599 option for 2 rear seats?

Is there such an option for 2 rear seats in the 599?
Asking for a friend who has kids.

Thanks in advance. Cheers..

 

ok. I must have been confused. Must have mistaken it with the upcoming F149 which is supposed to have option for 2 rear seats
or a bench like 599.
Thanks

 

haha...like this?


That Ferrari Might Run on Vegetable Oil Someday: Doron Levin
2008-01-18 00:25 (New York)


Commentary by Doron Levin
Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Ferrari sports cars have been
likened to racehorses, cheetahs and other fleet-of-foot
creatures. The automaker is worrying about the day when a
Ferrari might be seen as a dinosaur.
That's why Ferrari SpA displays at auto shows now include
one odd exhibit among the $320,000 12-cylinder F599s and low-
slung $250,000 F430 Scuderias: a F430 BioFuel that can run on
E85, a mixture of 15 percent gasoline and 85 percent ethanol
seen by some as less harmful to the environment.
The Modena, Italy-based company also is pledging to improve
the fuel efficiency of its models by 40 percent over the next
four years.
Ferrari, owned by Fiat SpA, developed the Ferrari
prototype, shown for the first time at the North American
International Auto Show in Detroit earlier this week, to send
the message that it cares about the planet as much as any
automaker. Inspired by models such as the Toyota Prius gas-
electric hybrid, mass-market automakers are developing all
manner of hybrids, diesels, fuel-cell and battery-powered cars
designed to use less energy and emit less carbon dioxide than
conventional models.
Fisker Automotive Inc. is the latest Silicon Valley startup
to show a prototype of a battery-powered, plug-in hybrid.
Fisker's Karma will sell for $80,000 and the company claims it
will reach 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour) from a
standstill in 5.8 seconds.

Losing Sleep

If I ran a company that built Bentleys, Rolls-Royces,
Maseratis or any ultra-luxury car powered by a huge gasoline
engine, I wouldn't be sleeping well right now. The latest
energy-saving regulations in the U.S. and Europe are forcing all
carmakers to design less powerful, smaller vehicles. Smaller and
less powerful might be OK for a Ford owner; they're swear words
to buyers of ultra-luxury cars.
Tougher rules on fuel consumption are spurred by signs of
global warming and $100-a-barrel crude oil. Buyers of Ferraris
and the like may not devote much thought to the price of
gasoline. But they do wish to avoid surly looks and self-
righteous comments at the yacht club.
``What's important to our customers are the social
implications,'' said David Reuter, a spokesman for Bentley
Motors Ltd., a unit of Volkswagen AG. ``Everyone wants to
pollute less; that's a no-brainer. What we've heard from our
customers is if Bentley can be socially responsible that would
be a positive.''
Reuter said Bentley is working on a strategy to address
ecological concerns that will be announced in Geneva in March.
``We never want to give a customer a reason not to buy a
Bentley,'' he said.

Minimal Impact

Unlike more common car brands such as Ford or Nissan,
makers of so-called exotic cars such as the $222,000, 520-
horsepower Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, sell only a few thousand
cars worldwide a year. Lamborghini, whose emblem is a raging
bull, sold 2,406 vehicles worldwide in 2007, up from 2,087 a
year earlier.
Cars made by Lamborghini, owned by Volkswagen's Audi unit,
emit more than 400 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer. The
European Union wants carmakers to reduce emissions to 120 grams
or less by 2012.
Some will wonder how limiting a handful of rare, little-
used vehicles can help the atmosphere much, even if you doubt
that carbon dioxide is putting the planet on the path to
destruction.
``The volumes are too low to make a difference in emissions
or energy consumption,'' said Bob Austin, an automotive
consultant in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Thus, any
calculation of a Ferrari's environmental impact must take into
account how few of them exist and how few miles they log on the
roads each year, he said. Explaining this to the U.S. Congress
or the European Union will sound a tad elitist.

Avoiding Insults

Facts are facts, though. Buyers of ultra-luxury models tend
to own several cars. For running out to Starbucks, they probably
keep a Prius (or two) for sheer novelty value or just to be able
to travel free of harassment or insult on Earth Day.
New technology might be the savior. Bayerische Motoren
Werke AG, owner of Rolls-Royce, is working on a hydrogen-powered
combustion engine for its high-end BMW 7-Series cars. One day,
Austin said, BMW might consider installing the engine in its
$350,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Big and sophisticated high-end diesels also could placate
regulators. The public relations goal, after all, is to claim
that energy consumption has been reduced -- not stamped out
altogether.
My hunch is that the designers and engineers of glamour
brands will soon figure out how to retool their image, if not
their vehicles. The E85 Ferrari was a good first effort.
With so much posturing and junk science guiding the
environmental movement, there also must be ways to make a few
thousand supercars seem harmless.

(Doron Levin is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions
expressed are his own.)