EVO#90 - Ferrari 599GTB

like all 12 cyl ferraris, expect a tear up in depreciation similar to jag, but the ferrari accelerates better

 

Why does Richard Meaden get all the Good cars? Maybe he's the only one that will fit nicely...
Anyway f*ck the 599, where's the LP640?

EDIT: Just going through the article, it says "The 575 was aimed at more of a GT customer, but now the 612 is our GT flagship.
The 599 is a pure sports car but with the kind of practicality a 575 customer needs." But it's still a GT car, I don't think it falls
into the sports car category. Sports cars are meant to be light, this one isn't. I'm sure it's stupidly fast and handles well, but it isn't a
sports car like the F430 is.
This kind of w*nk talk annoys me. It's still going to appeal to the same kind of market the 550 and 575 did. Yes it has more power.
Yes it has more downforce. Yes the ESP and gearchanges are faster and cleverer, but that's just natural progress. It will more redefine
the GT car than become a pure sports car. They're trying to tell us otherwise.

 

what's there to be scared of besides he isn't a Lambo guy

 

pretty much

 

Thanks! This issue hasn't arrived in the newsagents around my area.

eurospec you alright there?

 

The latest EVO (may) has an article on a customer taking delivery of his (WOFTAM) FXX. The thing that I found interesting was the modified aero package on it. I suppose it has been mentioned on F-Chat somewhere; but the car actually shuts off the front air intakes for up to 40 seconds on high speed straights, using computer controlled flaps. This forces the air through ducts on the side of the front bar, down the sides of the car and into the side air ducts. Apparently it reduces drag according to aero principals gleened from artillary shell drag research. Ferrari calculated that the engine can survive for up to 40 seconds undamaged without the cooling airflow . The FXX has 40% more downforce than the road going Enzo. Very interesting article IMO.