Twin-turbocharged sophistication - CNET
Plenty of cars have been named after plenty of places on the globe, and sometimes it's obvious that shrewd product planners did their homework. You can easily imagine a Chevrolet Bel Air cruising down Sunset Boulevard, for example, and if you must go exploring northern Canada, we can think of worse rides than the Toyota Tundra. For geographic-appropriate naming, few have done better than Ferrari did when it unveiled the California in 2008, and now there's a new, more-powerful model, the $198,973 California T. It's a drop-top roadster that's perfect for seeing all the... 2008's Ferrari California was a hard-top convertible with a 453-horsepower V-8 mounted in the traditional place: up front under the hood. Power went to the rear wheels, also traditional, but was directed through Ferrari's first double-clutch gearbox, a seven-speed capable of changing cogs in milliseconds. In the new California T the formula stays the same, but a few key variables have changed. The biggest, literally and metaphorically, is a new motor under the hood. The outside is refreshed as well, the car wearing a new, more purposeful visage. Source: www.cnet.com
