This happened yesterday in Hong Kong . 2012 Model on its way back after service . Weather was fine , not hot .Total loss. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is a very odd incident and seldom happens to a car as new as that , especially just after full service. An on board fire extinguisher might help provided that there is time to open the bonnet . But I am not sure whether the lock of engine bonnet is mechanical or electronic .
There've been a few '12s that have caught fire in the news. There is no conclusive evidence that I am aware of that links a common problem.
Ferrari only makes about 7000 cars a year, so if one or two cars catch fire per year, this is really scary.
$5.5M, eh? Can I get the insurance money and send him a replacement? The low production numbers are part and parcel to why there's an occasional catastrophic problem with early cars in the field. 458's just a couple years earlier had fire problems with the glue in the wheel wells, I believe.
That's HKD 5.5 million not USD 5.5 million. With current exchange rates that's USD 709,400 and that is because the Hong Kong Govt. charges a 1st-time registration tax on each new vehicle which can be as high as 100% (as probably is in this case) of the purchase price of the car.
I'm not very worldly, didn't realize other countries used the $ for their currency. I assumed rather a very sensationalist misprint, maybe on top of one of the giant import tariffs you hear about with some nations. In any event very sad to see, and scary. Edit: silly, I guess even Canada uses the $.
There are many jokes about Ferrari catching fire. I don't know the statistics, but it is certain that every one is reported in the news, so all of them find their way to FChat. One needs to keep in mind that heat management is a big issue in these cars. The high output engines produce a lot of heat (the V12s run 60 weight oil) which combined with aerodynamic bottoms makes for lots of design effort to shed heat via all those vents, gills, etc. It's part of the deal.
The FF gets hot going through slow traffic. I found that the stop/start helped a lot when in standing traffic. It ran a lot cooler than the 612 did because of that.
Rumor for cause of fire is loose power steering fluid hose. Ironically, the car just left the dealer service center. Asked my dealer sales friend about it during the Cali T launch event last Friday; and he said Ferrari S.p.A. is taking over this matter and has already flown someone in from Italy to investigate the real cause of the fire.
Yeah I just wasn't thinking. Posting without thinking much is probably a good bit of the reason I have 14000 posts in under five years. Oh well. My contribution to the peanut gallery. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk
