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Outside the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo’s famous Casino Square, the crowds of tourists with camera phones seem ignorant of the fact that most motoring journalists don’t rate the looks of the 612 Scaglietti. They’re as happy to pose alongside the slightly ungainly 2+2 Ferrari as they are to cosy up with the F430 Spider and Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder sat on the other side of the valet parking zone. Read the rest of this entry »

The Ferrari F430 Scuderia, a lightweight version of the F430 coupe, goes on sale next spring.
The F430 Scuderia, which joins the F430 Coupe and Spyder already on the market, is powered by a 510-hp, 9000-rpm, 4.3-liter V8 engine that makes almost 30 horsepower more than the standard F430 engine. Ferrari says it can go from a dead stop to 62 mph in a mere 3.7 seconds. Read the rest of this entry »

You have to feel sorry for the Ferrari engineers and designers. Every time they succeed in producing an outstanding car, their next job is to improve on it.
This was the case for the 599 GTB Fiorano. The brief was to design a two-door, front mid-engined, rear wheel drive, 2-seater, luxury car with performance that betters that of the iconic F40. Oh, and it has to look stunning. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are lucky enough to be driving a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, you probably have the company’s automated manual F1 gearbox helping you swap the cogs. With its faster-than-Schumacher shifts, the F1 tranny can make just about anyone feel like a pro. Read the rest of this entry »

The new Ferrari California, 2+ convertible, had a very special “test-driver” behind its wheel the last few days as the Prancing Horse President Luca di Montezemolo put it through its paces over several laps at the Fiorano circuit. Read the rest of this entry »