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: 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 , 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: 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 , 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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]