Ferrari FF, the new Red Snow

BRUNICO - If you have a wife jerks, do not buy the Ferrari FF. If you decide to give it away anyway, among the options you choose once you have signed the check for 260 thousand euro, do not enter the passenger-side display that informs who is sitting next to you on the speed at which you are traveling, how many laps in which run the risk of not fun enough .... It is one of the many strange things in this car only, away from all her sisters in form and substance. "The task we had been given was not easy - says Matteo Lanzavecchia, and engineer responsible for developing road -. We had to create a car-wheel drive, four-seater, but make it drivable like all 12-cylinder Ferrari. " You said nothing. So here's the idea, completely redistribute the weights, fit, ease here and weigh down there.And end up creating this amazing 'balance over the madness, "to quote Vasco Rossi. Madness of the creative genius of Maranello "A traditional 4x4 system was not applicable - and then there continues Lanzavecchia, we are done alone. Lighter than 50 per cent compared to all existing ones.Are in fact the rear wheels to ensure the pressure but when the conditions of the surface on which you travel (gravel, wet, snow) so require, the torque is transferred to the front axle and managed in a variable percentage on each wheel " .

Ferrari FF, tests on snow                        

That is, pretty much the only FF reads from the road and adjusts the tension to maintain maximum grip. Helping the driver is the legendary rotary knob (it's called so in English, is untranslatable) which, as all major controls, and steering wheel. You can set up five different positions: comfort (and here the word is enough), sports (down with the foot that you are having fun), wet (raining, we increase the adhesion), ice (the ice does not joke, good grip ), and esc-off (delete all the electronic controls, not recommended for those with no name and not Michael was born in Germany). Okay, here we are at the theory, but when you have the potential to handle 660 horsepower and an accelerator that crushed more than can carry up to a maximum speed of 335 km per hour, what happens? We went on some of the most beautiful roads of Europe to understand this: Alto Adige, Brunico Val Pusteria and then in Val Badia and then up, but so that we ended up for a test on snow and ice on top of the Plan De Corones (We filed a cable car and the Ferrari among skiers incredulity with a helicopter).

Curves, hairpin turns, climb: this seems the natural terrain of the FF. It impresses the seal, even at speed. The steering is just turned and responded immediately. The system of controls and focused palette of the seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox in a style formula, let not your hands off the wheel. The time shift is practically zero. You go from first to second and then, without lifting, and there are holes between the acceleration and the other as a change in the traditional manual or sequential. The carbon-ceramic Brembo brakes ensure safety, even when falling from Falzarego the road is steep and very wet.

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Once again surprised by the ease of driving the Ferrari and the pleasure that comes even moving at 50 km per hour as on a small car. It is worth emphasizing that, especially this is a car which is also for those who love to travel with family or with others (even those who are comfortable being around one meter high and 85 cm) and not only those who have a heavy foot. The determination, rather, it should be pulled out of the snow and ice to Plan De Corones, in a circuit prepared for the occasion. It is here that the four-wheel drive to do his duty. And it is great fun with the prince of testers in Maranello, Dario Benuzzi, notwithstanding this, the fireball has grown since he was just a crazy idea, is sitting on our right and while the FF provides all of its grip on completely snow-covered slope in a curve, continues to repeat enhanced with the typical Emilian accent: "But you feel it? But listen to that stuff? "