Introduced for the 2011 model year, this four-seat Ferrari marked a major turning point for the company’s grand touring cars. The nameplate stood for Ferrari Four, a reference to both its four seats and its role as Ferrari’s first production model with a four-wheel-drive system. Rather than adopting the higher-riding, all-weather formula often associated with 2+2 luxury cars, it kept a low, elegant GT profile and a front-mid-engine layout, pairing long-distance comfort with clear sporting intent.
Its design was penned by Pininfarina and deliberately broke from the more traditional look of earlier Ferrari four-seaters. The body combined a fastback silhouette with a practical hatchback-style rear opening, giving the car a distinctive shape that helped define Ferrari’s modern GT identity in the early 2010s. Underneath, the model was notable for introducing Ferrari’s 4RM all-wheel-drive architecture, a technical feature developed to preserve the brand’s typical driving balance while adding traction in poor conditions.
This nameplate was always positioned as a versatile V12 grand tourer rather than a pure two-seat sports car. In Ferrari’s range, it occupied the role of the company’s most spacious and usable twelve-cylinder road car of its era, aimed at customers who wanted everyday breadth of use without abandoning the marque’s performance character. The model remained on sale through 2016, when it was replaced by the GTC4Lusso. Because it was succeeded by a new model rather than revived after a gap, this nameplate has a single continuous production period.