Meet the Ferrari 612 replacement

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It seats four, has four wheel drive and one rear end that would make even Jennifer Lopez insecure. This is the successor to Ferrari’s flagship 612 Scaglietti, currently codenamed the FF (Ferrari Four), in lieu of it being the brand’s first four-wheel drive vehicle.

While the men from Maranello will probably never admit it, we can’t be more delighted to see that the rumours were actually true and that the car did indeed take on the silhouette of a shooting brake.

Powering all four wheels is in fact the speculated 6.3-liter V12 featuring direct injection and pumping out 651hp with 683Nm of torque. All that force proves sufficient to lug the 1,790kg flagship to 100km/h in just 3.7-seconds, a third of a second quicker over its predecessor. If you keep the go-pedal planted, the FF will carry on all the way to 335km/h.

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Ferrari claims that its part-time four-wheel drive system fitted to the FF, dubbed the 4RM, weighs half the weight of a conventional four-wheel drive system, allowing the FF to maintain its rear-biased weight distribution with 53 per cent of the weight over the rear axle.

The four-wheel drive system is completely integrated into the car’s dynamic control system, allowing it to continuously deliver the maximum grip possible on all road conditions via predictive torque vectoring to all the wheels.

Ride and handling is taken care of by the latest magnetorheological damping system (SCM3) with stopping power courtesy of the latest in carbon-ceramic brakes from Brembo.

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Exterior wise, the front gets headlights inspired by the 458 Italia with LED trimmings down the side while the lower fascia sports a sinister grin. The grin is almost saying, “I dare you to call me a breadvan.”

For now though, that’s all we have to report in with. Strangely though, even if the shape is totally left field for the Prancing Horse insignia, there’s something so right about it. We can just imagine ourselves taking the kids to school in this and smoking some hapless BMW Z3M on the way back. No wait, now we’re mistaking it for the Z3M. But honestly, do you really care?



Source: http://www.ferrarifour.com/
 
Absolutely terrible shape! Just like the Enzo, one of the worst looking car ever from Ferrari.
 
aiya, looks like BMW 130i hatchback lah, if pull d back a little bit longer should look better

Exactly! IMHO, the cabin roof should be moved to the front a bit, so more like 2+2 coupe like the Aston Martin, not becoming like an oversized hatchback like that. Ah who cares, I'm not a potential owner anyway!:biggrin:
 

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