Topic about Ferrari

[Guest angela]

Topic about Ferrari

[Guest Sareve]

Have any F430 Scuderias been spotted in Singapore yet? Last I heard, the waiting list was 2 years long O_O

[g8crasher]

My all time favourite Ferrari = F355 8)

[Guest fruitcakepablohoney]

Oh My God, Hello Kitty & Power Puff Girls, my kidz fav!

[Guest jenvid]

Oh My God, Hello Kitty & Power Puff Girls, my kidz fav!

Must be his second or third enzo & testarossa... how I wish

[Guest C350]

jenvid go for it la hee...

[Guest 9339]

Any one interested, but is a 3rd owner...... Victor, where are you?

http://www.sgcarmart.com/main/info-nRUcCwK-1226.html

[Guest jenvid]

jenvid go for it la hee...

U sponsor me a heidelberg sprintmaster, I go print some euro then ferrari everywhere...

[Guest CBlack]

Any one interested, but is a 3rd owner...... Victor, where are you?

http://www.sgcarmart.com/main/info-nRUcCwK-1226.html

victor now wants the 430!

[Guest Otsego]

Ferrari Enzo got money also cannot buy...

[Guest Otsego]

btw this is my all time fav Ferrari

[Guest JGoh]

Baby Ferrari Finally Confirmed as Grand Tourer

May 9, 2008 by Clinton Deacon

There is no more denying it!! Despite numerous denials Ferrari has finally confirmed what we had all expected, they are in fact working on a brand new model and the name – Ferrari Grand Tourer.

The Italians have created a special site for the new model at www.ferrarigtcountdown.com (great marketing tool!!!) and before the official unveiling at the Paris Motor Show in September, we can look forward to a number of teasers as the new model is revealed bit by bit. Just to get those juices flowing, Ferrari have began with a few soundbites and trust us, they are well worth heading over there for a few seconds of bliss. Despite earlier speculation stating the Grand Tourer will be powered by a V6, the engine certainly sounds to have the bite of a V8.

The new model will slot in at the bottom of the Ferrari portfolio and is expected to be priced in the region of €110,000 with around 4000 units being produced each year.

[Guest Sareve]

Hohoho Mercedes is going to feel the hit after Ferrari launches their first hard top convertible, it looks set to blow the sl65 and 63 away.

[Guest kopimonster]

Hohoho Mercedes is going to feel the hit after Ferrari launches their first hard top convertible, it looks set to blow the sl65 and 63 away.

yup, agree...if both are priced in the same bracket....the sl63/65 better watch out...

and IF this is going to be the case...merc really appears to have a habit of building high end cars for die hards only....hard to see them winning over brand-neutral customers....

[Guest Sareve]

Ack I just read the latest news, Ferrari will be pricing the F149 higher than the 430 (although many suspect that the 430's successor will eventually be priced higher than the F149). Looks like Ferrari's trying to directly compete against Aston Martin as well as trying to win over people who would normally buy an SL65 as their daily driver.

Next up, a Ferrari 4 door coupe! If Porsche and Aston are already taking cues from Mercedes and going for it, well... Why not Ferrari as well?

[Guest JGoh]

Ferrari California Revealed

First images and details

May 13, 2008 by Clinton Deacon

The Hugely anticipated Ferrari California has been revealed with three official images and first details. The new GT joins Ferrari's 8-cylinder family and slots in just below the 612 Scaglietti with its new V8 which for the first time in their history is placed in the mid-front position of the car. Despite earlier predictions of a coupe model, the California will be exclusively available as a convertible featuring a folding hard top.

Power comes courtesy of a new 4.3-Liter V8 Engine with direct fuel injection and a “flat” crankshaft, output stands at 460 horsepower at 7500 rpm which launches it from 0-100km/h in under 4 seconds. The new model is the first model in the range to benefit from a new 7-speed dual clutch transmission which helps enhance the performance figures and driving pleasure whilst simultaneously reducing emissions(c.310 g/km CO2). But the performance enhancements don't stop there, the California also gets a new multilink rear suspension system, the F1-Trac traction system originally debuted in the 599 GTB Fiorano and carbon-ceramic material brake discs.

The interior benefits from newly developed accessories and equipment such as the seats, steering wheel, instrument panel and infotainment system. The exterior shows a classic prancing horse design aerodynamically enhanced to be highly ergonomic and enjoyable car to drive regardless of whether the top is up or down.

The California will be publicly unveiled in September at the Paris Motor Show, but before then we are promised further details and images will be released.

[Guest JGoh]

Ferrari California in depth

A different sort of Ferrari

Front-mounted V8, dual-clutch transmission, folding hard-top – and styling that divides opinion like few others

22nd May 2008

Customers found the F430 too compromised for daily use. Ferrari's California embodies a number of radical and significant developments for the Italian marque. First and foremost it is the first V8-engined Ferrari road car to place the engine in front of the driver. Secondly, it is clearly aimed at new customers, the type who currently buy Mercedes’ high-powered SL models and Aston’s DB9. Which suggests that Ferrari’s annual production figures are set to soar; in fact a new factory is currently being built at Maranello.

