FF’s nickname means “Ferrari Four” in reference to the fact that the four wheel drive and four seats. Ferrari says its all wheel drive, which he refers to as 4WD, is 50 percent lighter than comparable systems, but no details on how this was achieved. (RM ruote motor skills while 4WD means not only mean “four wheel drive” in Italian.) Italians claim a dry weight of the car of £ 3946, making it less than 100 pounds more than the 612 Scaglietti, for which Ferrari quotes a dry weight of 3880 pounds. (The empty weight of ready-to-last run of the 612 we tested was £ 4123.) Fifty-seven percent of the weight of the FF is perched on the rear axle. Moreover, the British manufacturer Jensen built a four-seat, all wheel drive supercar called FF in the late sixties. The term then in effect for Ferguson Formula, and Harry Ferguson of the research provided to its all wheel drive.
Formatting and transmission may be unusual, but the engine is pure Ferrari: a 6.3-liter, naturally aspirated 65-degree V-12 that produces 651 hp at 8000 rpm and 504 pounds-feet screaming for torque at 6000. Power Concept Car - 2012 Ferrari Sports Car FF GT is channeled through a dual-clutch transmission, and performance, as can be expected to be extraordinary. Ferrari says that 0 to 62mph taking just 3.7 seconds-we suspect that this is a very conservative think speed above and will be a top 208 mph. magnetorheological shocks help handle the FF, and Brembo carbon-ceramic will bring it to heel. Energy efficiency is rated at 15 mpg in the European combined cycle, which is always more optimistic than the cycles of the EPA in the U.S. so the FF is not quite the green Ferrari was expected.
Ferrari history is peppered with shooting-brake conversions. At the Turin auto show in 1968, coachbuilder Vignale unveiled one based on a 330 GT. A few years later, Panther created a shooting brake using the 365 GTB/4 Daytona. Swiss coachbuilder Felber got in on the fun with its 365 GTC/4 “Break,” introduced in Geneva in 1977, and followed that a few years later with a conversion of the Ferrari 400 called Croisette. And, in the mid-’90s, Pininfarina built a few four-door station wagons based on the Ferrari 456 for the Sultan of Brunei. From the looks of it, though, the FF is getting the history of the official Ferrari shooting brake off to a spectacular start.
Concept Car - 2012 Ferrari Sports Car FF GT