Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Ferrari The so-called “silly season” in Formula One conjured up all kinds of rumors, and most of them revolved around Kimi Raikkonen . Would the 2007 World Champion stay at Lotus ? Would he switch to Red Bull to replace Mark Webber

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Kimi Raikkonen returns to Ferrari

Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari , Racing This is the Ferrari 458 Speciale , and while its name might underwhelm, its performance and lineage more than make up for it. The successor to the proud line of hot, higher-performance, mid-engined Ferraris like the 360 Challenge Stradale and 430 Scuderia , the 458 Speciale is blessed with a 596-horsepower, 4.5-liter V8 and the ability to skip to 62 miles per hour in three seconds. It also comes with a not-so-subtle racing stripe, which we like

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Ferrari 458 Speciale is our Frankfurt fantasy [w/video]

Filed under: Performance , Videos , Ferrari , UK Chris Harris one of the most beloved of British automotive journalists, and yet Ferrari doesn’t seem inclined to take him off its black list.

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Chris Harris wrings out Ferrari F40 and F50 on track

Filed under: Motorsports , Europe , Infiniti , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Racing , McLaren The low-downforce, 5.793-kilometer circuit in Monza, Italy is known as the Temple of Speed, but only a few of the qualifying performances would have clued you into it. Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber in the Infiniti Red Bull Racing chassis’ lined up first and second, and it didn’t seem like Vettel had to work too hard to do so. Nico H

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Ferrari cuts Toronto lawyer a deal to replace his flooded California [w/video]

Filed under: Motorsports , Europe , Infiniti , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , McLaren It’s been four weeks since we last saw a Formula One race, when Lewis Hamilton improbably put his Mercedes – AMG Petronas in P1 in Hungary .

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Race Recap: Belgian Grand Prix is new skirmishes, same war [spoilers]

Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Performance , Europe , Videos , Ferrari , Police/Emergency , Luxury We’re used to seeing fancy cars gifted to or bought by certain international police forces today, but the story of this 1962 Ferrari 250 GTE goes well beyond a gift.

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How this Ferrari 250 GTE became Rome’s most famous police car

Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , Europe , Videos , Ferrari , Racing With the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix happening this weekend, Shell reminded a few guests what the Spa-Francorchamps track and Belgian countryside were like in 1955. That year the petroleum company made a 30-minute movie about the grand prix – this is back when the track was called the Francorchamps National Circuit, near the town of Spa, and a list of its important corners didn’t include a mention of Eau Rouge – where it was doing the same thing it still does today: working on fuels and lubricants via its technical partnership with Ferrari .

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1955 Belgian GP movie tells the story of Spa

Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Specialty , Luxury , Racing As is the specs weren’t enough, Ferrari is helping us get ready for the reveal of the 458 Speciale at the Frankfurt Motor Show with a short teaser video. You won’t get much in the way of a full-body modeling session, naturally, but there are plenty of close-ups of its intakes, scoops, vanes, seriously racy bucket seats and lots and lots of carbon fiber

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Ferrari releases teaser video for 458 Speciale

Filed under: Hybrid , Performance , Technology , Ferrari Confirming what we’d long suspected , the hybrid powertrain in the Ferrari LaFerrari was not a one-time thing. “I don’t believe in the electric cars, but I strongly believe in hybrids,” Ferrari boss Luca Cordero di Montezemolo tells Bloomberg

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Luca doesn’t believe in electric cars, but Ferrari will build more hybrids

Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari When the doors open at the Frankfurt Motor Show in a few weeks, there’ll be loads of new cars and new versions of existing ones. And as far as the latter category goes at least, this will undoubtedly be what show-goers will look forward to most. What we have here is the Ferrari 458 Speciale – the successor to the 360 Challenge Stradale and 430 Scuderia, and the hard-core version of the 458 Italia

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Ferrari 458 Speciale speeds toward Frankfurt

Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , BMW , Bugatti , Chevrolet , Ferrari , Racing The entry list for all of the events in this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion totaled 15 single-spaced pages long. That’s explains how the field for this past weekend’s Trans-Am race contained 41 cars, which is a larger field than ever competed in a real Trans-Am race.

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2013 Monterey Motorsports Reunion

Filed under: Car Buying , Motorsports , Classics , Performance , Auctions , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Luxury , Racing , McLaren RM Auctions ‘ two-day event during the Monterey car week is pretty much a matter of appetizer and main course. Friday night’s appetizer saw a trio of multi-million-dollar Ferraris, along with a pre-war Mercedes-Benz and a Jaguar D-Type. You can read all about those beauties right here .

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Second day of RM’s Monterey auction continues the million dollar madness

Filed under: Performance , Auctions , Misc. Auto Shows , Ferrari , Luxury , Racing In the charged atmosphere at day two of RM’s Monterey auctions, a record-setting sum of money changed hands in exchange for one of the most exclusive Ferraris of all time

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1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 NART Spider sells for incredible $27.5 million

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2013 Quail Motorsports Gathering wows with modern masterpieces

Filed under: Car Buying , Classics , Performance , Auctions , Jaguar , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Luxury , Racing RM Auctions is one of several houses holding auctions during the Monterey weekend, and Friday night’s festivities got quite pricey. Seven-figure vehicles were not at all uncommon during the first day of the two-day event, with the 1953 Ferrari 375 MM Spider, seen above, crossing the block for $9,075,000. Other big earners included a pair of rare Ferraris, a 1950 166 MM Barchetta and a 1955 750 Monza Spider , which took $3,080,000 and $4,070,000, respectively.

