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Friday, August 7, 2009

Ferrari FXX

The FXX is the most advanced GT ever created at Maranello and its mission is
to involve Ferrari's most valued Clients as genuine Prancing Horse Test
Drivers in their own right. The wealth of data and experience gathered in
the course of this very special programme will be exceptionally important.

In fact, the feedback from these highly skilled, non-professional Client
Test Drivers will be compared and supplemented with suggestions from Michael
Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello and Ferrari's professional in-house Test
Drivers.

Every Client who signs up for the FXX project by purchasing one of the
estimated 20 or so cars being built, will actually be joining Team Ferrari,
and will have his driving experiences at the wheel of this new car monitored
directly by the Prancing Horse's technicians and specialists.

The FXX has not been homologated for road use and thus will not be a
competition model. It will be used exclusively on the track as part of a
specific ongoing research and development programme featuring this first
ever group of Client Test Drivers.

The FXX is powered by an imposing 6,262 cc V12 engine that can punch out
over 800 bhp at 8,500 rpm. Its gearbox is the result of the transfer of F1
strategies, delivering gear change times of under 100 ms. This is almost as
fast as the F1 single-seaters, themselves the absolute pinnacle of current
technological achievement.

After a careful client order selection process, the first FXXs will be
delivered by the end of this year. The initial testing of the definitive car
is currently taking place at Fiorano. The FXX and the relative package cost
a total of 1,500,000 euro (excluding taxes) (approx. $1,790,000) and
applications to join the programme are being evaluated by a special in-house
committee.

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