The California also has two completely new features for any Ferrari production car – a DSG-style twin-clutch transmission, and a folding hard-top which disappears into the slightly bulbous rear quarters. Indeed the styling is one of the more controversial aspects of the car, seemingly dividing opinion like few other Ferraris in memory. And finally it resurrects a name that hasn’t been seen on a model from Maranello for more than 40 years.

Look back through Ferrari history and the name ‘California’ first crops up in the late 1950s and early 1960s when a number of limited-run convertibles were built for wealthy American enthusiasts around the chassis and V12 engine of Ferrari’s fabulous 250GT Tour de France production street-racer. Over the next few years, the California tag came to stand for the ultimate, driver-focused convertible Ferrari.

The decision to introduce a front-engined V8 model was taken by Luca di Montezemolo some four years ago in response to customers who found the mid-engined F430 too compromised for daily use compared with front-engined rivals. From now on there will be two distinct branches of the Ferrari family: on one side the ‘prestige sporty GTs’ which will include the California and the 612 Scaglietti, and on the other the more extreme sporting models, which will include F430 and Scuderia, 599 GTB and the eventual Enzo replacement.

Mechanically, the California is dramatically different to any current Ferrari. It’s powered by a heavily reworked version of the F430’s 4308cc V8. It retains the flat-plane crankshaft but it introduces direct fuel injection (a first for Ferrari – see panel overleaf) and it’s tuned to deliver a broad spread of torque, rather than a spiky power-peak, although 454bhp at 7500rpm is hardly shabby for a 4.3-litre engine.

The V8 drives the rear wheels via a transaxle transmission with a brand new, seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox (see over for details), mounted in unit with the rear differential casing, helping to give the car an ideal, slightly rearward weight bias to enhance handling and traction. Ferrari says the feel of the gearchanges will be more aggressive than we’re used to from dual-clutch transmissions (especially those offered by VW and Audi) because that’s what Ferrari customers expect and want. Brembo has developed new carbon-ceramic brakes, which will be standard on the car, as will the latest F1-Trac traction control system first seen on the 599.Ferrari has also developed an all-new, multi-link rear suspension set-up, optimised to give the California excellent ride characteristics in keeping with its GT role. The car is ostensibly a 2+2, but appearances suggest the rear seats might be more suited to carrying golf clubs than even the smallest humans.

The only performance figure the factory is quoting is 0-100kph (62mph) in ‘less than 4.0sec’, which will be remarkable for a lavishly equipped convertible expected to tip the scales at around 1700kg. Ferrari has tried hard to keep the weight down – the bodywork and chassis are fabricated entirely in aluminium – but this is a relatively large car fitted with a powered folding hard-top, which brings its own weight penalty. For comparison, the Maserati GranTurismo weighs 1880kg, while the carbonfibre-bodied Alfa 8C comes in at 1585kg.

The California will also come with a pretty hefty price-tag. Sources inside Ferrari hint at a list price of around £150,000 before extras. But even at that price, judging by the reaction of potential customers (see far right) it’s going to sell by the thousand, which is precisely why Ferrari has been busy building a new assembly plant.

Quite how that squares with the frequent statements from Maranello that Ferrari production must be capped to retain the marque’s exclusivity remains to be seen. Ferrari’s annual production figures have been climbing every year since 1997 (3581) to hit a peak of 6465 in 2007, the first time it has broken the 6000 cars a year barrier. Some commentators are predicting that sales could hit 10,000 in a few years’ time. Back in 2006, when pressed over whether Ferrari would ever go beyond 6000 new car sales, Montezemolo told reporters: ‘We (Ferrari) will sell the same number of cars in each of our traditional markets but more in new markets; we need to maintain Ferrari’s exclusivity.’

The California will get its official unveiling at the Paris show in October, by which time the order book will already be bursting. Controversial looks or not, Ferrari seems to have another massive success on its hands.

New 4.3-litre V8 engine

Although similar to the F430’s 4.3-litre V8, the new version in the California features Gazoline Direct Injection (GDI), a Ferrari first.

Why GDI? Squirting fuel directly into the combustion chamber gives much more accurate control, reducing waste and improving emissions, ergo better mpg and lower CO2. In regular injected engines, the petrol has a nasty habit of sloshing around the inlet port and falling out of suspension as the air pressure goes up, so when you suddenly floor the throttle a great lump of fuel lands in the cylinder but won’t burn properly.

But surprisingly GDI also effectively raises the fuel’s octane rating because only air is sucked in through the inlet valve (slightly more air than in a non-GDI engine because the fuel is not taking up space) and heated up by compression. The fuel is not being heated so has a cooling effect when injected, allowing higher compression ratios to be run without pinking, so performance is significantly improved.

There are down sides. Higher revs need higher fuel pressures to get all the fuel in before the spark.Mechanical pumps running up to 200bar can be noisy, while using off-the-shelf injectors can be a limiting factor; little time for the fuel to mix with air leads to clumping and higher smoke/soot generation, affecting oil life and cylinder wear. Ferrari quotes the peak power of the new 4.3 V8 at 7500rpm, compared with 8500rpm for the F430 engine, which may be down to the injectors. Still, at 7500rpm, the power is higher than in the F430 at that same speed, promising improved acceleration throughout the available rev-range. Ralph Hosier

Dual clutch transmission

The seven-speed Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) is another Ferrari first for the California and, ideally for a GT car, promises drivers the best of both worlds: the convenience and smoothness of an automatic and, at the press of a button, the aggression and shift speed of Ferrari’s ‘F1’ automated manual transmission (AMT).

Ferrari’s technical partner on the new transmission is Getrag-Ford, the company that helped create BMW’s M-DCT, recently launched in the M3 Convertible (see page 66). Insiders say that development of the Ferrari DCT has taken much longer than anticipated (it was originally scheduled to appear in the 612 Scaglietti).

The adoption of the DCT is almost entirely positive. It can behave like a conventional auto but is more economical and will be untroubled by stop/start city driving, unlike an AMT which can wear out its clutch plate rapidly. Then, at a twist of the steering wheel ‘manettino’, the DCT can become as sporty as F1 Superfast, offering shifts with minimal torque interruption which, in league with seven ratios, will offer better acceleration than the six-speed F1 box.

The only downside is that the DCT is about 10kg heavier than the F1 AMT, but this is turned to an advantage by the California’s transaxle layout. The front-mid-mounted V8 is connected to the transaxle via a torque tube, with the gearbox on the far side of the rear axle line, helping weight distribution. Like DCTs in transverse engine/front-drive applications, the Ferrari unit is a compact three-shaft design – good packaging in the tail of the California is crucial with a folding hard-top to accommodate.

- John Barker

[Guest JGoh]

Ferrari California opens up

First pictures of Prancing Horse's new baby GT with its electric folding roof in action

By Sam Hardy

29th May 2008

Ferrari has lifted the lid even further on its all-new supercar, the California. Following images of the 454bhp 4.3-litre V8-engined baby GT with its roof-down, the Italian firm has now released these pictures showing the model's electric hard-top in action.

As you can see it's made up of two pieces – the roof itself and a seperate opening section that comprises the boot lid and most of the rear end. According to Ferrari, the hood is very fast, stowing in just 14 seconds at the flick of a switch.

It's also practical. Conceived as a more useable alternative to the F430, it features luggage space behind the front seats, and 360-litres of capacity roof-up, 260-litres roof-down. Sitting below the 599 GTB, the California is smaller, but not exactly compact. Measuring 4.56m by 1.9m, it's nearly 300mm longer than a Lamborghini Gallardo and just as wide.

These latest pictures show the car in Azzurro California blue. This paint colour was used for the original California's apperance at the 1962 New York Motor Show. The new version gets a new 4.3-litre V8 with a seven-speed dual clutch gearbox, for which Ferrari claims fuel economy figures of 21.4mpg combined and CO2 emissions of 310g/km. The firm also says its body develops 70kg of downforce at 120mph.

The car has been recently put through its paces by Ferrari president, Luca di Montezemolo at the firm's Fiorano test track. He described the California as "supremely flexible in terms of useage". On sale toward the end of 2009, the California is expected to cost around £130,000.

[g8crasher]

http://www.sgcarmart.com/main/info-nzPIWk-1000.html

This is my fave Ferrari.. LAU NUAH TAN KU KU...

[Guest Otsego]

http://www.sgcarmart.com/main/info-nzPIWk-1000.html

This is my fave Ferrari.. LAU NUAH TAN KU KU...

that is a damn cool looking Ferrari! :rockon:

[Guest C350]

wow lau, nose bleed liao, let do a group buy Ferrari California

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[Guest dash]

wow lau, nose bleed liao, let do a group buy Ferrari California

1. C35

2. dash (i just own the rims can liao)

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[Guest Otsego]

wow lau, nose bleed liao, let do a group buy Ferrari California

1. C35

2. dash (i just own the rims can liao)

3. Otsego (Wheel nuts will do)

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[Guest 9339]

Come Come, stay at my place.....

Can let you guys test drive it first... :tazzie:

[Guest angela]

Come Come, stay at my place.....

Can let you guys test drive it first... :tazzie:

set i bring supper over tonight. :bboyspin: :bboyspin: :bboyspin: