Ferrari News

Episode 223 - Is now the time to buy an electric car?

Daniel Ricciardo carries the hopes of a nation with him as the Formula 1 season begins this weekend in Bahrain – we all want to see him drinking champagne from his race boots on the podium again.

Over 100 supercars, classic cars and motorcycles will be out on display this weekend as part of the Vaucluse Car Club's Autumn Gathering to help raise money for the Sydney's Children's Hospital Foundation.Set to be held at The Gap Bluff at Watsons Bay on

Let’s face it, when the sports-car bubble bursts, it bursts hard – real hard. You only need to look back to 2019 to get the latest example of that fact, with Australian sales down a massive 20.8 per cent

Toyota has once again topped the table for most valuable car marque, according to US consultancy firm Interbrand's top 100 best global brands of 2019 list.Placing seventh overall, Toyota's value surged five per cent from last year to hit $US56.2 billion,

The slightly shocking release of a plug-in hybrid, production Ferrari probably won't greatly accelerate the rate at which PHEVs are taken up in Australia, or anywhere else (at a predicted price well above $1 million they won't sell in large volumes) but t

Yes, Australia's new-car market has mostly been a tale of doom and gloom in 2019, but there are some brands that defied the shrinking market to post record sales results in March.

Yes, at a glance it seems Australia's new-car market is a sea of red ink and plummeting sales, with numbers seemingly down across the board.

When does a road car with 530kW and 700Nm need more power? When it is a Ferrari, of course.Yes, putting aside logic and quite sensible fears about how much the human body can take, the famously speed-mad Italians have announced they will unveil an even more ridiculous version of the 488 Pista, with a hybrid drivetrain, later this year.The Pista - the already uprated version of the 488 GTB - can hit 200km/h from a standing start in 7.6 seconds, and has a top speed in excess of 340km/h, but the new, truly electrifying version, confirmed by Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri this week, will shatter even those titanic figures.The as-yet-unnamed hypercar will sit at the very pinnacle of Ferrari’s sports-car range and will feature a 3.9-litre V8 and at least one electric motor, but possibly as many as four (one for each wheel, perhaps, although all-wheel drive is not something their sports cars usually offer).The car, to be unveiled at a special event later this year rather than the Geneva Motor Show, will begin deliveries to customers (who have clearly gone bonkers) in early 2020, and it will be part of the company’s “regular lifecycle”, according to Camilleri, meaning it is no one-off, or special-edition model.It will be the company’s second go at using hybridisation, a technique it has been perfecting at its Formula One team through the use of KERS, after the V12 La Ferrari, released back in 2013.While hybrid tech might still be a novelty at Ferrari, it is very much the future, Camilleri explained, confirming in an earnings call with industry analysts that a whopping 60 per cent of its product portfolio will offer hybrid variants by 2022.In even more shocking news, the world’s most operatic and shouty car company will also offer a full-electric, and thus silent, Ferrari some time after 2022, Camilleri confirmed.You can bet there’ll be a hybrid version of the upcoming Puronsangue SUV, which was announced last September. Camilleri said the reaction to Ferrari building an SUV has been very positive."It is a segment that's clearly growing," he said. "A lot of our customers would love to have a Purosangue to use on a daily basis."

Ferrari has revealed its hardcore 488 Pista Spider drop-top at this year’s Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach.