View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The late '60s and early '70s were a high water mark for automotive performance, at least looking back from my time in high school. Safety regulations had piled on weight while emissions and fuel economy standards had sapped horsepower to the point that early '80s "performance" cars were shadows of their former selves; decal-and-spoiler performance packages wrapped around asthmatic powerplants...
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Bloomberg reports that the value of collector cars has been soaring. Bloomberg says Stephen Serio, a Massachusetts classic-car dealer, expects to sell a 1966 Ferrari 275GTB on his lot for about $810,000. The same car sold for $500,000 just five years ago. "When you have something they're not making any more of, the value goes up," said comedian Jay Leno, host of the Jay Leno Show, who has...
akbw (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
This must be one of the weirdest Top Gear races ever! This is one of my favourite Top Gear races ever! The first race is where Jezza decides to do a race to see which SUPERCAR....YES, SUPERCAR.... is the most fuel efficient. He pits a Ferrari 599GTB Fiorano with a 6.0litre V12 engine with 611bhp, a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster with a 5.4litre S/C V8 engine with 617bhp, a Lamborghini Murcielago...
Straightline (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
The just-launched handling GTE option for the gorgeous Ferrari GTB Fiorano is now available as a Ferrari Genuine Accessories package at dealers. There will be two different prices, depending on the customer's wishes and the year of the vehicle. For vehicles built before 2008, the package starts at $28,100 for handling, exhaust and aesthetic treatment, while owners of post-2008 produced 599s will be...
The Mommy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
C’etait un Rendez vous Director Claude Lelouch mounts a camera to the front bumper of a sports car, and films it howling through the streets of Paris very early one summer’s morning. For years rumours circulated that the car used was Lelouch’s own Ferrari 275GTB, one of the most stunning cars of all time and the driver a Formula 1 star of the time. The film, just nine minutes long,...
Classic cars, rallies and races (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Click on the picture to enlarge Other Mugello Road Race Photos On the sunny and cool weekend of June 13th and 14th Scuderia Clemente Biondetti and ACI Firenze organized the 22nd edition of the Mugello Road Race . For the fifth time, the wonderful town of Firenzuola hosted this great automotive event and greeted the one hundred participants with the usual warmth and hospitality. The event took place...
Waxing Void (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Ferrari 365GTB/4 Originally uploaded by Gareth Nicholson
Sub5zero - Redefing Fast (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Back in March, at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show , Ferrari first unveiled the Handling Gran Turismo Evoluzione (HGTE) package for the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano . However, since then there hasn't been much follow-up. Now, we finally have tons of pictures of the GTB Fiorano in its full HTGE setup. You always have to love it when there is package available to make an exceptional car outstanding. So how do...
CARSCOOP (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
Not that it's entirely impossible, but two supercars getting into an accident on a public road is a rarity. This incident that involved an Audi R8 rear-ending a Ferrari 599GTB occurred on May 25th in Fu Zhou, China. According to reports, the driver of the Ferrari slammed onto his brakes after a taxi in front of him came to a sudden halt in order...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
This Ferrari 365GTB/4 V12 meticulously built from eleven different woods, just popped up on eBay. It's one of 25 hand-made by Bill Dietz, each taking 400 man hours and three years to build. Ferrari engines of any vintage are pieces of art on their own, but this absolutely faithful recreation in woods ranging from oak to Philippine mahogany takes things to an entirely different level. Everything is...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
This Ferrari 365GTB/4 V12 engine meticulously built from eleven different woods, just popped up on eBay. It's one of 25 hand-made by Bill Dietz, each taking 400 man hours and combined three years to build. Ferrari engines of any vintage are pieces of art on their own, but this absolutely faithful recreation in woods ranging from oak to Philippine mahogany takes things to an entirely different level....
Straightline (Free subscription) | 04/16/2009
Remember the Ferrari 599GTB that D-list celebrity Fabio smashed up over the weekend . Well, it turns out that the owners of the car, World Class Driving , were not too happy with Mr. Fabio's assertion that the car's "brakes gave out" causing the crash. It has now issued an official statement, "After preliminary investigation, World Class Driving found the car was in excellent working...
Straightline (Free subscription) | 04/16/2009
Remember the Ferrari 599GTB that D-list celebrity Fabio smashed up over the weekend . Well, it turns out that the owners of the car, World Class Driving , were not too happy with Mr. Fabio's assertion that the car's "brakes gave out" causing the crash. It has now issued an official statement, "After preliminary investigation, World Class Driving found the car was in excellent working...
TechEnclave (Free subscription) | 02/15/2009
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