2006 Ferrari 599GTB Fiorano - First Drive Review - Car and Driver (blog)
The sun lay warm on our faces as writer and photographer sat in a hillside meadow with a hawk's view of Italy's Apennine peaks where a glorious spring afternoon was nestling in with the fragrance of wild rosemary, the buzz of bumblebees, and the... You can stroll from the Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy, to Ferrari's test track in nearby Fiorano in about 20 minutes, but several light-years separate the outgoing 575 Maranello from the incoming 599GTB Fiorano. The old front-engine V-12 two-seater launched in 1996 as the 550 and updated in 2002 as the 575 was definitely gran turismo , meaning heavy — it will probably be the last Ferrari ever built from steel — and slightly soft in the springs. Amedeo Felisa, Ferrari's vice general manager, says the company wanted to nudge the model away from the sybaritic GT class with its big-as-a-bus 612 Scaglietti and into the performance category as senior officer to the enthralling F430. For those... As with the rest of Ferrari's catalog, the 599 is a mix of aluminum extrusions, flat panels, stampings, and sand-core castings welded and riveted up by the Scaglietti body shop. Ferrari puts the 599's curb weight a few degrees north of 3700. Source: www.caranddriver.com
