Filed under: Classics , Auctions , Ferrari Classic car auctions take place in locations all around the world, from Monte Carlo and Maranello to Monterey and Manhattan. Or so you might think, but last week marked the first time a major classic car auction took place in the Big Apple in over a decade. And boy did it return with a bang
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Talbot-Lago Teardrop Cabrio sells for $7m, Ferrari 250 LM for $14m
Filed under: Classics , Auctions , Ferrari , Racing If you’re one of the very fortunate souls that has $12 to $15 million burning a very large hole in your pocket, we’ve found the perfect way to liberate yourself from the burden of so much money – buy this Ferrari , which is being put up for auction. It’s a supremely rare Ferrari 250 LM, the 24th member of a 32-car run, that rolled off the assembly line on what we imagine was a brilliant, sunny Italian summer’s day in July of 1964. Officially known as Chassis 6107, this 250 LM is rare because unlike its brothers, it wasn’t originally bought to be a race car
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1964 Ferrari 250 LM expected to net $12-15 million at RM’s NY auction
Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Sedan , Performance , Wagon , Hatchback , Audi , BMW , Chevrolet , Ford , Jaguar , Mercedes-Benz , Mini , Nissan , Porsche , Ferrari , Luxury Road & Track recently staged its first annual Performance Car of the Year test, pitting 13 new and updated performance cars against each other on track, then graduating the top six to a road test before picking a winner. Additionally, the magazine staff picked the best automobiles of the year in eight categories. But first, let’s cover the PCotY segment
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Road & Track names its 2013 Performance Car of the Year
Filed under: Motorsports , Ferrari , Toys/Games With all the excitement over Forza Motorsport 5 and Gran Turismo 6 , it’s easy to forget that there’s another racing game from an even older franchise coming out. The latest Need For Speed installment, Rivals , is set to hit stores November 15 (this Friday) for the Playstation 4 , November 19 for PS3 and XBox 360 , and November 22 for the XBox One . As part of the run up to the launch, we have a great look at all the new Ferrari content for the new title, which marks only the second time the Italian marque has been in an NFS game.
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Ferrari makes its return to Need For Speed: Rivals in a big way
Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Videos , Ferrari , Racing Tax The Rich , the YouTube channel that exists mainly to terrorize ultra-rare, ultra-expensive cars like the Jaguar XJ220 , Ferrari Enzo and Rolls-Royce Phantom , has come out with its first video in two months, starring one of the rarest Ferraris of the past 40 years – the 288 GTO . Now, by Tax The Rich standards, its treatment of the 288 is better than what the Enzo or the Rolls (especially) got in their videos. The most cringe-worthy parts are in the very beginning, before transitioning to actual roads (yes, we know the 288 was originally meant as a Group B rally car, but that makes zipping about on grass and dirt in a very rare Ferrari no less difficult to watch)
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Tax The Rich returns with reckless driving in a Ferrari 288 GTO
Filed under: Coupe , Ferrari , Racing Want to drive an eight-cylinder, mid-engined Ferrari ? Assuming you can get your lucky little hands on one, you can drive a 458 Italia , 458 Spider or new 458 Speciale on the street. But the real action is where the road ends and the racetrack begins
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Ferrari launches upgraded 458 Challenge Evoluzione
Filed under: Spy Photos , Coupe , Ferrari , Racing Ferrari makes road cars, it makes racecars, and it makes road cars into racecars.
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Ferrari testing 458 Challenge Evoluzione at Mugello
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Videos , Hatchback , Aston Martin , Audi , Mercedes-Benz , Mini , Porsche , Ferrari , UK , Luxury , Comparisons Every year Evo stages its Car of the Year test, bringing the best performance cars in the world to one location for an epic shootout. This year the magazine pitted eight CotY finalists against each other on Route Napoleon in Southern France – Evo claims it’s the “best road in the world” – and then proceeded to nitpick the smallest of faults on each car until the winner could be named. You see, this year’s lineup of machines was just so good that only one car obviously wasn’t CotY material from the get-go
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Get lost in Evo’s sublime 2013 Car of the Year testing
Filed under: Auctions , Ferrari , Design/Style How much would you pay for a Dino ? Although this sub-brand was supposed to offer lower-cost alternatives to more expensive Ferraris, a 246 GTS model with “chairs and flares” can fetch big bucks. The later, more angular 308 GT4 is less desirable, but the one above just sold for $250,000.
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Totaled Ferrari Dino sculpture sold for $250k
Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Middle East , Racing Both championships have been claimed this year, with Sebastian Vettel taking the Driver Championship and Infiniti Red Bull Racing the Constructor’s. But there’s no skunk rule in Formula One , so the last three races of the schedule are going on as scheduled.
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Race Recap: At the Abu Dhabi grand prix, the caravan chases a mirage
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Racing Believe it or not, unloading a car from a transport vehicle is a delicate science. It’s alarmingly easy to damage a car in the tight, elevated confines of a dedicated car hauler, but as these gentlemen at the Monterey car week found out, even getting a car off a flatbed comes with its own unique set of challenges
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How not to unload the 1 of 1 Ferrari P4/5 Competizione from a trailer
Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , India , Racing , McLaren The smog around the Buddh International Circuit got so bad over the weekend that the FIA had to change the practice sessions. Then the soft tires that Pirelli brought to be the options were found to degrade so quickly that teams had to change their qualifying and race strategies
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Race Recap: 2013 Indian Grand Prix mostly calm with chances of Championships
Filed under: Classics , Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Celebrities , Specialty In the pantheon of 80s pop culture, few cars have such provenance as the Ferrari 308 . Sure, vehicular icons like the DeLorean and Pontiac Trans Am (especially in time machine and KITT guise) made us swoon back in the day, but there’s something about the bright red Italian that makes it stand out; perhaps it is the 308’s performance credibility, at least when compared to other memorable cars of its ilk. Our fondness for Magnum PI’s Ferrari 308 is shared by Oscar Verdugo, who’s featured in the video you’ll see below.
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This is what it’s like to drive Magnum PI’s Ferrari 308
Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Performance , China , Videos , Ferrari More than 600 Ferrari models, representing every era of the famed automaker’s production, celebrated 30 years of presence in Hong Kong with a gathering at the Asia World Expo this past weekend.
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Ferrari celebrates at Hong Kong’s Asia World Expo
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Luxury , Racing Ferrari has built a monster with its F12 Berlinetta , a V12-powered grand tourer that has the looks of a supermodel and the firepower of a small country.
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Drive goes sideways, shreds tires in a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Ferrari You remember that batch of patent drawings we brought you a couple of weeks ago showing an unspecified Ferrari coupe? The interwebs were ablaze in speculation over what the car depicted could be, and we’ve been watching them all until we landed on the one that seems to make the most sense.
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Ferrari patent suggests one-off SP FFX
Filed under: Motorsports , BMW , Chevrolet , Porsche , Ferrari , Racing , SRT The 16th Petit Le Mans Powered By Mazda , in the final year of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr
Filed under: Motorsports , Japan , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Racing , McLaren Japan’s Suzuka circuit is a great track that all the drivers love, but it doesn’t usually provide the most thrilling, head-to-head racing. Where it does excel, however, is with surprises and “What just happened there?!” moments, and this year it was no different. It started with Mark Webber in his Infiniti Red Bull Racing out-qualifying his teammate Sebastian Vettel for the first time this year.
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Race Recap: 2013 Japanese Grand Prix flips several scripts [spoilers]
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Europe , Ferrari , Design/Style , Luxury The FF is quite a departure for Ferrari – it’s the company’s first hatchback and all-wheel-drive vehicle – so it isn’t surprising that it rubs some people the wrong way, even if the car itself is very good. Well, judging from these patent drawings of what looks like a FF coupe filed with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), Ferrari has plans to build one. We’re not sure if Ferrari is planning a production run, however, and it’s very possible this is a one-off special being built for a very rich customer, a la Eric Clapton and his 458 Italia .
