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Posts Tagged ‘ferrari’
London Ferrari Store’s Beautiful Wind Tunnel Shop Window Display
Friday, April 20th, 2012
Here It is – Brand New Ferrari F12 Berlinetta – Full Specs
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Maranello, 29th February – Today’s on-line unveiling of the F12berlinetta ushers in a new generation of Ferrari 12-cylinders in the form of a car that delivers unprecedented performance from an exceptional new engine, combined with innovative design that redefines classic themes along with extreme aerodynamics.
Revealed to the world for the first time on Ferrari.com in preparation for its official debut at the Geneva International Motor Show, the F12berlinetta, finished in an attractive new Rosso Berlinetta three-layer colour, represents the very cutting-edge of mid-front-engined sports cars.
Is This The New Super Ferrari?
Monday, February 27th, 2012
We’re not fans of grainy, unreliable “spy photos” here at Overdrive. We know what you kids can do with photoshop. However the fact that this pic, apparently snapped at a launch of some kind for the new super Ferrari, has come out just two days before the official unveiling on February 29, does help its authenticity slightly.
Borrowing much from the face of the new FF, the F620 GT, the replacement to the 599, has been in development for some time, officially. Then Ferrari teased us with a video of the sound of the thing. Click through for the video.
Expected to be Ferrari’s most powerful car ever, the V12 monster will debut at Geneva on 6 March 2012.
Overdrive on Expresso – Ferrari 458 Spyder and VW Amarok
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011I think it’s important that we don’t forget that cars in general should excite us. They should just exist in our lives for no other reason than to make us feel like 7 year olds. I haven’t felt this way about a car in years, I actually want a poster of this on my wall. The Ferrari 458 Spider.
We’ve driven the single and double cab variants of this car and I’ll start off by saying I think they’re brilliant. Volkswagen has really taken the fight to the establishment and created a clever, powerful, fuel efficient, good looking, massive range of bakkies.
We should point out that in America these bakkies are marketed as “compact pick ups”.The Amarok is anything but compact. It is simply massive. Its like driving New Zealand. Not driving around in New Zealand, I mean the whole thing.
Catch us next week on Expresso!
The Italians do drama properly with the new FF video
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Cue stirring music, dramatic snow-sliding shots from a chopper and a glorious V12 soundtrack. This is a video made during the Ferrari FF’s (many and varied) testing phase.
PPPPOOOOOOWWWWWEEEEERRRRRRRR.
Enjoy.
Holy Pope Slippers! A new Ferrari’s just been revealed today!
Friday, January 21st, 2011
By Ciro De Siena
My grandmother was Italian, and her standard idiom for events that happened once in a blue moon was: “On the death of the Pope!” Things such as her husband ever cooking dinner, her son ever returning that loan or her fabled return to her homeland, would only happen, apparently, when her beloved Pope popped his clogs.
This used to be the same with another Italian institution, Ferrari. Mostly because Enzo Ferrari himself couldn’t give a prancing pony about road cars; he just wanted to make enough money to go racing. But then some enlightened stylish bastard worked out that anything with the fabled badge on the front would sell like hotcakes and at eyewatering prices. We therefore get treated to a new Fezza every two years or so these days, which I personally don’t have a problem with.
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World Cup Cars: Argentina
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Argentina. Dangerous at corners. And pretty much everywhere else.
Fired up by firepower and not a lot of brains. Argentina is the Ferrari F40.
Football is essentially a very simple game. Retain the ball, keep moving and do some damage. Cars are the same. Their beauty lies in their unpredictabilty and National teams/car makers that insist on adhering to a certain style add to this heady cocktail of randomness. Not many car manufacturers have the sheer cajones to make something so undeniably theirs, so viscerally bold as the side Diego Maradona chose for the 2010 World Cup. But Ferrari did it with the spartanesque projectile they called the F40.
For Maradona, full-backs were a luxury he couldn’t afford. In the same way the F40 eschewed commonly held truths about how expensively assembled cars should be. It was gloriously stripped down and ready to attack. Ferrari -like Argentina- believe more in their ability to be frighteningly visceral and entertaining above any accepted norms. ”We have 3 of the best strikers in the world and one on the bench, let’s unleash them all at the same time”. The F40 was as daftly exciting as Maradona’s Argentina this World Cup. But as the Albiceleste found out, it didn’t take long for a good team from Germany to figure them out and surpass them. Red blooded passion and unpredictabilty only get you so far. But God how we loved them.
F1 Shocker: Ferrari Says Something True
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Ferrari has long loathed privateer upstarts. The old man himself, Enzo Ferrari, famously referred to the British teams as garagista -garage owners. Now, although I’m not particularly a fan of theirs, Ferrari has it absolutely right.
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eF-One: The Napoleonic Wars.
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Jean Todt has just been elected President of the FIA. He’s the first Frenchy in charge since the often hated Jean-Marie Balestre’s senile reign ended over 15 years ago. One thing’s for sure, Todt’s private life couldn’t be more bizarre than Max Mosley’s extra-curricular activities even if he enjoyed collecting goat’s hoofs and claimed to be the Emperor of Neptune.
It also seems every FIA president needs to have some sort of connection to Hitler. Mosley’s dad -as head of the British Fascist Party- had the Fuhrer at his wedding no doubt boring people round the punch bowl and doing an embarrassing jitterbug once the schnapps started flowing. Balestre joined the French SS during the war and later claimed (obviously) that he was a spy for the good guys all along. Yes. So let’s hope Jean Todt doesn’t prove to have an Aunt who financed the Napoleonic wars or invented the U-Boat.
We think you’ll like it here: Alonso joins Scuderia Familia
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Ron Dennis is a weirdo. Not since Howard Hughes locked himself in a hotel room with jars of urine and wore tissue boxes as shoes have we seen anyone display such an aversion to germ-carrying scruffiness. His level of Second-World-War-matron-at-a-Catholic-hospital idea of cleanliness even extended to not allowing employees at McLaren to have any personal effects on their desks. Not even pictures of their families.
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