20 Luxury Ferrari Car Photos

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Ferrari FF and Lamborghini Aventador Both Sold Out for their First Year of Production

They are two of the most hotly anticipated and talked about cars at this week's 2011 Geneva International Motor Show. We're talking of course about the Ferrari's first ever four-wheel drive model, the FF, and Lamborghini's replacement for the Murcielago, the Aventador LP700-4.

Though catering to different tastes and needs, these two supercars have something in common, and we're not referring to their Italian roots nor their twelve-cylinder powerplants, but to the fact that both are sold out for their first year of production even before they arrive in showrooms across the world.

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Geneva 2011: Novitec Rosso Ferrari 458 Italia makes sexy and fast look sexier and go faster

Novitec Rosso 458 Italia - Click above for high-res image gallery

Novitec Rosso has thing for the Prancing Horse. It routinely turns its wrenches on the cars of the Ferrari stable and shows them a new level of power. At this week's 2011 Geneva Motor Show, Novitec has focused ts attention on the Ferrari 458 Italia, and the results are stunning.

The "standard" Ferrari 458 Italia produces 562 horsepower and 398 pound-feet of torque from its mid-mounted 4.5-liter V8. Novitec utilizes new engine mapping, and a different exhaust manifold and exhaust system to raise output to 609 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque. The tuning company has also managed to raise the redline from 9,000 to 9,100 rpm, which doesn't sound like much but could help earn a few more ticks at the top end of the speedo.

Besides the engine work, Novitec has upgraded the 458's suspension, lightened the wheels and added carbon fiber to various locations all over the car. The resulting Novitec Rosso 458 is lighter, louder and faster than your run-of-the-mill Italia. It's also pretty damn good looking to boot.

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Ferrari targets fast-lane families with FF supercar

With 450-liters (15.9 cubic feet) of trunk space, the FF has ample room for four passengers and their luggage.

GENEVA (Bloomberg) – Ferrari S.p.A., Fiat S.p.A.'s most profitable unit, will target wealthy families and golf bag-toting sports-car enthusiasts when it introduces the four-seat FF, the first Ferrari with four-wheel drive.

The car, launched today at the Geneva auto show, will be priced at 260,000 euros ($359,000), Ferrari said. The 660-horsepower FF, which stands for Ferrari Four, accelerates to 100 kilometers (62 miles) an hour in 3.7 seconds.
"Four-wheel drive is a revolution for Ferrari owners," said Fabio Barone, 38, chairman of the Passione Rossa owners' club, who owns two Ferraris. "You can finally drive a real Ferrari, with its extreme performance, to take your family skiing."
Supercar sales are growing amid renewed optimism in the finance industry after the U.S. economy expanded 2.9 percent last year, the most in five years. U.S. sales of the world's most expensive cars, a category that includes Ferraris and spans sticker prices from $200,000 to $400,000, may surge 146 percent this year after dropping 40 percent in 2010, according to Lexington, Massachusetts-based IHS Automotive.
The FF is "a different Ferrari for different Ferrari owners," Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said at the car's introduction to clients and dealers, webcast on Feb. 23. "This is a Ferrari that can be used for families and for long trips."
The FF "can comfortably accommodate four people and their luggage," with a 450-liter (15.9 cubic feet) trunk, extendable to 800 liters with the back seats down, more than many sedans, Ferrari said on its website. The trunk and cabin space are the biggest in the category, according to the company.
"Ferrari is widening its offer to niches it didn't cover before," said AT Kearney analyst Marco Santino. "It may be a winning strategy if they are bringing something really new to the market." Lamborghini S.p.A., Italy-based Ferrari's main competitor, has used four-wheel drive technology already.
Lamborghini reveal

Lamborghini unveiled its Aventador supercar at the Geneva show. The car will be the carmaker's most powerful series production vehicle ever.
The Aventador, which has an engine that surges to 100 kilometers per hour in 2.9 seconds, will replace the Volkswagen AG brand's top-of-the-line Murcielago. The supercar, priced at $370,000, is already sold out for its first year of production, a person with direct knowledge of the plan said last month.
Ferrari in 2010 posted a 13 percent increase in sales in the U.S., the biggest market for supercars. Employees at big Wall Street banks continued to outpace other professions in earnings even as they took modest pay cuts in 2010.
Ferrari is also trying to boost profit by adding products and expanding in fast-growing countries such as China, where its sales increased 44 percent in 2010, and India, where it will open a first dealership in Mumbai in coming months. Ferrari opened a theme park in Abu Dhabi last year.
Fiat has said it may consider selling a stake in Ferrari to raise cash. "Ferrari is a significant repository of value," CEO Sergio Marchionne said Jan. 27 on a conference call with analysts. "We've made no commitment about executing a partial divestiture strategy or retaining our current shareholding" in the company, he said.

'Prize asset'

Ferrari "is the prize asset of the new Fiat auto, with high margins, high growth and a unique brand value," Max Warburton, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in London, wrote in a note to clients on Feb. 2. He estimates that Ferrari and Fiat's Maserati brand may be worth a combined 3.5 billion euros.
Ferrari's earnings before interest, taxes and one-time items, which Fiat calls trading profit, rose 27 percent to 303 million euros in 2010 as revenue reached 1.9 billion euros. Fiat's auto unit began trading separately from the company's industrial operations on Jan. 3.
Marchionne in April announced a five-year plan for Ferrari and Maserati, calling for the two luxury brands to almost double revenue to about 4 billion euros by 2014 by adding products and widening their model ranges.

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Ferrari Introduces Its Latest Golden Enzo Spotted Luxurious Car

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Many of the luxurious car models are launch everyday in market but now here is once again Ferrari introduces its latest Golden Enzo spotted model car in Europe. This is the most luxurious model with smart functionality and a great design it has includes excellent features. Whether the Enzo has in fact been painted gold or just covered is still not known.
This is the new generation of amazing gold painted Ferrari model car it has internal features it is totally air-conditioning also its seat is smooth you feel comfort its wheels are also running smoothly you can drive this car anywhere easily it's a fantastic offer of Ferrari.
Chromed-out super cars are all the temper, and not all of them look that bad, but the further visually scratchy gold has so distant been limited to a few Mercedes models spotted in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. In market there are also Mercedes benz model is available with latest version.
Golden Ferrari Enzois the newest from of luxury car its designs and shape looks attractive it has also excellent engine power. In market I have seen many other gold painted cars but Ferrari is one of the best car this gold painted model looks unique and attractive it looks so impressive!

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Ferrari FF 2012

Ferrari made a shooting brake, all-wheel-drive car and the automotive world split into three camps: love it, hate it, and meh. The latest details on the Ferrari's FF all-wheel drive system may not change that fact, but it's sure to intrigue all camps--and spark endless rounds of debate, particularly with fans of the equally-new Lamborghini Aventador.

What's the deal with Ferrari's new system? It uses two separate transmissions for the front and rear axles--and it's only all-wheel drive in first through fourth gears, despite the presence of seven forward gears in the primary gearbox. The front transmission is driven off a conical gear at the front of the engine, and has two speeds that span the ranges of the first four gears in the main box.

Ferrari says the torque delivered to the rear wheels (remember, gear multiplication/reduction) in fifth through seventh gears is easily handled by the rear wheels alone.

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