Ferrari News

We're all about cars here at Automotive.com, but when a boat with a Ferrari engine that was designed to be the fastest thing on water goes up for sale, well, naturally, our interest is piqued. The 1953 Timossi-Ferrari "Arno XI" racing hydroplane set a world record for speed on water, and ...    Read more

If Ferrari wanted press, it's sure getting it. The famed Italian automaker is coming under heat after a video showing a Ferrari 458 Italia doing doughnuts and burning out on an ancient wall in China has surfaced on the internet. The wall is located in Nanjing, China, and dates back ...    Read more

Ferrari is known around the world for the high-pitched scream of its V-8 and V-12 engines. These high-revving masterpieces are built to racecar specs, literally, as the tolerances required for them are exacting. Which makes it all the more surprising that Ferrari is recalling a small batch of its 458 and ...    Read more

The biggest story of the week was the Beijing Auto Show. No longer a backmarker on the show circuit, Beijing is rapidly becoming a must-attend event for automakers and auto journalists alike. And, not surprisingly, there were some pretty major announcements, and a few sneak peeks of what we might ...    Read more

In yet another sign of the coming CAFE-inspired carpocalypse, Ferrari is moving beyond the experimental phase on its new HY-KERS, a hybrid electric two-motor power plant with kinetic energy recovery system for its next megasupercar, the F12berlinetta. The F12berlinetta with HY-KERS—which as the name implies, comes with a traditional Ferrari V-12—promises ...    Read more

The year 2012 marks two decades of Ferrari being on sale to the public and the Italian automaker has decided to honor the milestone with a special edition 458 Italia. On top of the specialized super car, Ferrari will also run its first permanent brand exhibition outside of its Marenello ...    Read more

Testosterone flows in episode three of Motor Trend's Epic Drive. Motor Trend's Editor at Large Angus MacKenzie teams again with MT's Best Driver's Car co-host and GT2 Class winner at Le Mans' Justin Bell for male-to-male banter on the streets of Europe. No, not streets, but highways, specifically one: the ...    Read more

It appears the recent spike in fuel prices nationwide has even reached not just the one percent, but the one percent's one percent. To combat this issue, luxury Italian automaker Ferrari is working on a V-12 hybrid powertrain that could see action in the successor to the Enzo supercar. While ...    Read more

A great man once said, "money doesn't buy brains." Another great man also once said "branded driving gloves are for wimps," though I'm not sure who that was, and in fact that might have been me. Either way, a Japanese man and his Fifteen Minutes Of YouTube Fame are reeling ...    Read more

It's safe to say Enzo Ferrari and his car company can be held accountable for some of the fastest and sleekest cars the world has ever seen.  From timeless greats like the 250 GTO all the way up to the recent addition of the 458 Italia, it's no secret Ferrari ...    Read more

Next week, automobile manufacturers, executives, and journalists from around the world will gather in the snowy confines of Geneva, Switzerland. There, they will ignore the lake, the scenery, and pretty much everything else that makes this historic city, well, historic, and instead gather into a convention center (which looks like ...    Read more

Guaranteed to be more fun than, say, watching Forbes editors pick stock portfolios: Watching Motor Trend pick the top driver's car of 2011 will certainly involve lots of expensive metal, loud engines, a real-life racing driver, and the occasional—ok, plenty of—powerslides. And there's a lot to pick from! There's the Lexus ...    Read more

Anytime iconic supercar producer Ferrari rolls out an all-new model it has everyone's undivided attention. In today's installment of Video of the Day, Ferrari teases us by showing one of its supercars on the assembly line prepping for its life in the fast lane (or so it hopes). The Ferrari F620 ...    Read more

Geneva's a peaceful city, usually where countries meet up to share a bucket of fried chicken and talk about their differences. But there's one time of year when it plays host to an all-out war: auto show season. In between Chicago and New York, Geneva is situated as the exotic ...    Read more

After all of the leaks and early unveils over the past few days, there's little reason to physically attend the 2012 Geneva Motor Show next month. Joining the likes of the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque convertible concept, Ferrari has been caught off guard as its latest coupe has been ...    Read more

The "most powerful Ferrari ever" might be too much of a good thing. Does the famed Italian manufacturer's supercars really need more power? After all, even free ice cream for life gets old after a while. And if it was Christmas every day, it takes the magic out of receiving ...    Read more

Resembling the unholy union between a Ferrari 355, a Cars character and an 19th century milling accident, this art piece, called "12 Miles of Yarn," comes from the fevered imagination of Lauren Porter, a 22-year old British art student who cites the piece as "an example of how opposites can ...    Read more

When Audi launched the R8, a racecar turned production vehicle in 2006, company execs knew customers would want it. Turns out they were right. The Audi R8 supercar has found 15,537 worldwide owners since its debut in 2006, not including 2011. While the much anticipated second-generation Audi R8 is still ...    Read more

A third teaser of the Pininfarina Cambiano has been revealed, and this one appears to be even more abstract than the previous images released by the Italian design firm. This one appears to show the top of the car from the driver's door, which took us here a second ...    Read more

Yesterday we saw the front headlight (and some inexplicable floating orbs) of the Pininfarina Cambiano, the Italian design studio's sports sedan concept. And today, like a ransom note from a frustrated kidnapper, the company has released a second teaser—and it's just as pinkish as ever. This shot shows a view of ...    Read more

Pininfarina has a new object of desire to tantalize us with, and like only the best seductresses, it’s not going to reveal everything at once. The Cambiano—doesn’t that just slide off the tongue like a piece of caramel toffee? Say it a few times with me. Cambiano. Cambiano—is the famed Italian ...    Read more

Santa. Sinterklaas. Kris Kringle. Saint Nicholas. No matter what you call him, most of us imagine him as a jolly bearded man in red velour who delivers presents to all of the good boys and girls. For those who don’t fall under that criterion, sorry, you get coal. Or a ...    Read more

When the one-percenters crash, they do so in spectacular fashion. Looking like a scene from a Michael Bay movie, eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini and two Mercedes-Benzes piled up on a Japanese freeway, in the most expensive automotive accident since a 28-car Hot Wheels orange-track massacre that occurred in my basement ...    Read more

Andrea Bertolini just had one of those days where anything and everything went right. The Italian driver for Swiss Team captured the checkered flag for both the morning and afternoon race and secured the title for the International circuit. If the Superstars Series sounds foreign to you don't panic: ...    Read more

It’s nearing that holiday season, so you know what that means—Neiman Marcus, big-box purveyor of fantastical luxury goods, is offering another exclusive car for sale from their Fantasy Gifts collection. And this year it’s the store’s most lavish prize: a 651-horsepower 2012 Ferrari FF. At $395,000, the Neiman version ...    Read more