India, Oct. 18 -- On Thursday, at a SpaceX rocket test site in Texas, Tesla's new Roadster rose on jets of compressed air, flipped over a row of parked cars and came back down on its wheels. It was a showman's reveal, built for the livestream. Nearly eight years earlier, an engineer in Maranello had drawn up a Ferrari that used the same sort of jets for a different purpose, to sharpen its driving dynamics by pressing the car into the road so it could corner, brake and accelerate harder.

Ferrari chief executive Benedetto Vigna confirmed the design in an interview with Hindustan Times in New Delhi, where the Italian supercar maker on Saturday unveiled the Luce, its first all-electric car, and brought its Universo Ferrari exhibition to Indi...