Ferrari A Race Car for the Street

" From yet to our cars, what I prefer is the 599 because it offers the final model in which we put all that we know about a car."

" The 599 GTB Fiorano, the new 2-seat V12 king of the hill luxury super-car wearing one of the most famous names in the world of motor sports, Ferrari. "

" Naming of Ferraris is always a difficult task. 599 comes from the overall displacement of the car divided by 10. So, it's 5.99 liters divided by 10, it gives you 599. GTB comes from another very traditional name of the Ferraris in the `70s, the 275 GTB, and we wanted really to keep a contact, a link with these traditional cars and Fiorano is a track of Ferrari that gives you the idea of how radicated is the Ferrari plant to this environment. The environment where racing means everything, the recent Ferrari Formula One race car technology is now found inside Ferrari road cars like the 599. Formula One gearbox is a normal gearbox, manual gearbox with a clutch but as you can see, you don't have in our cars the clutch pedal because of in electronic system, manage the clutch and the gear in order to change the velocity of the car as we want."

" The 599 is the first Ferrari road car with Ferrari's Formula One traction control system. A small switch on the steering wheel allows to change computer input of the car. It has 5 settings: Ice, Low Grip, Sport, and Race modes, and in typical Ferrari fashion, the fifth position turns the computers off. All the power of a 599 GTB Fiorano is now in your hands."

" The handling modes that we experienced before was actually the Wet mode. So, it was very planted. Now, we are experiencing Sport mode where you can feel that the car is a lot more energetic."

" We normally declare performance in kilometers per hour and we have 0 to 60 miles per hour, which is exactly the same as 0 to 100 kilometers per hour. So, it's less than 3.7 seconds and the top speed which is to us over 330 kilometers per hour should be over 205 miles per hour. We have to check it out."

" The 599 owns another Ferrari first. It is the most aerodynamically efficient V12 front engine car ever to wear the logo of the prancing horse. For Ferrari, everything is about making the cars fast."

" Performance, both in terms of engine performance and handling performance, and in 1 word, it's a matter of emotions that the car must transfer to the driver."

" After 2 years of development, the 599 is done. It joins the other current models of what they call Team Ferrari. The F430 Coupe and convertible, both V8-powered mid-engine cars that runs 0 to 60 in 4 seconds and top out at 196 miles an hour, and then, there's a 612 Scaglietti, a V12-powered 4-seat Ferrari that will get 199 on the straightaway. Bigger prices for the F430 is at around 200,000 dollars. The V12 cars are closer to 300,000."

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[razaac13]

@TCarbonaro no. a corvette looks like a ferrari ;D

[3089280288]

A step above Lamborghini. A Lamborghini can get my attention but a Ferrari can hold my attention.

[TCarbonaro]

it almost looks like a corvette

[capsaicinrain]

the 599 is my favorite car. period.