The fastest production car Ferrari has ever built is here
Think about it. The Ferrari 599 was one of the fastest road-legal production Ferrari ever built. That’s right – it was. This is the year of extreme V12s. Ferrari has just pulled the cover off their F12 Berlinetta. A supercar that will provide power like none other from its stable.
To understand the significance of this release you must first
understand the 599. The 599 was released in three years ago was a
6-litre V12 and could do 0-100kph in 3.5 seconds. This mind you was not a
stripped sown convertible or Ariel Atom. This was a proper hard-top
supercar that weighed nearly two tons. It produced 620bhp and 448lb-ft
of torque. Hypothetically, if there were a pub for exclusively for
supercars, you’d find the Ferrari 599, the Lamborghini Aventador LP-700-4, the Aston Martin DBS
and the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG sitting at the same table reserved
exclusively for them, and passing around a bottle of Dom Perignon while
ridiculing every other supercar in that bar.
It’s time for the F12 Berlinetta to ask the 599 to get up and walk
out of that pub. The Berlinetta takes each of those performance stats of
the 599 mentioned above and shatters it – only this time it does it not
with a simple V12, but an extreme one. This monster is a 6.3-litre baby
that produces 740 horspower (that’s 40 more horses than Lamborghini’s
fastest production car the Aventador) and 690 lb-ft of peak torque. If
you really push this Ferrari to its edge (and we don’t see any reason
you shouldn’t), it will go all the way to mind-boggling 8,700rpm and do
0-100kph in 3.1 seconds.
There were three teaser videos that Ferrari released in the run-up to
the official release. Spy shots of the car leaked onto the web days
before its release. And as good a job as they do with their electronics
and engineering, Ferrari is pathetic at keeping things under wraps. Tim Cook should drop by the Ferrari production factory someday.
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