2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
Monday, April 17th, 2006
A classic mid-front V12 Ferrari two-seater good for close to 210 mph: What could be more fun? This 575M Maranello replacement looks new in Ferrari styling terms even though the windshield is carryover. This 2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano is something special.
At first glance the GTB’s styling seems to mimic its larger 4-seat brother, the 612 Scgalietti. Both share the same front end design which Pininfarina now sets as the enduring face of Ferrari, but unlike the 612, the 599 has an entirely new roof line and much tidier rear end treatment with two sexy rear buttresses.
Underneath its purposeful skin, the 599 retains the same front engine V12 layout which the 550/575 Maranello line successfully reintroduced, and to make up for its longer chassis, the 599 uses a 6.0-liter engine engineered from the same engine found in the Enzo supercar! With it, the 599 is the most powerful front engine Ferrari!
Like all Ferraris, the 599 comes with a range of options, and for the spirited customers the ‘Racing and Track’ options include CCM (Carbon Ceramic Material) brakes, 20 inch Challenge one-piece rims with run-flat tyres, four-point harnesses and a cockpit roll-bar.
Attached to this engine and sitting in the rear, is a considerably upgraded flappy paddle tranmission that changes gears in just 100ms. And if that isn’t enough, maybe the ‘F1-SuperFast system’ nomenclature is. Unfortunately, Ferrari’s fully electronic E-Differential is absent in the 599.
Everything else is new, coming to us now after four years of a dramatic battle within Ferrari and Pininfarina. The 599 fixes all of the proportion issues of the 612 Scaglietti, mostly by chucking any notion of having two rear seats. The 611 hp maxing at 7600 rpm from the 5999-cc V12 adapted from the Enzo doesn’t hurt, either.
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