Two German car tuner companies, Unique Sportscar and Novitec Rosso, have teamed with artist Knud Tiroch to create a Ferrari F430 that now sports unique tattoo-like skull and ornate artwork, as well as injecting it with a whopping 520kW (707HP) and 712Nm of torque. The finished product is known as [...]

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After a stunt driver’s job of threading through traffic in New York’s Times Square ended in a collision with the wall of a Sbarro’s restaurant, Nicolas Cage and Disney will be hoping the crash isn’t prophetic for the star’s upcoming film.

The crash saw two bystanders injured, although it’s difficult from the footage to make out [...]

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The FIA GT3 European Championship has announced that - subject to FIA approval - the Ferrari Scuderia GT3 developed by Kessel Racing will contest the 2009 GT3 championship.

The Scuderia GT3 will be a development of the 2007 FIA GT3 European Championship-winning 430 GT3, itself a development of the Ferrari F430.

Three teams have expressed interest in [...]

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British motoring rag AutoExpress has hurled an interesting image at the world of what is supposedly the internals of the upcoming 2010 Honda NSX (or Acura NSX for our US friends).  There’s nothing to say this is an official image, but if it isn’t, it’s a bloody dedicated (and clairvoyant?) fan who’s put this one [...]

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The name might not be familiar but his work certainly is - Frank Stephenson has been involved in the design of the modern MINI, the Fiat 500, Alfa’s MiTo, and BMW’s X5 to name but a few.

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This news is surprising to say the least. We’ve just received a press release confirming that Ferrari outsold the Porsche 911 (according to official VFACTS figures) for the month of July.

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Earlier this year reports were swirling about that Ferrari would begin allowing customers, albeit extremely wealthy ones, the opportunity to take an F430, Enzo, or 612 Scaglietti and have it reworked by one of Ferrari’s trusted coachbuilders. Now cast your eyes over one of the first vehicles to make its way through the program.

Spotted at [...]

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We thought we were going to see it at the 2007 Sydney Motor Show but it was not to be, however we have today received confirmation that Ferrari will display a 430 Scuderia at the 2008 Melbourne International Motor Show beginning the 29th of February.
“The Ferrari 430 Scuderia is the epitome of everything that makes Ferrari [...]

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With the news today that Jaguar’s XF took out the “Best Executive Car” at What Car? COTY, it would be remiss of us not to have a quick look at which car won the “Performance Cars / Hot Hatches” category.

“Staggering performance, brilliant handling, great refinement and everyday usability”, was enough to win the title for [...]

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As part of its programme to reduce the fuel consumption and emissions of its cars by 40 percent by 2012, Ferrari have engineered an F430 that runs on E85 fuel – a blend of 85 percent bio-renewable ethanol and 15 percent petrol. Dubbed the Ferrari F430 Spider BioFuel, it was revealed earlier this week at [...]

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The Ferrari F430 Scuderia is, its fair to say the darling of the Ferrari camp right now. Generally regarded as one of the very best sorted road going Fezzas ever to leave the Maranello workshops it is capable of lapping Ferrari’s Fiorano test track in the same time as an Enzo, give or take a [...]

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The UK’s prestige and performance motor show MPH ’07 has conducted a poll in order to determine the average persons perfect car and passenger, with the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione and Scarlett Johansson coming up trumps – and who could blame the Brits for this outcome.

Scarlett received 23 percent of the vote and narrowly beat [...]

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