Apparently, there's a Ferrari in everyone's garage, and the brand has become more mainstream than it ever wanted to be. The new plan set forth by Luca di Montezemolo, Ferrari's chairman, will cut production of many of the vehicles in the lineup in an attempt to sell fewer cars than ... Read more
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If you’re seeking speed, grace, and style, you can’t beat (literally) Ferrari. With a lineup of high-performance beauties in production since the 1940s, the Ferrari brand is known for being the ultimate in Italian sports and racing cars. So get the best in Ferrari news and the latest reviews of new models and features here at our blog, written by some of the top experts in the automotive field. Please feel right at home and submit your comments, and of course re-post our entries to your friends and social media crowd.
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Dubai Police Spoil Themselves with 2013 Chevrolet Camaro, Million-Dollar Aston Martin One-77
Back in the day, the D.A.R.E. cop in my hometown drove a 1980s Chevrolet Camaro seized from a drug dealer, the last part of that sentence not-at-all fitting certain stereotypes to a T, right? Right. Today's Chevrolet Camaro SS is a far more sophisticated beast and is now ending up in ... Read more
Caught! 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Testing with Audi R8, Ferrari 458 Italia
To be the best you have to beat the best, and apparently, that's a saying Chevrolet has taken to heart with the C7 Corvette Stingray. These images our spy photographer snapped can attest to that, as a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is seen here testing on public roads with an ... Read more
Video Double Dose: Ferrari FF Drives Epically and Mercedes-Benz Unimog Goes Through Rough Stuff
So if you had a trip to Hawaii to plan, what would you drive? Yeah, a $350,000 Ferrari FF isn't a bad choice. And who from the Motor Trend crew would you bring along? Yeah, we imagine we'd pick host Jessi Lang, too. Arthur St. Antoine picked both the Big Island and ... Read more
Ferrari Takes Shows Behind the Scenes Look at 2014 LaFerrari Photo Shoot
What happens when you mix the hottest supercar in the world, some behind-the-scenes action, and copious amounts of dubstep? Well, you get the below video of the 2014 LaFerrari, the terribly named flagship, yet perhaps the most hotly anticipated car, to come from Ferrari this decade. Ferrari shows us what happens ... Read more
Video: LaFerrari Takes Seconds off Ferrari Enzo’s Lap Time
Debuting at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, Ferrari's newest model is called "LaFerrari," and despite the name, it's the fulfillment of any Ferrari lover's dreams. Not only does it improve on where the previous top-end Ferrari left off--that car was known as the Enzo, after company founder Enzo Ferrari--it has ... Read more
The Top 10 Exotic Vehicles to Debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show
It's no secret that the Geneva Motor Show is known for the wacky, expensive, and sometimes wacky-expensive vehicles that debut there. The 2013 Geneva Motor Show was no different. There aren't many auto shows anywhere in the world that have this many hypercars debuting with mainstream vehicle unveils taking a ... Read more
CES 2013 Wrapup: The Best of the Rest and Looking at the Future’s Promise
This year at the Consumer Electronics Show, automakers showed their best new technology, except some of it wasn't particularly new. Subaru's EyeSight is fantastic in that it brings the same sort of collision avoidance tools used in high-end luxury cars to the masses, albeit with cameras that can recognize people ... Read more
From Tractors to Super Cars: Lamborghini Celebrates 50 Years
The story of Ferruccio Lamborghini is an interesting one, to say the least. Before he founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A. back in 1963, Lamborghini cut his teeth as a mechanic in the Italian Royal Air Force. Before Lamborghini started building exotic sportscars that bared his name though, he first went ... Read more
Confirmed: Porsche 961 on the Way to Compete Against Ferrari 458 Italia
It's official, the gauntlet has been thrown down. Porsche CEO Matthias Muller has announced that the German automaker is working on its next project, and it's going to be a doozy. The Porsche 961 is a supercar that will rival the Ferrari 458 Italia. That's quite a lofty goal for ... Read more
WOT Chronicles the Life and Times of the Late Designer Sergio Pininfarina
Who is Sergio Pininfarina? He's the man responsible for the look of that Ferrari you taped to your wall as a kid. He's the man responsible for shaping the design of that little Alfa Romeo Dustin Hoffman drove in The Graduate. ... Read more
Legendary Car Designer Sergio Pininfarina Dies at 85
A man who can deservedly be labeled as "legendary," car designer Sergio Pininfarina died today at the age of 85. Over the course of his 40-year career running his namesake design studio, Pininfarina (shown above with Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezemolo) oversaw some of the most beautiful ... Read more
International Engine of the Year Awards Feature Engines You Can’t Have
The International Engine of the Year Awards were announced today and the dozens of international automotive journalists with hundreds of combined years of experience have chosen Ford’s 1.0-liter 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine as the year’s best. Unfortunately, you can’t have it—yet. Worse still, you can’t have the second-, third-, fifth-best engines in ... Read more
Scottish Man Destroys Ferrari 612 Scaglietti With An Axe
Because jokes about William Wallace and angry, bearded gingers in kilts never get old, a man in Scotland smashed the bloody 'ell out of a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti for seemingly no particular reason. The man had some opinions on the flaunting of personal wealth in a consumer-driven economy that allows wealth ... Read more
1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Sells for $35 Million in Private Transaction Becoming Most Expensive Car
If you're lucky enough to get your hands on one of the 39 Ferrari GTOs produced from 1962 to 1964, hold on tight and never let go. Why? Because a 1962 GTO netted $35 million in a private sale last month making it the most expensive car ever sold to ... Read more
Ferrari 599 XX Evo Auction to Help Earthquake Victims
In the wake of recent earthquakes in the Emilia Romangna region of Italy, Ferrari is hosting an online auction to help victims. An initial 6.0 earthquake in the area was then followed nine days later by another quake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale. The death toll has risen to ... Read more
Lamborghini, Ferrari, and Maserati Halt Production in Wake of Second Earthquake
In wake of a second earthquake this month, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and Maserati have all halted production of factories in the region until tomorrow. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook the province of Modena at 9 a.m. local time and an aftershock that registered 5.6-magnitude on the Richter scale occurred three hours later. ... Read more
Recall Round-up: Ferrari 458 Italia, California and Lexus GS 350 F Sport
Ferrari has previously announced that it is recalling some of its 458 Italia models produced between 2011 and 2012 and all California models made in 2012 due to incorrect machining to the crankshaft. This can spell trouble for Ferrari ... Read more
Ferrari Hydroplane That Broke Speed Record to Sell in Monaco
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
Fury Over Ferrari 458 Italia Doing Doughnuts on Ancient Chinese Wall
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
Vibrating Crankshafts Shake Up Ferrari 458, California Sports Car Recall
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
Week In Review: Ferrari Hybrids, Hyper-Expensive Sedans, and Chinese Auto Shows
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
News of the Carpocalypse: A Ferrari Hybrid is Really Happening
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
Ferrari Commemorates 20 Years in China with Special Edition 458 Italia
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
Epic Drives Episode 3: Chevrolet Corvette ZR1′s Excellent Italian Adventure
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

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