The most creative new Ferrari is a coupe-cabriolet, baptized California, a GT which incorporates some design elements from the 612 Scaglietti, which will be presented at the world premiere in the fall, during the Paris Salon. The name of this model trades intentions of the Ferrari, to come mainly overseas. As architecture, is a body open with rigid retractable flag (a first in the history of the brand), with two seats, propulsed of a V8 of 4.3 litres of 460 HP, with transmission in 7 steps. Acceleratia from 0 to 100 km / hour is achieved in less than 4 seconds. The engine is taken from Scuderia F340, but unlike it, California is located front. The market is scheduled for early next year, the price not yet determined.

Three weeks before the start of the 2008 Formula One Championship and Jarno Trulli just announced that he thinks Ferarri is going to win it this year.

He doesn’t give other any chances and says “the championship already looks over to me before it has started”.

The guy tested Toyota and Ferrari cars in Bahrein and is very happy with what the new F2008 is offering being noticeable quicker (half a second quicker). Read more »

For those who think that cost shouldn’t be a factor when it comes to buying a toy for their youngsters, Bergtoys has released the Ferrari FXX Racer pedal car.

For €499 or approx $725, you can buy the basic version of the Ferrari inspired pedal car which comes equipped with a seven-speed transmission, an on-board processor, disc brake pedals, semi-slick pursuit tires.

But that’s not all. Parents who can spare “a little’ more cash or to be exact, €1,499 / $2,175, Bergtoys offers a supped up version of their Ferrari FXX Racer pedal car dubbed “Exclusive”. Read more »

Lamborghini already had an SUV for sale more than 25 years ago and today Porsche’s Cayenne is a global success. Ferrari hesitated for a long time but has now decided to develop the world’s fastest SUV, or so says our Italian contact with insider info.

Our DTP expert than set to work with this information and produced the following renderings.

The project has been coded the “Ferrari FS 599 Fuoristrada” and its supposed world debut target date is the Geneva Auto Show 2010.

While the five-door will feature four-wheel drive its off-road capabilities are not among the top priorities of the Ferrari development team. Read more »

Why is it that people feel the need to saddle perfectly good cars with replica bodywork to make them look like exotics? There’s nothing wrong with the last generation Toyota MR2, true, it’s no Ferrari, but then again, you can buy an entire MR2 for very much less than a Ferrari 360; an amount closer to the downpayment, most likely. We’d keep the bodykit away from the MR2 and spend the extra dough on suspension and engine mods.

If you really must project the image that a Ferrari brings (you know – this car costs more than your house, and I’ll sell it for more, too. Yes, that does make me better than you) you could follow the lead of this MR2 Spyder’s owner. Read more »

The addition of GM’s 5.3L V8 to the HUMMER H3 Alpha for 2008 has resulted in some trickle-down goodness for the SUV’s pickup truck platform-mate, the Chevy Colorado. PickupTruck.com is reporting that the smaller Chevy truck will indeed receive the same infusion of V8 power in 2008. We’ve driven both the Silverado and the GMC Sierra with that engine, and we liked it a lot in the big trucks. Imagining it in the Colorado has grins spreading across our faces, as it will certainly add a good amount of pop, and with the 5.3’s cylinder deactivation system, it should also be respectable at the pump, considering it’ll have a lot less truck to move around than with the GMT900.

The addition of the 295-horse V8 will catapult the Colorado to the top of the heap in the midsize pickup segment in terms of power, edging the new Dodge Dakota (290 hp), and putting it well beyond the Toyota Tacoma and Ford Ranger (numbers 1 & 2 respectively on the sales charts). GM’s been teasing everyone with V8-powered small concept pickups for a while now, and though it won’t officially confirm or deny the report (a spokesman only says, “stay tuned”), it sure looks like the General’s finally decided to give us the real thing. Good.

[Source: PickupTruck.com]

Man, these sure would look good in the TV room. Galleria Ferrari is exhibiting collector Sergio Cassano’s eye-popping collection of Ferrari racing posters all summer. The posters reflect a variety of artistic styles from a number of different artists, and all of them have a common theme: Ferrari is the featured marque in each one.

That’s not surprising, given Scuderia Ferrari’s rich racing history, and to make the exhibit even more special, the posters are joined by a pair of the racers that helped shape the Ferrari racing story over the years: the 500 F2 and 750 Monza. Come to think of it, those’d look really good in the garage. Y’know… to match the posters in the TV room.

The exhibition will run through Spetember 16.

Full details are in the press release after the jump.

[Source: Ferrari]