Zlatan's Ferrari F80 caps seven birthdays that went from V12 to V6
Zlatan's birthday ritual has become a seven-year tour of Ferrari's changing flagship
Zlatan Ibrahimović took delivery of his Ferrari F80 on 3 October, his 45th birthday, and marked it with photos of the black hypercar on social media. He had revealed the order a year earlier, on his 44th birthday, after an August 2025 visit to Maranello with design chief Flavio Manzoni. A new Ferrari on his birthday has been his habit since 2019.
Zlatan's black Ferrari F80 hides a yellow driver's seat
Zlatan's F80 is finished in black over a mostly black cabin, with a yellow driver's seat as the one loud detail. The dark paint mutes the sculpted intakes and aero surfaces that look sharpest in red. Underneath is Ferrari's most powerful road car to date: a 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 derived from the Le Mans-winning 499P, plus three electric motors, for 1,200 hp. Ferrari quotes a dry weight of 1,525 kg, 0 to 100 km/h in 2.15 seconds, 0 to 200 km/h in 5.75 seconds and a 350 km/h top speed.
Zlatan's first birthday Ferrari, the 2019 Monza SP2, had an 810 hp V12
Zlatan's birthday Ferraris began on 3 October 2019, when he turned 38 while playing for LA Galaxy and posted a Monza SP2 with the caption “happy birthday to Zlatan”. That car has no roof and no windscreen, and a 6.5-litre V12 making 810 hp. For his 40th in 2021 came an SF90 Spider, a plug-in hybrid V8 with 1,000 hp. His 41st brought two V12s at once, a Daytona SP3 with 840 hp and an 812 Competizione A with 830 hp, and his 42nd a Purosangue with a 725 hp V12.
The SF90 XX and F80 took Zlatan's birthday cars past 1,000 hp
His 43rd birthday car, in 2024, was a black SF90 XX, the track-focused SF90 with 1,030 hp from a V8 and three electric motors. Then came the F80, announced on his 44th birthday and delivered on his 45th. Lined up, the cars tell a clear story: the engine has gone from twelve cylinders to six in seven years, while peak output has climbed from 810 to 1,200 hp and top speed from just over 300 km/h to 350 km/h. Zlatan's garage has tracked Ferrari's flagship strategy almost exactly.
Zlatan wrote of outrunning police at 325 km/h in his 2011 autobiography
Speed has been part of the Zlatan story for a long time. In I Am Zlatan, the 2011 autobiography written with David Lagercrantz, he described losing the police at 325 km/h in a Porsche, in a passage about Pep Guardiola disliking players who drove sports cars to Barcelona training. The F80 tops that figure by 25 km/h. It is also a car Ferrari developed with circuits in mind, which is where a number like that belongs.
Ferrari is building 799 F80s at around €3.6 million each
Ferrari is building 799 F80s between 2025 and 2027, at around €3.6 million each, and allocates them to its most loyal clients. Zlatan's place was never in much doubt: in August 2025 he posted a photo with Flavio Manzoni holding a signed F80 sketch, and Ferrari's own account answered “A perfect match”. His car took about twelve months to arrive. Customer F80s are now reaching Europe's car events too, including the one Ferrari brought to the Zoute Grand Prix in Knokke.
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Zlatan's birthday garage is an honest record of where Ferrari has gone since 2019. A buyer who wanted only V12s could have stopped at the Daytona SP3 and the Purosangue. He followed Maranello into plug-in hybrids and now into a V6 flagship, and every step brought more power than the one before.
His 46th birthday falls on 3 October 2027, the last year of F80 production. Ferrari is already testing an F80 XX, and a collector who followed his SF90 Spider with an SF90 XX has shown how he treats a sharper version of a car he already owns.
