Ferrari’s New F138 2013 Formula 1 Car is Evolutionary Rather Than Revolutionary

On Friday, February 1, Ferrari unveiled the new single-seater with which Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa will fight for the 2013 Formula 1 World Championship.

The new car is named the F138, with the first two digits standing for the year (2013) and the “8” for the number of cylinders as well as the eighth season the team is using that configuration.

With F1 switching to V6 turbocharged engines, the project 664 (as it is code-named) is a development of last year’s F2012 rather than a clean-sheet design. Of course, practically every one of its nearly six thousand components has been revised for maximum efficiency but the basics, such as the suspension layout and the engine, follow the same philosophy.

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Way to Go: Watch Chris Harris Drive a Ferrari 458 Spider Flat-Out on the Track

He might have claimed that Ferrari “doctors” the cars tested by the media but that didn’t stop Chris Harris from a) replacing his Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 with a used 599 GTB and b) driving any car with a prancing horse on the bonnet that he could get his hands on.

The problem is that, with all the bad blood between the two parties, Harris got to drive the 458 Spider too late, after it had been reviewed by almost everyone, a fact he acknowledges right from the start.

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Lexus LFA Loses to Ferrari 458 Italia in C&D's 2013 Lightning Lap Test

It's a fact that Nürburgring lap times have become something of a standard when it comes to comparing sports cars’ performance. Car & Driver magazine decided that it was impractical to conduct its annual Lightning Lap event in Germany as they had 20 cars to test, so its editors chose the Virginia International Raceway (VIR) as the U.S. equivalent of the ‘Ring.

While the 4.1-mile long track is one-third of the Nordschleife, it features more than 30 turns and elevation changes and, according to C&D, it makes for a demanding venue in which to test each car to its limits.

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What's it Like Using a Ferrari FF as a Daily Driver for Two Weeks Covering 2,000 miles?

Since time immemorial, word was that the only true sports car you could drive day-in, day-out, was the Porsche 911. Then the Audi R8 came along and joined its posher VW Group stable-mate, while Nissan introduced the GT-R, but that’s about it.

What about the Italians? Well, they’re a hoot to drive flat out on an autobahn, marvelous to look at, spine-tingling when you floor the throttle at the exit of a bend and apply opposite lock, for sure.

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Ferrari Driver Having a Hard Time to Park

We'll admit that, low-slung supercars with slots instead of normal rear windows and gearboxes that sometimes have a mind of their own aren't the easiest vehicles to parallel park.

Nevertheless, we think that this Ferrari driver had more than enough space to complete the parking maneuver if not with a single move, a couple at the most.

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Pagani Huayra and Ferrari F12berlinetta Race Each Other on the Track

Two if Italy's finest and newest supercars, the Pagani Huayra and the Ferrari F12berlinetta, came together at the Autodromo di Modena racetrack for a day of testing and high-speed chases, courtesy of Germany's SportAuto magazine.

The Huayra makes do with a mid-mounted 6.0-litre bi-turbocharged V12 engine sourced from Mercedes-Benz's AMG division, rated at 720hp (730PS) and 1,000Nm (737 lb-ft) for 0-100km/h (62mph) acceleration time of 3.3 seconds and a top speed of 360km/h (224mph).

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SeriousHP Does its Thing on the Ferrari 360 Modena with a Turbo Package

As the name suggests, Houston-based SeriousHP is a tuning firm with a knack for improving engine performance, and this is exactly the case with one of its latest offerings, a new Turbo Kit for the Ferrari 360 Modena.

Produced from 1999 through 2005, the stock version of Maranello's mid-engined supercar comes equipped with a naturally-aspirated 3.6-liter V8 pushing out 400hp (405PS).

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Paparazzo Killed in LA While Trying to Get Shots of Justin Bieber’s Ferrari

Celebrity hunting is what paparazzi do for a living. Sadly, it can also result in them perishing according to a report from TMZ, which was later confirmed by CBS Los Angeles.

The report said that a photographer was killed in Los Angeles while he was trying to snap pictures of Justin Bieber’s white Ferrari 458 Italia.

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Ferrari California Replacement to get Turbocharged V6 and/or V8 Engines?

In November 2011, we scooped a Ferrari California prototype with larger wheels and two triangular air intakes on its hood doing the rounds at the company’s test track in Italy.

At the time, we figured it could be a hotter version that would be introduced with the model’s 2012 update. While the California was indeed updated in key areas, there was no hotter variant in sight at its Geneva Motor Show debut.

Then, last summer, another “baby Ferrari” mule was caught, this time on film. The inlets were absent but the hood was visibly positioned higher and, more importantly, the distinctive hissing of turbochargers betrayed that there was something unusual hiding underneath.

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CDC Performance Bolts on a Supercharger to the Ferrari California [w/Video]

For its second project after the Maserati Quattroporte that was released earlier this summer, German sports car tuner CDC Performance has worked over the most affordable Ferrari model, the California hardtop roadster.

Beginning with the engine, CDC Performance introduces a supercharger system complete with intercooling, and a custom made exhaust system fitted with a valve to control the V8's noise levels, bumping output from 483hp (490PS) to 594hp (602PS), and torque from 505Nm (372 lb-ft) to 600Nm (443 lb-ft).

