Apart from the outside paint coloration and Ferrari badging, what do these automobiles have in frequent? As you possibly can inform from the video under, the 499P Modificata and 296 Problem each rock twin-turbocharged V6 engines.
Italy’s best-known automotive model rolled out its first six-cylinder lump in 1954 within the type of a 3.0L straight-six. Three years later, the Dino venture got here to fruition with the V6-engined 156 F2. The corporate’s first six-cylinder manufacturing automobile was the Dino 206 GT, a two-door berlinetta produced in a bit of over 150 examples.
The 296, nonetheless, is the first-ever Ferrari to sport a six-cylinder. Initially believed to revive the Dino nameplate as a nod to Enzo’s late son Alfredo, the 296 not directly replaces the F8 Tributo within the automaker’s lineup with the world’s strongest series-production V6. The rear-drive supercar makes 819 horsepower at full chatter, of which 654 come from the inner combustion engine.
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Clearly extra shouty than the manufacturing mannequin, the 296 Problem doesn’t function hybrid help. The identical stands true for the 296 GT3, though the Problem is a bit punchier. Formally rated at 700 ps (make that 690 hp), the Problem will make its racing debut in 2024 within the European and North American Ferrari Problem sequence.
The 499P Modificata is all-wheel drive, for it retains the front-mounted electrical motor of the racing automobile. Beneath FIA-ACO rules, the system can’t be pushed larger than 640 kW (that will be 870 ps or 858 hp). Fed by an 800-volt battery developed with the Scuderia’s expertise from the world of Components 1, the electrical motor develops 200 kW (practically 272 ps or 268 hp) in max assault mode.
A distinct animal from the 296 Problem in lots of respects, the 499P Modificata inaugurates the Ferrari Sport Prototipi Clienti program that may run alongside the F1 Clienti program. Merely put, well-to-do individuals will have the ability to expertise full-on racecars whereas Ferrari takes care of logistics, upkeep, and track-side help.
By well-to-do prospects, suppose individuals who don’t thoughts paying €5.1 million earlier than taxes ($5.4 million at present alternate charges). Ferrari didn’t say what number of might be produced, however we do know that it’s a strictly limited-run affair. By comparability, the Maranello-based automaker produced 40 examples of the LaFerrari FXX-Okay.
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