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: 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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Ferrari reports fewer sales, more profit to prove strategy is working
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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Ferrari considering return to Le Mans racing in 2015
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
Filed under: Classics , Convertible , Performance , Wagon , Auctions , Ford , Ferrari , Luxury The changes happening at the Petersen Museum have been making the rounds in major press, but it probably won’t be until August 18, during Pebble Beach , when we get the full story on what’s happening; that’s where and when museum reps plan on announcing the way forward for the SoCal institution.
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Shelby Cobra, Mercedes 300SL and 1947 Woodie from Petersen Museum headed to auction
Filed under: Aftermarket , Videos , Ferrari Rule number one of modifying a car: When it comes time to sell, people want to pay for the car, and could care less how much you spent in the aftermarket. This is a lesson that the guys at Latitude Wheels in Miami are currently learning
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Ferrari 458 with $1M wheels still hasn’t found a buyer [w/video]
Filed under: Classics , Convertible , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Luxury It isn’t every day that the rarest of Ferrari models change hands. In fact, you can count your fingers to get the number of 275 GTB/4*S N.A.R.T
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Father’s ultra-rare Ferrari to leave family for a good cause
Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Ferrari , Humor , Russia , Racing Whoops. That’s a word nobody wants to hear in racing, and that’s especially true in Formula 1 , where the cars cost untold millions to design, develop, build and operate.
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F1 driver underestimates talent needed for wet-weather burnout
Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Europe , Videos , Ferrari , Celebrities , Luxury Fernando Alonso gave a wide-ranging interview to German television station RTL, the Spanish driver and German interviewer conducting the session in Italian, driving a special Italian car on very special German track. Among many answers – from the industriousness of his native Ovideo, Spain to where he relaxes – Alonso gives Ferrari an eight out of ten for the season, admitting they don’t have the fastest car but they have a complete car, and refuses to give himself a number, only saying that he is more complete as well than when he first entered. Beyond the normal-guy persona and wealth of topics, the 10-minute interview is neat for being able to watch Alonso hurl the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta over and around kerbs while he’s answering questions
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Fernando Alonso gives German TV interview driving Ferrari F12 at the Nordschleife
Filed under: Classics , Auctions , Ferrari , TV/Movies We like car auctions well enough, but often the high-end affairs are a bit too much like outdoor museums – very beautiful and very cold, and you’re not allowed to touch anything. A perfect case in point is the upcoming Mecum auction during the 2013 Pebble Beach weekend, which will feature the legendary replica Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder used in none other than Ferris Bueller’s Day Off . Only three were made.
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Ferrari California replica from Ferris Bueller is so choice
Filed under: Motorsports , Europe , Aston Martin , Audi , Chevrolet , Nissan , Porsche , Ferrari , Racing There was little usual about this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans – intermittent rain in the weeks before the race meant cars didn’t get on track as much as they wanted, and intermittent rain during the race meant cars went off track a lot more than they wanted.
Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Europe , Videos , Porsche , Ferrari , Celebrities We hope you have seven minutes to kill. RSR N
Filed under: Videos , Ferrari , Toys/Games Fresh from critical praise for the last installment in the series, Need For Speed: Most Wanted , Electronic Arts has formally announced that Need For Speed Rivals will be the next title in the series.
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Need For Speed Rivals announced for Xbox One and Playstation 4 [w/video]
Filed under: Aftermarket , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari , Luxury The Mansory Stallone you see above isn’t the first such transmogrification of a Prancing Horse.
