Sant'Agata gets Lamborghinis. Maranello gets Ferraris. Tomelloso gets wine.
This week's spot is a Ferrari SF90 Stradale, caught by @BMW_G82 in Tomelloso, Spain — a town of 36,000 in the flat middle of La Mancha, better known for its vineyards than its supercars. Nothing about the place explains the car. That's rather the point.
What the name means
SF90 is not a model code. Scuderia Ferrari was founded in 1929; the car launched in 2019. Ninety years of racing, compressed into two letters and a number — Ferrari does not hand that name to something ordinary.
Three motors and no reverse gear
The SF90 was Ferrari's first series-production plug-in hybrid. A twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 drives the rear wheels through an eight-speed dual-clutch. Three electric motors handle the rest: one between engine and gearbox, and one on each front wheel. Together, 986 hp — the most powerful road car Ferrari had ever built at launch.
The front motors also make it four-wheel drive, which for a mid-engined Ferrari was new. They're independent, so the car can brake one front wheel and drive the other to help it turn.
And there is no reverse gear. Ferrari left it out of the gearbox entirely and backs the car up on the electric motors instead — lighter, and one fewer thing to package.
The numbers
- Engine: twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 + three electric motors, 986 hp combined
- Layout: mid-engine, all-wheel drive, 8-speed dual-clutch
- Launched: 2019
- Production: roughly 650 a year
- Value today: ~$580,000
- Country: Italy
Why it's worth logging
This is a MYTHIC — 78 spots out of nearly 2,900 have reached that tier. It's worth 624 points, and it pulled 49 fires, the most of any spot this week.
It's also the second SF90 to win Spot of the Week, after one in June. Six have been logged on Carva in total, which makes the SF90 something unusual: a car rare enough to be mythic, spotted often enough that you might actually meet one. Preferably not in a town best known for wine.
Seen something worth the walk back? Open Carva, point, shoot — next week this could be your spot.