio The 849 Testarossa coupe design referenced the 1984 original's side strakes, those parallel intake gills running along the doors that became the Testarossa's signature. The Spider variant retains them. Centro Stile Ferrari penned the body, with chief designer Flavio Manzoni's team leading the studio since 2010 after Pininfarina's external relationship dissolved. Manzoni's design philosophy on the 849 was explicit: heritage cues without retro pastiche. The strakes are functional brake-cooling ducts. The pop-up headlights are not coming back. The Spider variant adds two design tells the coupe does not. First, a body-color buttress behind each headrest, integrating the rollover hoops into the deck profile. Second, a redesigned rear deck that hides the retractable roof's stowage compartment without lengthening the silhouette. Both details echo the SF90 Spider's structural language. The 849 is the new V8 platform. The Spider is the platform's second confirmation. ## Spec Sheet by Q4. Deliveries 2027. Ferrari's product cadence puts full Spider specifications on the configurator by late Q3 or early Q4 2026. First customer deliveries will land Q1 2027. The Testarossa name carries enough weight that allocation requests already exceed planned production for the first model year. Expect a 24-month waitlist for non-Sapphire-tier customers. The math is heritage-priced and supply-locked. The roof comes off in fourteen seconds. Everything else takes two years.