Alleged Dealer Employee Slams Ferrari 456 into an Oncoming Volkswagen Gol

A violent accident between a Ferrari 456 and a Volkswagen Gol that took place in Martinez, an affluent city located near the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires was caught on tape by a nearby security camera.

The video shows the blue Ferrari 456 after the driver lost control of the car as it heads slideways towards an oncoming Volkswagen Gol hatchback. The impact, as you can see for yourself in the security footage, is severe. Both drivers were taken to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

Although we could not confirm this, media reports from the country citing police sources state that the driver was not the owner of the car but a dealer employee who was taking the Italian supercar for its technical inspection.

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Ferrari World Design Contest: 7 Schools move on to 2nd Stage

Ferrari has announced the seven design schools that have been selected among 50 contestants from all over the world, to participate in the second stage of its World Design Contest that is organized in collaboration with Autodesk.

The schools that made it to the second round are: IED and IAAD from Turin (Italy), the London Royal College of Arts (UK) the European Design Institute Barcelona (Spain), Seoul’s Hong-ik College (Korea), the DSK Supinfocom from Pune (India) and the College For Creative Studies in Detroit (USA).

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New Ferrari FF in All Sorts of Colors Filmed on the Roads of Maranello

Some people are so much into supercars that they don’t mind spending hours and hours on the road waiting for one to come by and record it in action. We, on the other hand, prefer to be the recipients of their work…

This Youtube user, for example, spent a great deal of time on the lookout for any Ferrari FF passing by near the Italian company’s headquarters in Maranello. He was able to spot a handful of cars in various color combinations. If you’re interested in the sights and sounds of Ferrari's four-seat, 660-horsepower V12 supercar, simply follow the break to watch the video.

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Aussie Supercar Buyers Paying More than Anyone Else

In today’s economy, AU$1.0 will get you US$1.06, but it seems Australia’s overseas automakers have yet to acknowledge this. A Lamborghini Aventador, for example, costs a hefty AU$754,600 – or more than twice the price you would pay for one in the U.S. of A. And its 51% pricier than a V12 powered Lamborghini Diablo was ten years ago. This was tolerable when the Aussie dollar was worth 64 U.S. cents a few years ago, but those days are over.

While TV’s, computers and mobile phones have all become more affordable, supercars have not. It’s so bad that one prospective Lamborghini buyer, businessman Ra Hazouri, has flat out refused to pay.

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Load Fail: Crashed Ferrari 355 Challenge Breaks free from Chains

Today’s video find takes us to Saint Gouéno in Bretagne, northwestern France, for an incident involving a Ferrari F355 Challenge racecar, which had crashed during a hill climb that took place in the area this past weekend.

We do not know how the race-spec Italian supercar ended up on its rooftop, but the film shows us what when on after that when a service truck arrived to pickup (literally) the Ferrari. As you can see in the video after the break, all goes well until the red F355 Challenge begins its ascent on the truck’s flatbed when all of a sudden it appears that the chain pulling the vehicle breaks and, well, it is not hard to imagine what happened next...

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Investigators Uncover Multi-Million Pound Tax Scam in India; European Exotics, Foreign Diplomats and Bollywood Actors Involved

In what sounds more like the plot of a The Fast and the Furious movie than real life, investigators at India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence office (a.k.a. India’s IRS) have uncovered a massive exotic car smuggling operation in the nation’s capital of New Dehli. It all has to do with India’s notorious 100% import tax on new luxury vehicles.

It began with one New Dehli luxury car dealer, Sumit Walia, importing brand new luxury cars on forged invoices. These invoices listed the cars as second-hand, which saved Walia – and his customers – some 40% on import tax. Some of the cars – which included Porsches, Bentleys and Aston Martins – were found to have been stolen from the streets of Britain, France, Singapore and Japan.

