Monday, January 14, 2013

NECK BRACE REQUIRED: The Fastest Ferrari Ever

Top Gear got a hold of the F12 Berlinetta and lists a few of the stunning metrics...

Let’s not get carried away, because we need to put this car into context first. And the best way to do that is to put some facts at your fingertips. So, open brain and absorb the following: it has 730bhp and 509lb ft of torque, stats which give it a 211mph maximum and a 0-62mph of 3.1secs. 0-124mph is dealt with in 8.5secs, so 0-100mph must be around the 6.5 second mark. That makes this an astonishingly fast car – Ferrari’s fastest ever road car, in fact. Quicker than the Enzo, quicker than the 599 GTO. And not just in a straight line. It gets round Ferrari’s own Fiorano track faster than both of them, too.


...It has the sharpest steering rack of any Ferrari, carbon ceramic brakes that now have more top end bite, and bodyroll has been reduced by 30 per cent from the 599. Turn in is 20 per cent faster, and you’ll use 15 per cent less steering angle, the engineers claim.

But it’s been so well honed. The brakes, steering, throttle, gearbox, all do exactly what you expect. There’s no slack or slop at all, so you always know where you are with it. It sounds ridiculous to say that a car with 730bhp (the same as a Pagani Huayra, let’s not forget) is a doddle to drive, but this one really is. It drives cleanly and precisely...

And speaking of the Pagani Huayra...


Hat tip: BadBlue Car News.

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