Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano Review - CarAdvice
2011 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano , 6. 0-litre V12, petrol, six-speed F1 automated manual transmission, rear-wheel drive. Ferrari claims to be highly protective of its image. It goes to enormous lengths to ensure its cars win every group test in every magazine, supplying a team of technicians to ensure they are perfectly set up while other manufacturers simply supply a car that’s been valeted and had the tank brimmed. It only allows journalists to drive the cars if their write-ups are seen in ‘the right places’ and the lists of dos and don’ts is enormous. Image, it reasons, is critical to the success of the brand – something I find difficult to reconcile with the fact that my local petrol station gives away tacky official Ferrari merchandise to customers that buy enough fuel. And as for Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, well the less said about that the better. No other company I deal with has this approach and, like many of my colleagues, I feel like giving Ferrari a kicking because of it. Horror stories abound regarding the terrible way it treats the media and customers alike and part of me wants to... But I can’t bring myself to do it because Ferrari builds cars like the Ferrari 458 Italia and this: the 599 GTB Fiorano. Ferrari’s 599 GTB Fiorano, to give it its full title, has been with us since 2007. And it isn’t, no matter what you might think, a bona fide supercar. Source: www.caradvice.com.au