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Too Much? Graf Weckerle-Tuned Ferrari 458 Italia

It seems that there is a tune for just about everyone and everything these days, from subtle to extreme, and all points in between. We do not know where exactly this Ferrari 458 Italia from German tuning firm Graf Weckerle fits in that spectrum, but those odd-looking alloy wheels are sure to catch the attention of every passerby. Read more »

FAIL: Ferrari 599 GTO in Reverse hits a Pole

Bumping into or even just scraping against an object while pulling you car out of a parking space has probably happened to everyone at least once or twice. However, you would expect an owner of a spanking new Ferrari 599 GTO worth north of €260,000 or close to $400,000 to be far more careful that usual when attempting to reverse out of a parking space. Apparently, being careful was not in the nature of the owner of this blacked out 599 GTO in Cologne, Germany. Video follows after the break. Read more »

Buku Ferrari Semahal Harga Mobilnya

Ferrari, sebuah merk mobil sport ternama asal Italia ini, menambah bab baru dalam sejarah kemasyurannya. Namun bukan soal mobil dan kecepatannya, kali ini dengan buku yang dijual seharga 275 ribu dolar atau sekitar 2.4 milyar rupiah.

Sydney Morning Herald melaporkan, buku itu hanya tersedia satu kopi di Australia. Buku "Official Ferrari Opus" edisi Enzo "Diamante" itu, memiliki berat 37 kilogram dan dibalut dengan sampul kulit merah buatan tangan. Ada logo kuda jingkrak yang menonjol keluar yang lengkapi dengan taburan 30 berlian langka.

Buku 852 halaman itu, memiliki ukuran 50 x 50 cm dan menyertakan dua ratus ribu kata dan dua ribu gambar. Isinya memuat rincian dari setiap mobil jalanan Ferrari dan mobil balapnya yang pernah dibuat, yang dilengkapi dengan wawancara eksklusif dan profil dari setiap pengendara yang telah melakukan balapan untuk tim Ferrari.

"Opus bukanlah sebuah buku, itu sebuah konser," kata Antonio Ghini, creative advisor untuk Opus. "Opus merupakan opera yang dirangkai dari mobil, teknologi, sejarah dan prestasi, serta pahlawan abadi. Opus, seperti Ferrari, merupakan pengalaman yang unik."

Pemilik buku "Diamante" akan mengikuti penarikan hadiah guna memenangkan sebuah mobil balap F1 Ferrari unik. Versi yang lebih murah dari buku itu juga tersedia, meski masih belum bisa ditemukan di pasaran lokal.

Buku edisi Enzo di banderol seharga 34.925 dolar (Rp308 jutaan), dan terbatas hanya 400 kopi, tampil dengan casing berbahan serat karbon, dan buku itu tersedia dengan penyangga buku yang harus dipesan terlebih dulu yang dirancang oleh perancang interior Candy and Candy. Ada 500 versi buku seri Cavalino Rampante, harganya 6.545 dolar dan ditandatangani oleh sejumlah legenda Ferrari.

Opus yang paling terjangkau harganya adalah "Classic", yang tersedia 4.100 kopi di seluruh dunia. Harganya 3.520 dolar, dan buku itu dibungkus dengan kantong berbahan sutera dan ditandatangani oleh pebalap Ferrari saat ini, Fernando Alonso dan Felipe Massa. (",)v

Sumber : siradel.blogspot.com

Kemegahan Sebuah Mobil Ferrari 250 "Testa Rossa" 1957

Dari sudut pandang Anda melihat, pasti akan memicu keinginan untuk memilikinya. Indah, berharga, dan sangat langka tentunya. Luar biasa memang, Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, 1957, telah laku terjual di Maranello, Italia, pada 17 Mei tahun lalu, dalam lelang "Ferrari Leggenda e Passione".

Ikhwal mulanya, mobil ini dibeli pada bulan Desember 1957, oleh pelatih dan pilot Piero Drogo, Italia. Bernomor chassis 0714TR, debutnya di beberapa lintasan balap Amerika Selatan, termasuk diantaranya 1.000 km di Buenos Aires tahun 1958.

Dijual di AS, yang mana sebelumnya Alan Connell Wayne Burnett , membuat mobil ini berlari sangat kencang dan menang hingga 1963. Mobil cantik menawan dan langka ini (hanya 22 unit di dunia), telah memiliki sejarah balap yang sukses, memenangi 10 dari 19 balapan internasional yang diikutinya.

Berganti tangan kepemilikan pada tahun 1995, kemudian di koleksi oleh orang terkemuka asal Jepang, Matsuda Yoshiho, setelah melalui beberapa kejuaraan balap mobil vintage, termasuk Mille Miglia tahun 1995, 1996, dan 1997, dan laku terjual pada tahun 2005, seharga US$11.000.000.

