Ferrari "620GT": Let's see if we're close.

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Ferrari is teasing the 599 replacement:

While we have no clue as to what the 599 replacement will be named, here are our educated guesses:

6.3 liter V12 Normally Aspirated.
740HP with 80% of torque available from 2500rpm.(GTO:670hp)

No carbon fiber chassis but wide use of lightweight materials keeps weight to 1525Kg/3360 lb (GTO:1605/3540)

0-100km/h = 3.1s (599 GTO=3.35s)
0-200km/h = 8.5s
vmax 340 km/h, 211mph (GTO: 335km/h-208mph)

About twice the downforce of the 599 at 200km/h.

Two seconds faster than an Enzo on the Fiorano test track.

Looks are described as something of the one-77 mixed with the FF and the 458.
Lower shorter and thinner than the 599.

price in the 300,000Eu range.

Official presentation will be on the 29th.

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wraps are allowing car owners to push the boundaries of taste to new frontiers...
This Ferrari 599 was photographed by HFO in Shanghai recently





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Will Eric Clapton get his V12 458 Italia?

(photo: Phillip Pluecke)

Or would that be a 4612 Leyla?
Anyway, there is this rumor, you may have heard about it, that long time Ferrari fan Capt. Slowhand has asked Maranello to make him a 458 Italia with a v12 engine from a 599GTB. Ferrari is said to be "thinking about it".

True or just a rumor? We say do it: 620HP in a chassis that is faster than the Enzo around Fiorano? That can only result in a massive win.

Auto Sport und Motor recently tested a 458 and came up with these numbers:
0-100km/h (62mph) 3.4
0-200km/h (124mph) 10.4
0-300km/h (186mph) 32.4 (the Carrera GT did it in 34.2 and 997 GT2 in 35.4)
Weight: 1544 kg-3404 lbs




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Is Puma renting 599 GTBs as billboards?

West Side Highway, New York City. By AC

Ooops, wrecking the company car...

It can happen to anyone and with the recent turnaround at Fiat, I'm guessing Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne will get a break at the Maranello body shop.

Described as a "banal highway accident" Friday on the A1 between Rothrist and Gunzgen in Switzerland, it resulted in the red Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano rear ending a Renault guilty apparently of having better brakes. Nobody was hurt.

No word if Flavio Briatore used the incident to emphasize the French automaker's superior technology in Fernando Alonso's eyes.

(photo Ansa)