The 599 GTO is a stunning machine! Cheers for the pics Joe and Merry Christmas to you and your family mate.
Random in California a number of years ago, I think the mans owns a 599XX also. Image Unavailable, Please Login
599 GTO luggage explained. Many were delivered without any luggage, some came with 2 pieces of luggage, some came with 4 pieces of luggage, and some came with 6 pieces of luggage. The was an option to order the 4 piece GTO-badged luggage set (number 27 in the illustration below, Ferrari part number 83259100), this set was meant for stowage in the rear trunk of the car. The was also an option to order a 2 piece GTO-badged luggage set (number 28 in the illustration below, Ferrari part number 83170300), this angle-cut set was meant for stowage on the rear shelf, secured by the belts provided. If you ordered both the rear trunk and rear shelf sets, you got a total of 6 pieces of luggage. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The rear trunk pieces. If anyone has a set of luggage for sale we're seeking sets for 2 clients based in the USA. Image Unavailable, Please Login
One of the more sublime USA 599 GTO specification examples, Argento with Rosso leather, a classic livery. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Even before you hear the epic sound it makes, the 599 GTO looks like such a road weapon. Image Unavailable, Please Login
James Cottingham in the special-order Blu Ghibli Cup 599 GTO at Chorleywood Station in the UK, looks familiar! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
And here's your chance to own the epically elegant GTO n° 177016 with just 5,111 miles which is coming up for auction by RM Sothebys in Miami https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mi24/miami/lots/r0138-2011-ferrari-599-gto/1450525/photos on March 1st - 2nd 2024. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Well you're spoiled for choice, the same weekend Gooding have the Argento Nurburgring with Rosso n°177202 showing 5,949 miles www.goodingco.com also available.
From Maranello with love, the Christmas card you received if you were one of the lucky ones in the winter of 2010/11. Image Unavailable, Please Login
599 GTO magazine coverage by Top Gear Magazine in June 2010. EVO magazine separately stated: It’s Ferrari’s fastest ever road car, both in 0-62mph time (3.35sec) and Fiorano track time (1min24sec), while all of Ferrari’s talk is of how track-focused the GTO is. It is more closely derived from the track-only 599XX, rather than the road-going GTB, and boasts a lot of Formula 1-inspired technology. Thanks to a revised crankshaft and racing-style intake system, power and torque are now 670bhp (at 8250rpm) and 457lb ft (at 6500rpm), respective rises of 50bhp and 9lb ft, while the car weighs 1605kg, giving a 418bhp/ton power-to-weight ratio, 50bhp higher than the GTB’s figure. The 0-62mph figure has gone sub-Enzo and the top speed is rated at ‘208mph+’. To help haul off all that speed, there’s a set of ‘second-generation’ Brembo carbon-ceramic brakes, with the ABS calibrated for high-speed track use. They benefit from ‘wheel doughnuts’ – discs positioned outside of the brake discs that keep hot air exiting the wheelarch close to the body of the car, reducing drag. A flat underbody and new, separate lower wing incorporated in the front spoiler aid the aerodynamics further. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The day may come when floppy paddles are considered "raw", and this will be the high-water mark as final and fastest iteration of a paddle-shifted manual gearbox - and also as fewer enthusiasts are interested in having a third pedal at all?
Many of the current active set of Ferrari Supercar buyers aren't sentimental about changing gears, some don't even know how to operate 3 pedals and have no interest in learning to do so. But they love Ferraris and have the means to own them. For them, a car like the 599 GTO represents the raw visceral experience that later Ferraris lack, so in that sense it's truly an end-of-an-era icon. My 1st post explains why. Forza Magazine's October 2010 tried to convey what it's like to actually experience the howling fury that is the 599 GTO, some excerpts: GRAN TURISMO OMOLOGATO is not a moniker Ferrari applies to its cars lightly; the company has used it only three times in its 63-year history. The first was the 250 GTO in 1962; the second was the 288 GTO in 1984. While the 599 GTO is not a homologation model in the traditional sense (a road car built to legalize a race car), Ferrari has cleverly redefined the issue by describing it as a 599XX homologated for road use. And the latest GTO certainly delivers all the technology, engineering sophistication and outright speed that this description implies. The magic begins when I slide into the driver’s seat, turn the key and push the Start button. The exhaust’s raucous bark echoes off the nearby buildings, stopping pedestrians in their tracks and causing heads to swivel. The lightly fettled F1-SuperFast gearbox shifts quicker than ever—upshifts take just 60 milliseconds—and remains a perfect partner to the engine. In practice, it is so intuitive to use that it fades unheralded into the background, like the bow which makes the stradivarius sing. Speaking of which, have I mentioned the sound? The V12’s howl isn’t as strident or extreme as a truly high-revving Formula 1-esque engine; it’s better. Fuller bodied and meatier, the motor has a distinct hoarseness that makes it all the more thrilling. (The image that comes to mind is, of all things, a shrieking dragon.) And the way it crackles with a rasping blip on downshifts is truly awesome. Dynamically, the GTO is a masterful achievement, matching violent acceleration, brutal braking and downright feral lateral g-forces. The traction and stability controls are called upon constantly, and even their millisecond-quick corrections can’t stop the car from twitching under acceleration when I get on the power in anything but a perfectly straight line. The GTO’s V12 receives the 599XX’s dual intake plenums, which are connected to allow pressure compensation between the two cylinder banks and improve volumetric efficiency at high revs. The heads house such goodies as DLC-coated tappets and “super finished” camshaft lobes in a quest for maximum efficiency. Likewise, a redesigned crankshaft with oleo-dynamic counterweights and pistons with printed graphite coating on their skirts help reduce internal friction by 12 percent. Exhaust manifolds replicate the 599XX’s six-into-one design, the only difference being the addition of a single catalytic converter per cylinder bank. Hydroforming technology allows thinner walls for the exhaust pipes as well as fewer welds, contributing to a considerable 29-pound weight reduction in this area. First seen on the 599XX, second-gen carbon-ceramic discs (CCM2) are now mated to pads of the same material for increased consistency, improved stopping power and lighter weight. Ventilated wheel donuts inserted between the rim and the brakes improve cooling and help counteract the aerodynamic turbulence created by the wheels.
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