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Mansory Stallone makes a man out of Ferrari F12
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Design/Style It’s been a couple of years since we last heard about Holger Schubert and his award-winning office/garage , but it looks like the city of Los Angeles, thankfully, did not force him to tear down the bridge that gives his Ferrari 512 BBi arguably the nicest parking spot in California. Petrolicious is back again with another well-done video, which finally introduces us to Schubert as well as his lust-worthy Ferrari. As for the structure, it is half garage and half work space with an office, couch, bookshelf and television, and one hell of a view
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Meet the man whose house is designed around his car
Filed under: Motorsports , Europe , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , McLaren This year’s Formula One season might qualify as being just as crazy as last year’s, only it’s a different kind of crazy. Instead of a new winner every Sunday, how the winner actually manages to take the victory is the mystery, and just when we thought the season might have settled into a groove regarding team performance, here comes the Spanish Grand Prix to remind us that we don’t know anything until the race has been run. There were many similarities to past weekends to being this one: Mercedes -AMG Petronas showed awesome one-lap pace, Fernando Alonso did well enough in qualifying to get fifth on the grid but talked up the race pace of the Ferrari , Kimi R
Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Performance , Auctions , Ferrari , Celebrities , Luxury This is what you get as your first car after you’ve just passed your driver’s test at the age of 25: a 1965 Ferrari 330GT 2+2 Coupe. Of course, that’s assuming your name also happens to be John Lennon and you’ve just helped record Ticket to Ride with the rest of your Beatles cronies. When news of Lennon getting a driver’s license made the newspapers in England, luxury car makers parked outside his mansion with offerings and this is the one he chose, painted Azzuro Blue with a blue interior.
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John Lennon’s first car being sold at auction
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , China , Europe , Plants/Manufacturing , Ferrari , Middle East While most automakers are clawing and scratching for every possible sale, it sounds like Ferrari is content in losing a few potential customers in the name of better exclusivity and higher profits. Autocar reports that Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo recently stated that the Italian automaker hopes to sell fewer than 7,000 units globally in 2013 compared to last year’s tally of 7,318.
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Ferrari looking to become even more exclusive
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Europe , Videos , Aston Martin , Bentley , BMW , Lamborghini , Mercedes-Benz , Nissan , Porsche , Ferrari , UK , Luxury In what must have looked and sounded to motorists on the M6 like an invasion of The Swarm, a parade of 50 enthusiast gems leaving a charity event were caught shooting down the on-ramp and merging into traffic. There were plenty of Porsches joining the 959 and Ducktail above, Aston Martins going back to the badboy V8 of the last millennium, a Ferrari Testarossa , a TVR and numerous other Easter eggs. There were not, however, plenty of turn signals, with someone counting just five among the fifty engaging in proper use of the blinker
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Supercar parade entering highway is mesmerizing
Filed under: Performance , Europe , Government/Legal , Lamborghini , Maserati , Earnings/Financials , Ferrari , Luxury Italy is the wound that continues to drain blood from the body financial of Italian supercar and sports car makers. The wound was opened by the country’s various financial police who decided to get serious about superyacht-owning and supercar-driving tax cheats a few years ago, by noting their registrations and checking their incomes. When it was found that a rather high percentage of exotic toy owners had claimed a rather low annual income – certain business owners were found to be declaring less income than their employees – the owners began dumping their cars and prospective buyers declined to buy
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Why Italians are no longer buying supercars
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Safety , Videos , Ferrari , India Earlier this month, we reported on a video that was circulating the internet which showed a young boy driving a Ferrari F430 on a street in India while other children watched and two adults recorded the whole thing. And that was all that we knew at the time. Now, there is more information about the car, the kids and their parents thanks to an article in the Daily Mail
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Ferrari-driving kid’s parents charged by Indian police [w/video]
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Ferrari 458 Italia becomes most expensive prize ever on Price Is Right
Filed under: Classics , Videos , Ferrari If you’ve ever driven a vintage vehicle on a regular basis, you know the process from getting from point A to point B is a bit more convoluted than simply hopping in and going. There are rituals to observe, checklists to run through and processes to address before ever touching the ignition. Neglect any one of a number of small tasks and you’re likely to find yourself on the side of the road.
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Ferrari Lusso ownership will add some time to your morning commute
Filed under: Performance , Government/Legal , Hatchback , Ferrari , Middle East Supercars are a sulky lot by nature.
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Dubai police add Ferrari FF to keep Lambo company
