There are many reasons to get excited about the future of supercars right now, But few of those offerings send us licking our chops quite so quickly as the successor of the legendary Ferrari Enzo throne. Christened the F70 internally, the machine reportedly boasts a hybrid drivetrain brawny enough to bolt the Italian menace to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds.

Ferrari F70 Rendering – Front 3/4

Odds are there’s a healthy V12 mounted right in the middle, and if the whispers we hear happen to be true, the F70 will be able to saunter up to a top speed of 250 mph. Our spy photo friends have produced a pair of renderings for us based on their own surreptitiously snapped images that help cut through the awful body cladding we’ve seen attached to the test cars frolicking about Europe at the moment.

Ferrari F70 Rendering – Rear 3/4

If the production car looks even remotely as attractive as these sketches, the world is about to become a much sexier place. With plenty of 458 in the front and hints of F40 in that engine cover, there’s plenty to get excited about here. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until the 2013 Geneva Motor Show before we see the real deal.

It has been a long time for Ferrari to be without a flagship hyper car – eight years to be precise, since production of the Enzo ended in 2004, but the Italians are getting ready to return to the category they helped forge. The successor for the Ferrari Enzo is a car on a very short list of soon to be released hyper cars that are slated to be placed into production next year as 2014 models.

Codenamed the F70 will be 22 percent stiffer and 20 percent lighter. These achievements have been accomplished thanks to Ferrari F1 engineers, who had designed the body of the upcoming super car.

Under the hood, Ferrari F70 will get a hybrid powertrain, including a large V12 petrol engine and two electric motors, mated to a double clutch transmission. The first electric motor will be used as a generator, charging the lithium-ion battery pack. The second one will charge the auxiliary systems.

Learn all about it by watching the Ferrari World video below.

Ferrari officials have confirmed via it’s Instagram account that they will bring to Geneva the Enzo successor. Dubbed F-150 the new Maranello model will be “the most powerful HyperFerrari” ever made. The new F-150 features some technologies borrowed from the F1 cars and promise to be just as fast around the corners.

This was posted by Ferrari on their Instagram page

The new supercar will have a version of the F12berlinetta‘s V-12 engine paired with a generator and an electric motor making a combined output of more than 900 hp, a carbon-fiber tub chassis similar to the McLaren MP4-12C’s, and more organic styling as compared to the Enzo’s. A private event specifications chart indicates the car’s V-12 engine will produce 800 hp at 9000 rpm, and a hybrid drive system will add another 150 hp of motivation. Those figures match our expectations for the V-12 HY-KERS drivetrain that was first teased in Beijing last year. It has also been revealed that the Ferrari will have a dry weight of 2800 pounds  due in part to a clever carbon-fiber body shell.

Ferrari F-150 Engine Bay

The power figures and weight should produce some spectacular performance figures. Ferrari reportedly estimates a three-second 0-to-62-mph time, a top speed of 230 mph, and a Nürburgring lap time below seven minutes. That’s a barrier that almost no road-legal cars have breached, and it would prove the Ferrari F150 to be a serious performer.

Ferrari F-150 HY-KERS-system

We’ll find out the full extent of Ferrari’s clever engineering when the Enzo successor debuts sometime next year. Recent rumors point to a big reveal happening at either the Geneva Auto show in March.

To read our other articles about the Ferrari F-150 click the hyperlinks below:

Is This Leaked Power Point Image the Ferrari F70 better known as the Enzo Successor? 

Ferrari release the First Technical F70 Video outlining the next Enzo’s tech and spec’s  

Interested in seeing what the Ferrari Enzo Replacement, the F70 will look like?  

Ferrari’s latest hypercar, which had been rumoured to be called by its development code name the “F150”, has been unveiled as the “LaFerrari” at the Media day at this year’s 2013 Geneva Auto Show. It’s an unconventional name for a Ferrari defying the conventions of its hyper cars: 250 GTO, GTO, F40, F50 and Enzo forebears. Now we know what you’re thinking what an unbelievable stupid name for what is being billed as the greatest Ferrari ever conceptualized. All we can say is that we agree with you and are currently thinking of an appropriate nick name to use in our office.

Ferrari LaFerrari- In its Crosshairs

Introduced at the Geneva Motor Show, the LaFerrari is not only Ferrari’s first-ever hybrid, but also its fastest-ever road car. The headlining news is that the mid-mounted 6.3-liter V-12 engine is augmented by a hybrid drivetrain. Two electric motors are employed, with one coupled to the seven-speed dual-clutch transaxle, and the second being used to power the engine accessories — draw power from a 132-pound battery pack mounted to the floor of the car’s chassis. The V-12 alone produces 789 hp and revs to a screaming 9250 rpm. The electric motor adds 161 hp, and in total the HY-KERS (for HYbrid Kinetic Energy Recovery System) cranks out 951 hp and 664 lb-ft of torque.

Ferrari LaFerrari – Up top, Front 3/4 shot

Ferrari claims a sub-3-second 0-62 mph time and a sub 7-second 0-124 mph sprint. There’s no word on top speed, but Ferrari does claim that with a Fiorano lap-time of under 1:20, LaFerrari is a five seconds quicker around its home racetrack than the Enzo and more than three seconds quicker than Ferrari’s current front-engined flagship, the F12 Berlinetta.

Ferrari LaFerrari- Front 3/4 shot

Ferrari has worked hard to negate the weight problems hybrid systems incur, with all of the setup’s mass squeezed between front and rear axles and as low as possible to keep the centre of gravity in check. The driver’s seat is fixed (though tailored to each of the cars owners), with steering wheel and pedals adjustable instead. Ferrari describes the driving position as similar to a single-seater racer, one of the LaFerrari’s many homages to the company’s rich Formula 1 heritage. This F1 inspiration may also be the reason that there are four different types of carbon fiber production to be used exclusively in the chassis.

Ferrari LaFerrari – Interior layout

Within its many lines are important active aerodynamic elements, though, including active diffusers front and rear, guide vanes on the underbody, and an active rear spoiler all aimed at providing downforce when needed without any additional drag when not. They all move to create the best blend of downforce and aerodynamic efficiency, based on decisions made by the car’s computer. The LaFerrari is a needle-nosed amalgam of bulges and vents and aerodynamic filigree, topped by a menacing squint of greenhouse coddling two of the happiest people on the planet. Pirelli P-Zero tires wrap the five-spoke wheels to complete the exterior styling. This unique tire and rim package have been designed alongside the lightweight brake calipers for better cooling while grabbing the large carbon-ceramic brake discs.

Ferrari LaFerrari – How do you back this car up?

Ferrari has price dropped the figure of a cool million dollars per car and revealed that 499 cars will be built. What they conveniently left out is when they will begin to roll off of the assembly line as they made no mention of of when customers can hope to get theirs delivered, we suspect Q3 of this year. Though only 499 people can buy one, the LaFerrari will serve as a halo model that adds prestige to the company’s entire lineup.