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What an Angry Bieber: The Bieb Stops Ferrari 458 in the Middle of LA Road to Confront Paparazzi

It's not only young, and in some rarer cases, much, much older girls (see Jenny McCarthy) that have a sensation with Justin Bieber, as the same can be said for certain grown men, albeit for altogether different reasons.

While driving his white-tastic Ferrari 458 Italia on a Los Angeles freeway, Bieber observed a paparazzi trying to catch up to him.

Further down the road, the photographer approached the Canadian-born singer and told him, "You're driving pretty crazy bro, I think you should slow down a little, don't you think?", which ultimately pissed off Bieber, who then stopped his car in the traffic to confront the chitty-chatty stalker holding the camera.

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See Anything Wrong with this Picture? Come on, Look Closer…

We're going to assume that you won't have a problem taking your sweet time to find out what's wrong with the snapshot from Extreme Racing's video of Playboy Model Jesse Preston riding a Ferrari 458 Italia during a recent drift event in Las Vegas.

But to answer the question we posed, it's all about the positioning of the seatbelt and the use of a safety helmet, as pointed out by several YouTube commentators including one who goes by the alias "TheWereBot", who wrote:

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Scoop: Ferrari 458 "Monte Carlo" and F70 Allegedly Filmed on the Fiorano Track

There's an unconfirmed rumor going around the net that Ferrari is working on a track successor to the 360 Challenge Stradale and the 430 Scuderia models based on the current 458 Italia named the "Monte Carlo".

It is a prototype of this model that the folks over at the Dutch forums Autogespot claim to have filmed racing around the Italian brand's Fiorano test track together with a prototype for the F70, which is what the media has been calling the Enzo's V12 hybrid replacement, due to be revealed next year, possibly as early as the Detroit motor show.

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Backing Up Into a Ferrari California Should Help Fix Your Insurance Rates

When does a simple fender bender turn into an incident worthy of writing a post about? Well, duh, when it concerns a hot Italian supercar, of course.

While filming a dark colored Ferrari California driving with its top down on the busy streets of Cannes in the French Riviera, YouTube user Superlennyo was able to capture a white, older generation Renault Clio hatchback backing up, but not slowing down, until it scrapped the bumper of the Italian hardtop convertible.

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Watch a Ferrari F430 Play Around with a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 on a Closed Road

If there's one thing we never get tired of, it is watching exotic supercars in action, no matter how old they are.

The 458 Italia has long replaced the Ferrari F430, which was built from 2004 through 2009, but Maranello's previous offering in the segment remains an extremely fast car even by today's best standards.

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Ferrari Orgasm: Lady Goes Nuts After Seeing an F430 Spider

We all get excited once in a while, perhaps some more than others, but what you're about to see and…hear for yourself in this mobile phone footage is something beyond verbal explanation.

Nevertheless, we will try to give a basic outline. From what we can tell, a woman driving with her friend in a Renault Twingo, quite possibly in Spain judging by their accents (if we are wrong, tell us in the comments), spot a red Ferrari F430 Spider coming from behind.

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Ferrari Navigator Pissed Off at FXX Driver and he Shows it

Sitting behind the wheel of a special Ferrari doesn't necessarily mean that you are actually going to be treated like royalty.

Case in point, Ferrari's exclusive FXX program that kicked off in 2005. For a paltry $1.8 million, 29 handpicked special clients could enter the program, which included a track-only racer based on the Enzo that's powered by a 6.2-litre V12 producing 848Hp (860PS) at 9,500rpm in Evoluzione trim.

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BMW 3-Series E30 Leaves Ferrari 458 Italia Driver Wondering What the Hell Just Happened

What started out as cool two wins over a presumably stock Nissan GT-R and a Speedart BTR 600 Porsche 911 Turbo (997) in a straight-line race from a rolling start for the Ferrari 458 Italia driver (see the videos here), quickly turned sour once he faced a couple of older, but evidently, heavily modified BMWs.

After being defeated by a late 1980s – early 1990s BMW M5 fitted with a turbocharged engine producing more than a 1,000 horsepower, the owner of the Italian supercar tried his luck against another tuned bimmer, this time, a supposedly tamer, late 1980s 3-Series Coupe E30.

Oh, how wrong he was…

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Ferrari 458 Italia Spanks Nissan GT-R in Straight-Line, but Proves No Match for +1,000Hp BMW M5 E34

It's not every day that you see the all-conquering Nissan GT-R lose a speed race, even if said model happens to come from Maranello.

The Swedes at the M5Board forums recorded the race between the Godzilla and the Ferrari 458 Italia from a rolling start.

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Evo’s Dickie Meaden Drives 1998 Ex-Schumacher / Irvine Ferrari F300 Formula 1 Racer

You think that Formula 1 drivers have it easy, don’t you? Granted, they are much more talented behind the wheel than you and me, but they are at the top motorsport racing level, traveling around the world, gaining fortune and fame and then retiring at a comparatively young age to enjoy the rest of their life.

Evo’s Dickie Meaden thought along the same lines; that is, until he got the opportunity to drive a 1998 Ferrari F300 Formula 1 car that was used as a spare for then Scuderia drivers, Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine.

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