According to tuning house Novitec Rosso, not even a Ferrari 430 Scuderia Spider 16M is enough to please some exclusive customers. And so here’s a tuning recipe dedicated to 499 cars of the Italian spider: new alloy wheels, bronzed rear lights, but especially a dizzying performance upgrade.

The V8 4.3 litre engine passes from 510 to a whopping 717 hp thanks to a twin turbo kit and a series of mechanical upgrades. The car will still have a top speed of 348 km/hr, reach 100 km/hr in 3.5 seconds, and to hit 300 km/hr you’ll 26.1 seconds (of sheer terror?). A possible limit of 696 hp could be imposed, but that’s still enough to get the wind in the hair of some customers.

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Ferrari will present both its 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE and the 599 XX (described by Ferrari as a “technological laboratory”) at the Geneva show. You can see the former in this official image, while the latter underlines the many advanced solutions that Ferrari will debut.

The 599 XX will be reserved for a select group of customers, with the opportunity of testing some of the F1 technology that has never previously been present on a road model.

The 599 GTB “HGTE” means “Handling GT Evoluzione”, and a new metallic red will be used for the occasion of its debut. The 599 XX will have the F1 2008 livery, while the Ferrari stand will feature the Formula 1 vehicle itself.

Other recent road models on display will be a grey titanium Scuderia Spider 16M, a racing red 430 Scuderia and a metallic black California with sandy interior.

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Some intriguing reports regarding the 2009 heir to the Ferrari F430 have appeared on a Ferrari forum, and this time they seem quite credible. The mid-engined car could be presented in October this year and released on the market come January 2010, according to Ferrari Chat.

So far, the new Ferrari would be called the F450 according to this forum, but other reports also have the moniker predicted as F470. Whatever the case, prudence is probably the best bet as we wait to see more news over the next few months.

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“Why Ferraris have lost their beauty” could be the topic for an entire thesis on Italian car design and automobile history, but as it happens, Gavin Green writing in Car, has put together a simple but effective piece on the new Ferrari style.

Green seems to be a real fan of Ferrari, and someone who knows them well, so we can assume he hasn’t written the piece to increase readership. Basically he says that while modern Ferrari models have maintained, and even developed if that’s possible, the pure driving style, the beauty has been lost along the way.

But as the capability has blossomed, the beauty has been besmirched. Ferraris aren’t gorgeous any more. The California has a fat arse. The 612 is fussy and ill-proportioned. The Enzo is more bug than bird. Even the F430 lacks the visual grace and profile poetry of the old F355, the last lovely Ferrari.

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After the presentation of the lovely Ferrari California, Ferrari fans will be eager to know developments on the heir to the F430, the little sedan with central V8 engine which is perhaps more emblematic of the brand. The name is likely to be F470 but not necessarily the V8 4.7L.

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Crisis is not a word that exists at the Ferrari headquarters, with the company realising in the third quarter of 2008, sales of up to 450 million euros, equal to a growth of 22.3 percent compared to the same period last year.

The sales are due in particular to the 430 Scuderia and the prestigious 599 GTB Fiorano. 1,520 vehicles were delivered in the period in question - an impressive figure. Ferrari has closed the period with profits of 79 million euros (equal to 17.6 percent of earnings), an increase of 41.1 percent compared to the 56 million euros of the same period in 2007.

The brand experienced a growth of 21.1 percent in the first nine months of 2008, a total of 1,419 million euros with 5,026 cars delivered. Profits were up 54.8 percent in these nine months, to 243 million euros, compared to the 157 million euros of last year. For the immediate future, Ferrari can only smile, knowing that the Ferrari California is already sold out until 2011. Crisis? Hardly!

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After having anticipated that a Ferrari 430 Scuderia Spider would be made in a limited edition of the Maranello, Ferrari has so far not confirmed or denied the news, but now does so in a veiled way.

In the new presentation film dedicated to California customers, the office of Dany Bahar, Global Sales and Brand Director, is decorated with a photo of a yellow 430 Scuderia Spider. At this point, we’ll wait for the official presentation at the Mugello Ferrari finals in November. From the small image it’s not easy to see whether modifications have been made, though we hope Ferrari is not going down the path of a luxury spider and will stick to the extreme principles of the Scuderia.

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The rumours look like they’re finally being confirmed, despite the “oxymoron” present in the fact that Ferrari will present a spider version of the 430 Scuderia by the end of the year. For some, this is purely a marketing move as the glamour of a spider version is the antithesis of the high demand for the minimalist and pure style of the Scuderia.

The only hope is that the spider will keep to lightweight and sporty principles with no compromises, as it currently weighs 70 kg more than the coupè. Ferrari intends on creating a limited series, probably aimed at collectors, in 300 units of a model likely to presented at the finals of the Challenge Ferrari championship at Mugello in November.

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