Ferrari’s on a model launch spree like never before, preparing to launch no fewer than five new models by the end of 2026. Some of those are truly significant, like the brand’s first ever EV, the Luce.
A bit less of a watershed moment in the company’s history, but – let’s be honest – much more appealing is the car it’s unveiled today, though: the Amalfi Spider. A drop-top version of the heavily updated Roma launched last year, it’s the newest in a line of ‘entry-level’ front-engined V8, four-seater convertible Ferraris dating back to the California of 2008.
Amalfi Loses its Head
Unsurprisingly, the fundamental recipe of the Amalfi is unchanged for the Spider version. That means it packs the same 3.9-liter twin-turbo V8, here kicking out 631 hp and 561 lb-ft, and sending all that to the rear wheels via an eight-speed dual-clutch automatic.
It also gets the latest versions of Ferrari’s astonishing suite of chassis and dynamic tech, including brake-by-wire and version 6.1 of Side Slip Control, the overarching method through which all the other dynamic systems communicate. Despite losing the roof, it carries over largely the same aero setup as the coupe too, including the three-stage active rear wing which, in its most aggressive setting, provides up to 243 lbs of downforce at 155 mph.
Overall, beheading the Amalfi coupe and filling with all the electric bits needed to retract the fabric roof leads to a 190 lb weight gain, for a total dry weight of 3430 lbs. This doesn’t seem to have had much bearing on performance, though: in the 0-62 mph run, the Spider will match the coupe at 3.3 seconds. Only when you double that does the Spider start to lose out, taking 9.4 seconds to hit 124 mph as opposed to 9.0. Things even out again, though: both cars top out at 199 mph.
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What’s New for the Spider?
While the first two cars in its bloodline, the California and Portofino, used a then-fashionable folding hardtop roof, the Amalfi Spider’s predecessor, the Roma Spider, went back to a much more elegant fabric arrangement. Happily, the Amalfi keeps this setup, and looks all the better for it.
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The roof takes 13.5 seconds to peel back at speeds of up to 37 mph, and once it’s stowed, the whole arrangement is just eight inches thick. That helps keep six cubic feet of trunk space free when the roof is down, compared to nine with it up. Ferrari also says that the five-layer construction of the roof provides insulation and soundproofing on a par with one of the firm’s folding hardtops. Away from the roof, the Amalfi Spider marks the debut of a new entry in Ferrari’s enormous stable of red paints: an orange-tinged shade named Rosso Tramonto.
On the Inside
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Mercifully, the Spider features the same overhauled cabin as the Amalfi coupe, which righted many of the Roma’s wrongs, mainly replacing the capacitive steering wheel controls with proper physical ones and the awkward portrait infotainment screen with a landscape setup. Of course, it’s still a modern Ferrari (that’s not the Luce), so still has most controls clustered on the steering wheel and a multitude of screens, including one to tell the passenger quite how scared they should be.
The big interior change is standard convertible fare – there’s a deployable wind deflector, which can be operated at speeds of up to 106 mph. A new upholstery option is available too, a dark blue-hued technical fabric called Tecnico Ottanio.
If You Have to Ask…
Likely to hit the road later this year, Ferrari unsurprisingly hasn’t released any public pricing for the Amalfi Spider, such is the way with supercar makers these days. The Amalfi coupe, though, starts at roughly $262,000, so expect a small increase over that.
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With heavily updated versions of the Aston Martin Vantage Roadster and Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet both having arrived during the last year, the Amalfi Spider certainly won’t have the soft-top super-sports car market all to itself, but it does have that badge on its side. And no matter what the other four cars Ferrari has up its sleeve in 2026 are, it’s hard to imagine any of them topping the appeal of pedalling the Amalfi down a good road with the top down on a sunny day.
