As reported by Worldcarfans, Ferrari has an SUV in the works. This is sad. Very sad.
Specs are typical of overpowered SUVs: weight comes in at a portly 2.2 TONS (yes, thats about TWICE what my Miata weighs) and the engine produces 600 hp. It has 4 wheel drive and a bunch of other fancy things that shouldn’t interest anyone who likes Ferraris. Off-road capabilities were apparently low on the priorities list for the Ferrari design team, which simply makes the 599 a really bad joke.
Why oh why would you design a 5000 lb refrigerator to be sportive on the ROAD?? How do you reconcile producing the Enzo (already a bit overly techno-whizzbanged) that at least PERFORMS and then producing this? The 599 will do nothing well. It is too heavy to accelerate fast (0-60 is around 5 seconds, which is forever with 600 hp), too much like a brick wall to go fast, and waaaay too heavy to corner even half decently.
I’ll take my Miata, thank you very much.
And to top it off, its ugly too.
on November 19, 2007 at 6:29 pm Richard C. wrote:
I could have sworn reading very recently they said they would never build anything other than two-seaters and never appeal to the family market…
on November 19, 2007 at 9:34 pm Noah wrote:
Too bad the money speaks louder to them than not making an SUV. Which is funny, since Ferrari shouldn’t have any issues whatsoever with making money.
on November 21, 2007 at 12:34 am Sam wrote:
Ye gads what’s next? Apparently profit margins>soul.
on November 21, 2007 at 11:42 am Noah wrote:
Yea, I was really hoping Ferrari would hold out. Porsche appeals to a wider range of people, so that I understand. But there really is no reason for Ferrari to do this. They really just need to produce more of the cars they already have if they want to make more money.