599 Replacement

It has a great deal of Alfa 8c in its looks.

 

So there isnt a 599 replacement info thread in here, i figured it would be good to have one in which everyone can post info about it... As we know from Car and Driver the car will be presented in Geneva and it will have 700hp. Here is the article

From: www.Caranddriver.com

We revealed a little earlier today that Ferrari’s 2012 successor for its Enzo supercar will be a carbon-fiber missile powered by a V-12 mounted midships and augmented by a hybrid system.

In the same interview, Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa also confirmed that the replacement for the 599GTB—also scheduled to arrive in 2012—will retain its front-engine arrangement and will be constructed not of carbon composites, but largely from aluminum alloys. But, we asked, must the car have at least 700 hp to match the new Lamborghini Aventador?

“We are selling cars, not horsepower,” said Felisa. Then in what we must assume was feigned ignorance, Felisa asked exactly how much horsepower the Aventador makes. We told him 700, which is the Lamborghini-provided figure. (We convert that number, which is measured in PS, to 691 SAE net horsepower.)

Felisa’s reply: “We’ll have more than 700 horsepower.” He paused long enough to thwack us on the shoulder before continuing, “but it’s not because of the Aventador.”

The current 599GTB makes 612 hp and the GTO version made 661, so 700 isn’t too far off. Ferrari earlier indicated in official future-product plans that the 599 replacement will be a more extreme performance machine than the current car and also, of course, more expensive. We expect the car to appear at next March’s Geneva auto show.

 

A working link to the article..

http://blog.caranddriver.com/ferrari-ceo-599-replacement-will-pound-out-more-than-700-hp-but-not-because-of-the-aventador/

There are sketches suggesting that the car will be a 599GTB with an FF front, more or less... Dont you think that Ferrari will take a bigger leap designwise?

 

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=343926

another thread on the subject

 

Has anyone seen this. I kind of like it
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Not so sure, myself.