Ferrari 12Cilindri Rental in Dubai

Pull away in the 12Cilindri and the first thing you notice is the noise: a 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12 that revs past 9,000rpm with nothing between you and it, no turbos softening the edges. This is the newest car in Ferrari's front-engine line, the successor to the 812, and it's the big grand-touring statement rather than a compact mid-engine sprinter. We hand it over with free delivery and collection anywhere in the city, so you can rent the Ferrari 12Cilindri in Dubai and have it brought to your hotel or villa fuelled and ready. It's a treat car, a two-seat flagship, and the brief here is simple: pick it for the engine and the drive, not the daily errands.

What the 12Cilindri actually is

Ferrari builds two kinds of headline car. One is the mid-engine supercar, the F8 and the 296 and their kin, short and sharp and built to attack. The other is the front-engine V12 grand tourer, the line the 12Cilindri now leads. The engine sits ahead of you, not behind your shoulders, and that changes the whole character. It's longer, the nose stretches out, and the car settles into a high-speed cruise the way a mid-engine car never quite does.

The number in the name is literal: twelve cylinders, in a V, with no turbocharging. Around 830 horsepower, sent to the rear wheels through an eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox. It comes as a coupe or as the open-top Spider with a folding hard top. What you're renting is the loudest, most theatrical engine Ferrari still makes in a body you can actually live with for a few hours at a time.

12Cilindri or the 812 it replaces

If you've driven the 812 Superfast and loved it, the 12Cilindri is the same idea moved on a generation. Same basic recipe, front V12, two seats, rear drive, but newer underneath and far more modern to look at. The styling splits people. It's flatter and more restrained than the 812, with a black band across the front that some love and some don't. Mechanically it's the current car, the one Ferrari is building now, and the one most people on Sheikh Zayed Road haven't seen yet.

So which to book? If both happen to be on our fleet, take the 12Cilindri. It's the latest design, it's the car people will ask about, and the driving experience is at least the equal of the 812. The only reason to pick the older car is if you specifically prefer how the 812 looks, which is fair enough.

Versus the mid-engine supercars

This is the real decision for most renters. People come to us wanting "a Ferrari for the weekend" and assume that means something like a 296. The 12Cilindri is a different animal. A mid-engine car feels smaller, darts harder into corners, and feels more like a track tool you've borrowed for the road. The 12Cilindri feels grand. You sit ahead of the rear axle, the long nose ahead of you, and it covers ground with a calm the smaller cars don't have.

For a blast up to Hatta or a run toward Abu Dhabi, the V12's reach and that naturally aspirated top end are the point. If you mostly want to thread through Downtown and park outside a restaurant to be seen, a smaller mid-engine car is honestly easier to place. Pick the 12Cilindri when the driving is the event.

Living with it, honestly

Two seats, and that's all. There's a usable boot up front, enough for two soft weekend bags or a couple of carry-ons, which is generous for a car like this but nothing close to a saloon. If you're a couple travelling light it works. If you've got hard suitcases or a third passenger, it won't.

The heat and the roads need flagging. Clearance is low, so the steep ramps in older mall car parks and the sharper speed bumps want care, and you'll learn to take them at an angle and slowly. The cabin cools fast even in a Dubai July, that side is well sorted. The bigger honesty is where 830 horsepower is legal: almost nowhere on the public road. You'll use a fraction of it. The car still feels special at a legal cruise, but go in knowing the full performance lives on a track or in a fine, and Dubai's cameras don't miss much.

Booking and handover

The 12Cilindri is brand new, so we hold very few, and they go first on long weekends and over big events. Tell us your dates early and we'll confirm availability rather than guess. We deliver to your address with a full tank and walk you through the car at handover: the gearbox modes, the manettino drive settings, where the front boot release is, and the quirks worth knowing before you take it out. Salik and Darb tolls are handled on the account, so the gates and the toll-road runs toward Abu Dhabi don't interrupt the drive.