Ever dream of having your own highly modified Ferrari from the experts at Novitec Rosso. Unfortunately they aren’t having a sale, but the Ferrari super tuners have launched an online configurator for the Ferrari 599 and Ferrari 430 models. The program really shows off the difference between the original design from Maranello and what Novitec has done. If you want to see for yourself, check out the link below. Although you can’t bring it home with you, it would still make a nice decoration fro your workspace.
You might recall hearing news about Christiano Ronaldo’s infamous late-night exploits with a Ferrari 599GTB a few months ago that caused him to crash his million-dollar vehicle in a Manchester tunnel.
After having escaped with nothing more than minor injuries and a slap in the wrist from British authorities, the Portugese footballer has replaced his mangled 599GTB with a brand new one.
The price of being filthy rich, yes?
Pictures have been leaked out on the World Wide Web showing Ronaldo getting off a plane at the Tire Aerodrome near Cascais in Portugal and into the waiting seat of a brand-new red Ferrari 599GTB.
The car is surprisingly similar to the one he wrecked a few months ago. It doesn’t seem that Ronaldo is that at all worried about picking up another tab on his credit card worth over $300,000. Besides, that doesn’t seem to be too high a price for the soon-to-be world’s most expensive football player.
For those who don’t know about Ronaldo’s fondness for a Pransing Horse, the star footballer mercilessly wrecked his old 599GTB on his way to training. Fortunately for him, he escaped the incident unscathed but the same can’t be said for the wrecked Ferrari.
This is not the first time that Top Speed has told you about a spider version of the fabulous front engine Ferrari 599 before, but these are the clearest spy shots yet. Ferrari is keeping tight lipped about when exactly the drop top V12 powered GT car will make its auto show debut, but if it doesn’t happen by the end of this year, expect to see it sometime in early 2010.
You may be saying to yourself, don’t those taillights and impression down the side of the car look like a California. Although that may be true, that is exactly what the Ferrari design team wants you to think. Look carefully at the front fenders, right underneath where the impression comes to an end. On a California, there is a small vented area right below this point, but on this spy shot, none. Aside from folding convertible top, the 599 Spider will be identical to the coupe version; best of all is the high revving 6.0 Liter V12 that makes well over 600 HP. That should make for a pretty exciting open air driving experience.
Ferrari unveiled a new image gallery of their special edition 599 GTB HGTE. The handling package includes a modified set-up with stiffer springs and rear anti-roll bar as well as new calibration settings for the magnetorheological shock absorbers when the manettino is at its sportier settings. The ride height has also been lowered which in turn lowers the car’s centre of gravity. This combined with the new set-up helps improve body control. The package also includes specifically optimized tires featuring a compound that offers even better grip.
For a lot of us, seeing a Ferrari in the flesh elicits any number of reactions, however the most prevalent of those actions involves taking out our mobile phones and snapping a photo or two of the car with some element of ourselves in the frame as visual evidence that we were actually there.
The aura of the Prancing Horse is so intoxicating that at some point in our lives, all of us have secretly wished of owning one at some point or another.
Well, our dreams are about to come true – if we had a deep enough set of pockets of course. A Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano is being offered in an online auction with the proceeds going to benefit a charity that provides funding for young researches working on projects involving technological innovation.
You might wonder why someone would sell their Ferrari 599 GTB just so he can give away the money to charity, when you are Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo, you can do whatever you want.
Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher had the chance to get behind the wheel of Ferrari’s new 599 GTB Fiorano with the HGTE handling package. The former Scuderia Ferrari driver pushed the front engine GT car to its limits on the Ferrari test track that the car was named after, during one of the factory’s Pilota Ferrari driving courses.
The Handling GT Evoluzione package includes a lower, stiffer suspension, new tire compounds offering even higher levels of grip, modified magnetic suspension with new damper settings and an even higher performance exhaust for an even throatier note. The HGTE package also includes a number of styling touches that set it apart from the standard production car, including a more aggressive nose thanks to the new front grille, a set of proprietary 20 inch rims and excessive use of the wavy light weight black stuff throughout the interior.
This high performance handling version of the V12 super car is capable of lapping the Fiorano test track in only 1:26, that is just 1.5 seconds behind the factory tuned mid-engine F-430 Scuderia, which is the company’s track attack vehicle of choice. The extra handling will only cost you an additional $40,000 over the 599’s $240,000 base price, a small price to pay.
If Ferrari’s latest front engine V12 GT car, the 599 GTB is not enough super car for you, the Italian automaker is now offering an upgraded sports package that improves the handling and aerodynamics of the car named after the test track, for the additional cost of €28,382 ($39,000). Just like the DBS transponder watch, if you have the money to buy a 599, the extra green it takes to upgrade to the HGTE package should not be a problem.
The handling and aero package includes a modified suspension setup with stiffer springs and a thicker rear anti-roll bar as well as new calibrations for the magnetic shock absorbers for when the Manettino on the steering wheel has been turned to the sport setting. The 599’s center of gravity has been lowered thanks to the new suspension that also helps improve control of the 200 MPG super car. World class athletes wear the finest equipment on their feet, and tires are like the GTB’s shoes, so the Ferrari engineers have designed a set of tires featuring a special rubber compound that offers even more grip.
Although the Ferrari 599 GTB with HGTE isn’t quite the track special 599XX, we are pretty sure that it will be about as powerful a prancing horse that anyone will want to handle on the street.
Ferrari has been responsible for creating many great automotive machines throughout their existence. Most recently when the Italian sports car maker came out with their reincarnation of the front engine V12 Grand Tourer, the 599 GTB Fiorano, that it would be just as capable on a circuit as their F-40 boosted super Ferrari.
Can the 21st century GT car out perform a 20 year old super car? You will just have to watch the video to find out for yourself.
Revealed back in March at Geneva, the Ferrari 599 HGTE appeared to be much more than just a Fiorano with a set of new 5 spoke rims. Well after some recent testing, the HGTE equipped Ferrari was able to lap the Italian automaker’s Fiorano test track in just 1 minute and 26.5 seconds, only 1.5 seconds slower than the factory tuned F-430 Scuderia. Not bad considering the laws of physics govern the lightweight, mid engine V8 much differently compared to a front engine V12 powered GT car.
The Ferrari 599 HGTE features a modified suspension setup with stiffer springs and a larger rear anti-roll bar as well as new calibration settings to the magnetically controlled dampeners. The ride height has come down, lowering the car’s center of gravity; combined with the revised stiff stuff drastically improves body control. Like any athlete needs good rubber under their feet, so does the HGTE, offering specifically optimized tires made from a much softer compound that offers even better grip.
Are you ready to go Lamborghini hunting in your next 599 GTB Fiorano from Ferrari, well at least with the HGTE you’ll be able to embarrass them when the road turns twisty.
It’s not every day that you have the opportunity to witness two $100,000+ super cars crashing in to one another, but that is exactly what happened yesterday in Fu Zhou, China. An Audi R8 smashed into a Ferrari 599 GTB after a taxi suddenly stopped to pick up a passenger. While the Ferrari is pretty much in one piece, we cannot say the same for the Audi. Luckily both drivers suffered only minor injuries, the same cannot be said for the taxi driver if the Ferrari owner get ahold of him
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