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The 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO is all new.
Introduction
The 2011 599 GTO represents the pinnacle (so far) from Ferrari, as the company's fastest road car ever built. The GTO also takes a few playbook pages from the 599XX, Ferrari's rare racetrack-only variant. Further complicating a 599 GTO acquisition is its estimated cost of $750,000. Ouch.
In producing the 599 GTO—the fastest-ever Ferrari road car, at least in terms of lap times around Ferrari’s home track (Fiorano)—the engineers in Maranello, Italy, focused on four key areas: increasing power, decreasing weight, reducing understeer and improving downforce.
Ferrari says the GTO’s 6.0-liter V-12 is “about 90 percent of the 599XX’s engine.” Besides adopting the 599XX’s crankshaft and intake system, the GTO V-12 has new connecting rods and pistons, raised 11.9:1 compression (up from the GTB’s 11.2: 1 ratio) and the 599XX’s lighter (and 8-decibel louder) exhaust—with catalytic converters, of course. The result is 661 bhp at 8250 rpm and 458 lb.-ft. of torque at 6500 rpm, which make the 599 GTO the most powerful road-going Ferrari ever.
Besides being more powerful, the 599 GTO is 220 lb. lighter than the GTB (which weighed 3865 lb. on our scales). Ferrari says these brakes were absolutely required to cope with the Ferrari 599’s increased performance level.
The 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO is all new.Introduction
The 2011 599 GTO represents the pinnacle (so far) from Ferrari, as the company's fastest road car ever built. The GTO also takes a few playbook pages from the 599XX, Ferrari's rare racetrack-only variant. Further complicating a 599 GTO acquisition is its estimated cost of $750,000. Ouch.
In producing the 599 GTO—the fastest-ever Ferrari road car, at least in terms of lap times around Ferrari’s home track (Fiorano)—the engineers in Maranello, Italy, focused on four key areas: increasing power, decreasing weight, reducing understeer and improving downforce.
Ferrari says the GTO’s 6.0-liter V-12 is “about 90 percent of the 599XX’s engine.” Besides adopting the 599XX’s crankshaft and intake system, the GTO V-12 has new connecting rods and pistons, raised 11.9:1 compression (up from the GTB’s 11.2: 1 ratio) and the 599XX’s lighter (and 8-decibel louder) exhaust—with catalytic converters, of course. The result is 661 bhp at 8250 rpm and 458 lb.-ft. of torque at 6500 rpm, which make the 599 GTO the most powerful road-going Ferrari ever.
Besides being more powerful, the 599 GTO is 220 lb. lighter than the GTB (which weighed 3865 lb. on our scales). Ferrari says these brakes were absolutely required to cope with the Ferrari 599’s increased performance level.
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