Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari Though Niki Lauda may today be chairman of the Mercedes F1 team, anyone who’s seen Rush will know that he’s inexorably tied to Ferrari . And it’s that bond that Ferrari has celebrated with this special-edition 458 Italia .
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Ferrari pays tribute to Niki Lauda with one-off 458
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 , 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: 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: 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: 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 , 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: 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: 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: 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: Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ferrari , Rumormill McLaren , Ferrari and Lamborghini helped make this year’s Geneva Motor Show one of the most exciting in recent memory, but the LaFerrari might be a little further away from production than its McLaren P1 hypercar rival.
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Ferrari still finalizing LaFerrari hardware? [w/videos]
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 , Europe , Infiniti , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Racing , McLaren Just like at Silverstone last weekend , the German Formula One Grand Prix started with Lewis Hamilton putting his Mercedes-AMG Petronas on pole. The only thing missing at the pointy end of the grid was his teammate Nico Rosberg , who lined up beside him in England but back in 11th in Germany because of a team error in qualifying.
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Race Recap: 2013 German Grand Prix is old beginnings, new endings [spoilers]
Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Lotus , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Canada , Racing There were rain and wind and sun, sometimes all at once. There was the Wall of Champions. There was nothing happening in first place and nothing happening back in sixth during the race, but everywhere else – from the time the weekend began – it was surprises, passes, spins, more passing, flying carbon fiber and finally a couple more last-minute surprises
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Race Recap: Canadian F1 Grand Prix is one story with a thousand dramas
Filed under: Concept Cars , Classics , Performance , Etc. , Europe , Bugatti , Ferrari , Design/Style , Luxury On this past long weekend while Americans were celebrating Memorial Day, the very American Ralph Lauren was cleaning up tidily at this year’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in northern Italy on the western shore of Lake Como
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2013 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este dominated by Ralph Lauren’s Bugatti [w/video]
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 , Hybrid , Performance , Etc. , Videos , Ferrari , Design/Style , Luxury The Enzo had no companion watch, but its successor, the Ferrari LaFerrari , does. Created by Hublot “entirely in parallel with the car” and “alongside the Ferrari teams,” the MP-05 LaFerrari tribute watch is a similar test of how much gobsmacking gadgetry can be packed into a chassis.
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Amazing LaFerrari tribute watch more intricate than the real thing [w/video]
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
Filed under: Videos , Ferrari , Humor A good rule to live by is that you should never mess with another man’s car, but Roman Atwood learned that you probably shouldn’t even pretend with another man’s ride… especially when it’s a Ferrari 360 Modena .
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Pranked angry Ferrari owner says urine trouble now, man!
Filed under: Motorsports , China , Infiniti , Lotus , Ferrari , Renault , Racing , McLaren Formula One fans and commentators have spent the three weeks since the Malaysian Grand Prix discussing two things more than any other: that pass, and tires.
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Race Recap: 2013 Chinese Grand Prix a test of tires, carnage and a fight for second [spoilers]
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Etc. , Ferrari , Design/Style At its recent Geneva Motor Show unveiling , we couldn’t help but spend a good long time gawking at the new LaFerrari supercar.
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LaFerrari 3D model adds depth to Maranello’s new supercar
Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Europe , Videos , Ferrari , Luxury Air Malta recently worked up a little stunt that pitted an Airbus A320 against a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta in a drag race to raise funds for charity. It’s easy to forget just how quick something the size of a jetliner can be, but watching the video below shows us just where the big passenger aircraft stands when it comes to sprinting down a runway
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Ferrari F12 races Air Malta A320 jet
Filed under: Hybrid , Performance , Geneva Motor Show , Videos , Ferrari If, for some reason, you feel like we’ve left anything out of our coverage of the exciting new LaFerrari unveiled today in Geneva , don’t fret – Ferrari has us covered.
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LaFerrari, meet YouTube. YouTube, LaFerrari
Filed under: Performance , Europe , Earnings/Financials , Ferrari , Luxury Ferrari has nabbed the honor of becoming the world’s most powerful brand from Apple . According to Brand Finance, the Italian automaker earned the highest rating among all brands on the Global 500 list despite being worth considerably less than its competition. But the ranking takes into account more than just a company’s bottom line.
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Ferrari rated world’s most powerful brand ahead of Apple
Filed under: Motorsports , Audi , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Australia , Racing For the last two years, Audi has won what’s called “The ultimate Aussie endurance race,” the Bathurst 12-Hour event at Mt. Panorama, reverentially known as “The Mountain.” It did so with factory-backed versions of the R8 LMS Ultra and factory-backed drivers sent over for the sole purpose of taking the checkered flag at the 3.861-mile course and then taking the silverware back to Ingolstadt. Erebus Motorsport, owned by property developer Betty Klimenko, is 18 months old.
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Race Recap: 2013 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12-Hour race a feast of water, wrecks and yellow flags
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Etc. , Videos , Ferrari Tax the Rich, the YouTubers who seem to have sprung from some mischievous corner of the V for Vendetta universe, have somehow acquired a Ferrari Enzo for their latest trick.
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Watch this Ferrari Enzo get thrown around on farm roads
