A Ferrari 599 hybrid prototype will be shown at next month's Geneva motor show.
The car is being shown to demonstrate Ferrari's committment to hybrid technology, and a Ferrari spokesman has stressed that it will show only one potential form of hybrid technology that Ferrari is evaluating.
He added that it is far from certain that the 599 will be the first Ferrari to be available with hybrid tech.
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Unconfirmed reports in the Italian media suggest the system will use lithium batteries and an electric motor to cut fuel consumption by as much as 35 per cent over the standard 599s.
No other information was revealed by Ferrari.
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Re: Hybrid Ferrari 599 confirmed
cutting down of fuel is really needed now. i have had a chevy duramax for some years and it is by far one of the things uppermost in my mind also.
Re: Hybrid Ferrari 599 confirmed
I don't know what people are so upset about.
A good percentage of Ferrari's customers are celebrity poseurs who don't have any connection to reality or logic in their daily lives. To them, a hybrid Ferrari makes good sense as then they can toddle around to the botiques at 30 km/h without feeling guilty when they're spotted in their Ferrari by their fellow rich poseurs. "Yes, but it's a hybrid! I'm doing my part to save the planet." Nods of approval and instant jealousy.
Makes about as much sense as Al Gore flying to his global warming rallies and film promotions in his private jet and arriving by limo -- and then "paying it off" with some convoluted carbon point payback scheme to plant trees. Somewhere. Sometime. HAHAHHAHAHAHA
Re: Hybrid Ferrari 599 confirmed
A green Ferrari. Whooppy doo! I don't think this has anything to do with economy. Lets be honest here it's still going to be dreadful unless it has a three pot diesel in it. I think this is a ploy to take the rap off supercars. How naive Ferrari seem to be!