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Filed under: Motorsports , Lotus , Ferrari , Rumormill Kimi Raikkonen , easily one of our favorite current drivers in Formula 1 , may be making a move from Lotus to Ferrari , according to a Finnish tabloid called Ilta-Sanomat. Raikkonen, who won the driver’s championship in 2007 with the Italian brand, is in high demand and is also rumored to have options on the table from Red Bull and his current team.

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Kimi Raikkonen moving to Ferrari?

Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari Hennessey Performance Engineering, hot off the heels of its Bugatti Veyron-crushing Venom GT , set its sights on modifying one of the finer Ferrari models. The resulting HPE700 Twin Turbo 458 is a badder, faster 458 Italia with a twin-turbo upgrade that adds 168 horsepower to the already potent 4.5-liter V8

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Hennessey twin-turbo Ferrari 458 boasts 738 hp, 0-60 in 2.8 seconds

Filed under: Etc. , Ferrari The first Shell V-Power Ultimate Enthusiast contest was held last year and sent finalists to a VIP experience at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, while the grand prize winner went to Maranello, Italy for some intimate time with Ferrari

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Shell Ultimate Automotive Enthusiast contest returns to send winner to Barrett-Jackson and Maranello

Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari Fernando Alonso is quite cool behind the wheel, as evidenced by an earlier video where he gave a full interview while actively hooning a Ferrari F12 around the N

Filed under: Government/Legal , Plants/Manufacturing , Technology , BMW , Volkswagen , Ferrari , South America Bloomberg Markets is reporting that BMW , Volkswagen and Ferrari have been using tungsten ore sourced from Colombia’s FARC rebel terrorists.

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Bloomberg: BMW, Ferrari, VW cars use tungsten mined by terrorists

Filed under: Performance , Hatchback , Ferrari , New Car Reviews The World’s Fastest Four-Passenger is Frickin’ Fabulous “I miss my mommy.” Those frightened words floated from the mouth of a five-year-old boy strapped snugly into a booster seat in the backseat of the Ferrari FF I was piloting. Moments earlier, his father had allowed me to take him, and his two brothers, for their first ride in a supercar, and I had apparently failed miserably. I craned my neck and moved slightly to the right, in an attempt to see him in the rearview mirror, before I asked with a cautionary tone, “What did you just say?” My mind raced during the next few seconds of silence.

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2013 Ferrari FF [w/video]

Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Racing The sexy Ferrari P4/5 Competizione, a cross between the lightweight F430 Scuderia and the race-only F430 GT2 with special Pininfarina bodywork, spent some time in Europe notching a few race victories. But it finally has made its way back to the US and into owner Jim Glickenhaus’ collection, where it met its sister car and inspiration, the original P4/5

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Glickenhaus’ FIA championship-winning P4/5 Competizione comes home [w/video]

Filed under: Classics , Auctions , Ferrari The New York Times’ Wheels blog has a really interesting story on a pair of Ferraris that are set to be auctioned off in Monterey during the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance . While the two cars are similar on the surface, their differing histories and Ferrari’s attitude towards one of them has led to a sort of experimental auction process. On the one hand, we have one of ten 1967 275 GTB/4 NART Spiders , in the classic Rosso Corsa and appearing at RM Auctions and seen above.

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Ferrari vs. Ferrari: Cut convertibles unloved by collectors?

Filed under: Earnings/Financials , Ferrari Ferrari’s angle of emphasizing exclusivity by limiting deliveries is appearing to bear fruit. The company posted a 7.1-percent increase in revenues to 1.7 billion Euros ($2.2 billion at today’s exchange rates) during the first half of 2013

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Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Luxury The Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 was the automaker’s first sports car with a V8 mounted amidships, and that formula quickly became the Italian automaker’s bread and butter. The 308 in the name denotes a 3.0-liter V8, but for the Italian market, where a tax was imposed on cars with engines larger than two liters, Ferrari decided to de-bore the V8 to avoid the tax

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Petrolicious gets super Seventies in a Ferrari Dino 208 GT4

Filed under: Concept Cars , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Design/Style For every finished vehicle design we see, there are probably hundreds of drawings and models that have long since been discarded.

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LaFerrari design secrets explored at Ferrari museum

Filed under: Motorsports , Ferrari Rumors are swirling that Ferrari may be contemplating a return to Le Mans racing as soon as 2015. Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport reports the Italian automaker may apply the development of a new 1.6-liter turbocharged V6 engine for Formula One to an LMP1 car for Le Mans , and have it ready for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in two years. This follows hints made by Scuderia Ferrari CEO Stefano Domenicali last month that the newly developed F1 engine could be used for ” some interesting projects .” Ferrari has a history of success in Le Mans racing, though it hasn’t won the big endurance outright since 1965.

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Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari , Racing Lamborghini announced a new Gallardo model today, the all-wheel-drive LP 570-4 Squadra Corse, and it’s almost identical to the LP 570-4 Super Trofeo single-series race car. Its world premiere will be held at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The street-legal Squadra Corse shares key components with the Super Trofeo – both of which are based on the Gallardo Superleggera – including the 570-horsepower V10, carbon fiber rear wing and removable engine hood made in the same material.

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Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Squadra Corse brings one-make series to the road

Filed under: Motorsports , Ferrari , Racing Luca Cordero di Montezemolo does not strike us as the kind of person we’d want to cross. We imagine the Chairman of Ferrari as sort of like an automotive Don Corleone, a thought that is further confirmed when we hear about the aftermath of last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso made some unsubstantiated remarks that have angered his team, with The Daily Mail reporting that when asked after the race what he wanted for his birthday, the Spaniard responded “Someone else’s car.” And while no one seems to know exactly what was said, it was enough to prompt a personal phone call from the boss of Ferrari on Alonso’s birthday for a dressing down

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Ferrari chairman ticked off by Alonso