Pada tanggal 18 Mei 2009, rekor dunia penjualan mobil dalam suatu lelang dipecahkan saat mobil Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, 1957, terjual kepada seseorang yang tidak disebutkan namanya melalui lelang di telepon, dengan harga 9,1 juta Euro (US$12 juta dollar) atau sekitar 122 miliar rupiah, di acara lelang “Ferrari Leggenda e Passione” di Maranello, Italia.

Sekarang ini, Kemegahan Testa Rossa (nama dari warna tappet), meliputi dapur pacu 3 liter V12, dengan tenaga 300 hp, dan di desain semua hitam, kembali ke warna asalnya, dimana mobil ini berlari kencang pada awal karirnya.

Sebelumnya, rekor penjualan mobil dalam lelang juga dipegang oleh Ferrari lainnya, yaitu Ferrari 250 GT SWB Spyder California, berwarna hitam, buatan tahun 1961, yang sebelumnya sempat dimiliki oleh James Coburn, yang laku dijual 7,04 juta Euro (US $10.894.400).

Anda berminat untuk memiliki selanjutnya? Saya pun merasakan keinginan yang sama.

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Sumber : siradel.blogspot.com

Credo E-Bone Designer Peter Simon Takes on the Ferrari Enzo

Remember the humorously named yet somewhat plausible Credo E-Bone? It was a design study for a hydrogen powered bus from Hungarian artist Peter Simon, and with a name like "E-Bone", who could forget?

Well, Simon is back, only this time he's taking on something a little more exotic than public transport: he's envisioning the next generation of Ferrari's legendary Enzo. An ambitious task, though one the Hungarian takes on with a plomb.

With more of his trademark organic styling and a design philosophy that both incorporates and rebuffs Ferrari's past and present models, Simon's Enzo is a wonder to behold. From the look of it, Simon's Enzo was hatched, not styled. I can't help but be reminded of the Mitsuoka Orochi: another organically-styled sports car with love it or hate it styling.

A successor to the original Enzo, of which just 400 were produced between 2002 and 2004, has long been rumored though never confirmed by the Italian automaker itself. Whether you love it or hate it, you have to admit: Peter Simon's Enzo is an interesting response to that brief.

By Tristan Hankins

Source: Peter Simon via Yanko Design

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Quick Chop: Ferrari FF Spider

While we're waiting for Ferrari to release some additional photos with more revealing views of its new four-seat, all-wheel drive, FF sports car, we thought we'd share this photoshop of a Spider version of Maranello's latest creation, made by a reader of a French car site. The chop was created by simply erasing the shooting-break-style roof of the standard FF and adding some details on the car's rear quarter. While it's pointless to pass judgment on the photoshop, it would be interesting to hear if you think a Spider version of the FF with four seats is something that Ferrari should consider building in the near future. Voice your thoughts in the comments section after the jump.

Photoshop via Autoboost

VIDEO: Oops...Ford F-150 Steps Over Ferrari 458 Italia

The owner of a brand new Ferrari 458 Italia with some 500 miles on the odometer in Brandon Florida received a quick lesson on the disadvantages of a low slung sports car in the land of pickup trucks and SUVs when a Ford F-150 ran over its hood. We don't know if the F-150 driver mistook Maranello's creation for a red speed bump or if the Ferrari owner questioned Ford's 'Built Tough' slogan, but something tells us this video is going to become a hit. You can watch the clip after the break.

Via: Autoblog.nl

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Ferrari FF: New Photos of 660HP All-Wheel Drive Four-Seater Supercar

We've already had our first look at the all-new Ferrari FF, or as one Carscoop commenter put it, the... hunchback of Notre Maranello, but the Italian firm released additional photography of its flagship GT model today. Basically, we get one revealing studio shot of an FF finished in a grey color and three images of a prototype development mule clad in camouflage while testing out the four-wheel-drive system over the snow-covered roads of Sweden and Finland.

The new FF replaces the 612 Scaglietti as Ferrari's most practical model boasting seating and luggage space for four. At the heart of the supercar is a 6.3-liter V12 powerhouse pushing out 660-ponies linked to an F1-style dual-clutch transmission. In addition to being practical and powerful, the FF is also the first production Ferrari to come with an all-wheel drive system. According to the Italians, the FF can hit 100km/h (62 mph) in 3.7 seconds and tops out at 335 km/h or 208-mph. For more details as well as the first video of the car, check out our previous post by clicking here.

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