Ferrari 296 GTS 2024 review: Hi-po plug-in hybrid V6 supercar sets sights on McLaren Artura Spider!

The 2024 Ferrari 296 GTS roadster is taking the Italian supercar brand into the next generation. While it may be the Prancing Horse's entry-level model, it still puts a massive emphasis on performance - but it doesn't do so in the usual way. Case in point, you won't find a high-revving V8 under its bonnet.
Instead, the 296 heads in a very different direction with a 3.0-litre twin-turbo petrol V6. But there's more: in a sign of the times, it forms part of a plug-in hybrid powertrain. While PHEVs aren't exactly new to Ferrari, they're now proliferating into the 'mainstream', having been the preserve of its hypercar flagship.
In this expert review, CarsGuide Contributing Journalist Andrew Chesterton gets behind the wheel of the Ferrari 296 GTS to find out if it's a better supercar for being powered by a V6 PHEV set-up. After all, it's certainly not short of power, with up to 610kW of combined grunt available.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:34 Pricing and features
01:21 Design
03:04 Practicality
03:16 Under the bonnet
03:42 Efficiency
04:16 Driving
08:11 Safety
08:24 Ownership
08:38 Verdict
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Amazing video 🎉 Much love from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@marklearner3299]

Beautiful Ferrari

[@your-neighbor]

Not everyone that watches your channel is from Australia, why are you giving Australian only prices?

[@mvnorsel6354]

Why haven't other manufacturers copied the yellow tacho ?😅

[@gdivan8849]

My favorite ferrari.

[@JC-pn2ur]

Ahhhh another PHEV for the masses... You can buy this, or a second house!

[@pauldewar626]

Australian’s need to boycott these frankly absurd prices we are charged for cars compared to the rest of the World.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

I read your post and walked out of the dealer, thanks.😅

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It’s because of the tax to protect local car builders.

[@your-neighbor]

​@@user-nc6rn3rd2hProtect them from what?

[@ozbassman11]

A waste of a youtube video - totally irrelevant vehicle except to motoring journalists and the mega rich.

[@Brendansf1Addiction]

It’s a car Guide it just telling what it is 😂. “Waste of video” is just to funny 😂