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Ferrari FF coupe plans found in European patent application
Filed under: Classics , Etc. , Government/Legal , Cadillac , Ferrari , Design/Style We’re set to record Autoblog Podcast #353 tonight, and you can check out the topics below, drop us your questions and comments via our Q&A module, and don’t forget to subscribe to the Autoblog Podcast in iTunes if you haven’t already done so.
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Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , South Korea , Racing , McLaren The end of qualifying for the 2013 Korean Formula One Grand Prix left us with five pairs: two chassis each from Infiniti Red Bull Racing , Mercedes-AMG Petronas , Lotus , Ferrari and Sauber . Yes, Sauber
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Race Recap: 2013 Korean F1 Grand Prix crazy enough for Psy [spoilers]
Filed under: Car Buying , Motorsports , Classics , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari , Racing Records are made to be broken, and it seems that one may have just been snapped again. An Italian website is reporting that a Ferrari 250 GTO , owned by American collector Paul Pappalardo, recently sold for $52 million . Now, this is far from confirmed – Pappalardo responded to questions about the sale saying, “I do not confirm these things, I have no comment about!” – and if it’s a private sale, it’s unlikely that we’ll ever know the exact amount of the transaction
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Ferrari 250 GTO may have set new sale record at $52M
Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Chevrolet , Porsche , Ferrari According to the crew at Motor Trend , we should think of the video below “as an addendum to Best Driver’s Car,” a test the magazine put together that elevated the 2013 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S above all others in the category of driving joy. It seems the brand-new 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray wasn’t able to take part in the magazine’s official test, and neither was the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta . And so Motor Trend did the only logical thing: It procured both the ‘Vette and Prancing Horse as soon as it could, and put them both on track with the Driver’s Car-winning 911.
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Motor Trend hits Laguna Seca with Ferrari F12, Chevy Corvette, Porsche 911
Filed under: Motorsports , Spy Photos , Coupe , Hybrid , Performance , Ferrari , Racing Ferrari might have jumped the gun debuting the LaFerrari hypercar at the Geneva Motor Show , judging by these spy shots. There have already been rumors that the nearly 1,000-horsepower hybrid still needed some finalizing , but it seems really quite odd that we’re seeing cars running with camo six months after the official debut
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LaFerrari still being honed at Nürburgring
Filed under: Motorsports , Plants/Manufacturing , Ferrari Ferrari is not a company used to being behind the curve, but if you’ve been wondering how the Scuderia has lost so much territory on the Formula One circuit to a relative newcomer like Red Bull , part of the answer could come down to its wind tunnel. Seriously, the wind tunnel? Yes, the wind tunnel.
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Ferrari reopens wind tunnel after 18-month refurb
Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Renault , Racing , McLaren The Singapore Formula One Grand Prix is the Monaco GP of the Orient – a weekend known more for its glamour and time-slot than on-track action, with a temporary circuit that punishes every mistake, usually terminally.
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Race Recap: Singapore Grand Prix is about a safety car and submission
Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Hybrid , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Racing What could possibly be better than a Ferrari LaFerrari running at full clip on the Italian brand’s Fiorano test track? The answer is obviously two LaFerraris, both doing hot laps. So far as we know, this is the first time we’ve had an unadulterated listen – outside of the car , that is – to the latest Ferrari hypercar when it’s being ran hard.
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Twin LaFerraris roar around Fiorano
Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Ferrari , Toys/Games , Celebrities We’ll cop to the fact that we might be a bit overly excited about the upcoming F1 2013 video game, specifically the Classic Edition . Codemasters has released umpteen trailers for the title already, mostly pretty cool ones, with cars lapping classic Formula One tracks that are set to be included in the fun
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F1 2013 Classic Edition to make Lauda’s 1976 Ferrari playable
Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Ferrari , Toys/Games , Celebrities We’ll cop to the fact that we might be a bit overly excited about the upcoming F1 2013 video game, specifically the Classic Edition .
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F1 2013 Classic Edition to make Lauda’s 1976 Ferrari playable
Filed under: Aftermarket , 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari , Specialty , Design/Style Mansory has, yet again, taken a supercar and turned the dial up to 11. Or maybe 12 or 13
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Mansory La Revoluzione shows at least a little restraint
