599 Replacement Will Pound Out “More Than 700 HP,” but “Not Because of the Aventador”

"We revealed a little earlier today that Ferrari’s 2012 successor for its Enzo supercar will be a carbon-fiber missile powered by a V-12 mounted midships and augmented by a hybrid system.

In the same interview, Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa also confirmed that the replacement for the 599GTB—also scheduled to arrive in 2012—will retain its front-engine arrangement and will be constructed not of carbon composites, but largely from aluminum alloys. But, we asked, must the car have at least 700 hp to match the new Lamborghini Aventador?

“We are selling cars, not horsepower,” said Felisa. Then in what we must assume was feigned ignorance, Felisa asked exactly how much horsepower the Aventador makes. We told him 700, which is the Lamborghini-provided figure. (We convert that number, which is measured in PS, to 691 SAE net horsepower.)

Felisa’s reply: “We’ll have more than 700 horsepower.” He paused long enough to thwack us on the shoulder before continuing, “but it’s not because of the Aventador.”

The current 599GTB makes 612 hp and the GTO version made 661, so 700 isn’t too far off. Ferrari earlier indicated in official future-product plans that the 599 replacement will be a more extreme performance machine than the current car and also, of course, more expensive. We expect the car to appear at next March’s Geneva auto show."

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Please offer a manual option!!!

 

I think, what he really means,is, the 700hp is because of the Aventador. These Italians and their ironies

 

let it first have four tail lights to lose the z4 look
and then wiiiiden that ass

then work on the engine

 

This.

 

Manuals are over in Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mclaren, etc...

 

I do miss the 4 tail light look

 

a boy can dream can't he?

 

Every car keeps getting more and more powerful each time...When is this crap gonna end?

I don't wanna see a 1500hp Ferrari in 2020.

 

eventually it will be all about power to weight ratio. you can only get so far and practical with high hp, so the next step would be to start researching into making cars as light as possible but keeping the hp the same as before.