Test drive Ferrari 612 Scaglietti since 2004

Not with lemon, but cucumber

The owner of Ferrari 612 Scaglietti feels
Is Ferrari the issue of car is controversial to the category of cars. On the one hand, he, like any machine, has four wheels and an internal combustion engine. On the other hand, it is at least irrational as a conventional means for movement from point A to a toy worth 290,000 euros. However, the machine described below is best suited for utilitarian purposes. So, get acquainted: the most civilian and comfortable supercar Ferrari 612 Scaglietti.
They say that the world clan of owners and fans of Ferrari is one of the most devoted to the subject of their adoration. We do not know, because the circle of Russian owners of these cars is still very narrow. Until recently, the Italian company did not have an official representative in our country, but the prospect of regular maintenance in Helsinki (it was there that the authorized dealer of Ferrari was there), in my opinion, is not able to cause special enthusiasm even among the fanatic of the brand. With the opening in the Tretyakovsky passage of the salon for the sale of Ferrari and Maserati cars (this event will happen on May 20), Russia will become a fortieth country of the world, in which Ferrari products are officially represented.
What besides the permanent triumph of the factory team Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1 pushes people to buy Maranello cars? Maybe crazy temperament, because from a place to 100 km/h, all Ferrari models accelerate, according to factory data, in less than 5 s? Or maybe a special, turning at high speeds in a squeal, the sound of a motor that immediately reminds of the routes of the royal races? All these assumptions have the right to exist, although the main and unconditional Ferrari trump card is the high status of the queen of the speed. The possession of red (and the vast majority of machines of this brand are painted in this color) Ferrari a business card, demonstrating to the surroundingness and ambition of the owner. There is one more circumstance that adds the attractiveness of Ferrari in the eyes of potential buyers: despite the decent volumes of production (about 4000 cars a year), cheap Ferrari, even used, are not used. The resale price of beautiful Italians holds at such a level that the owner may be sure: he will not meet the corporate stallion on the hood of a cool tuned street -shatter.
For the sake of a sense of superiority over everything that moves on public roads, the owners of Ferrari are ready to forgive their favorites a lot: a hard suspension, rather ascetic, sometimes with frank failures in the finish of materials used in the decoration, interior interior, a meager set of electronic devices and functions responsible for those responsible for Maintaining comfort. Ferrari racing philosophy subordinates the contents of the machine only to one speed cult.
In the back seat of Ferrari
The greater revelation will be a acquaintance with the new model Ferrari 612 Scaglietti (Skalletti), first presented to the world at the Detroit car dealership in January of this year. The machine belongs to the Granturismo category, that is, sports coupes intended for long travels. Unlike a classic supercar, the driving of which, by the degree of physical activity, can be compared with a visit to a fitness club (and the cost of a shell for exercises makes this fitness the most expensive in the world), the Granturismo model is more humane to a person who has damped 290,000 euros for it. The driver of such a car, leaving the steering wheel after overcoming a thousand-kilometer distance, does not feel like a squeezed lemon. On the contrary, he is fresh, like a cucumber, and upon arrival at the next trip, he is able to indulge, depending on the circumstances, examination of attractions, the absorption of delicious food or visiting a nightclub. The six hundred twelfth is the only four-seater car in the model range of Ferrari. Behind the two front seats, not some flawed +2 are hidden, suitable only for the short-term accommodation of two thin children, but two quite human, not inferior to the front in convenience, who can easily take normal physique in their leather arms.
With them, with the rear seats, I began, no matter how blasphemous sounds, the first acquaintance with the new Ferrari. The process of landing and enthusiasm was quite convenient. Sitting up for a rather tall driver, I found that there was enough space for the legs. The fact is that 612 SCAGLITTI has a 2.95 m wheel base for a sport cap is more than impressive, if we keep in mind that the wheel base of the Mercedes-Benz S-Klasse sedan is the most 1.5 cm. General The length of the machine is 4.9 m, also contributes to the comfortable placement of the riders.
The first hundred kilometers of the way of six hundred and twelfth I also did in the back seat and I can testify that you can live there. The roof, smoothly flowing into a panoramic rear window, does not press the supply of space overhead, leather sidewalls with armrests formed for the rear passengers and high backs of front seats create a cozy sensation of a reliable cocoon, without causing claustrophobia. The high backs of the front seats are also useful because they keep the nervous system of the speedometer sitting behind them. It is for the better, since at times the testimonies of this device for impressive ones are able to cause hysteria. And the driver of such a car cannot be distracted.
Do not decontaminate!
It seems that it was this goal not to distract the pilot that the designers of Ferrari, who adapted some kutsy pin, which the language does not turn as a lever, has adapted as a transmission tool. Sitting behind the wheel, I found that the imposing landing with the gear constantly lying on the lever with the right hand is not suitable here. The client is forced to hold both hands on the steering wheel all the time, which, of course, contributes to the concentration of control on management. The programs in the machines presented to us, equipped with an electro -hydraulic control box F1A (there are also versions with traditional mechanical gearbox), switched by swaying two servo drives located on the steering column. The modernized F1 system, which came to road cars from real formulas, was first used by Ferrari in 1994. It was immediately appreciated: to switch the transfer of servo drives only 0.125 seconds. This is even less than a trainer is required to switch the program in a mechanical checkpoint. In front of the driver, the instrument shield equipped with two analog appliances with a tachometer and a speedometer and a color display, on which the buttons located on the steering wheel can display the menu. Having sincerely twisting the volume control rather modest in appearance of the Bose audio system (unfortunately, it is probably not adjusted from the steering wheel, again, so as not to distract the attention of the driver), I’m moving. The reserve of traction of a 12-cylinder engine with a volume of 5.7 liters is always enough and with excess this becomes clear at once. Slightly crouching on the back axis, Ferrari flies like a stone from a sling. I did not expect such agility from almost two -ton (1840 kg), despite the completely aluminum body, cars! Five hundred forty horsepower instill incredible expression in Ferrari. Twing the right handle of the servo drive, I increase the gears, sometimes driving the tachometer arrow close to the red zone, starting with 7500 rpm. Meanwhile, on the speedometer 170 km/h, and in the windshield, the rapidly approaching rear bumper of some kind of Lyanchi. The brake, swaying the left, lowering, lever and mighty slowdown. The overtaken Lyanch frees the left strip, in front of the free section of the Bologna Milan motorway, and the leg again presses on the accelerator, and the hand again shakes the petal, sorting through the gear up. On the speedometer 220 km/h, but it will not work to go faster here (320 km/h can be according to the passport) too many interference moving in the passing direction. At the congress from the high -speed highway, the carabiners, not stopping us to write out a fine for malicious speed excess, but those interested in the car even here, one and a half hundred kilometers from Maranello, 612 Scaglietti, no one really saw. Having satisfied the curiosity of the ministers of the law, we enter the mountain section of the route. And here Ferrari in its element: allows you to go through the bundles of turns on the verge of a foul, under the screech of the tires. Turning it back and again climbing out onto the freeway, I understand that all sorts of praise deserves the smoothness of the Sport-Cope course and this is also the merit of a stretched wheelbase. Having played with the steering gearboxes of the smart box, I press the Auto button and translate the transmission into a fully automatic mode with special pleasure, since it is already happening on the streets of the modes clogged with cars.
By the way, what are two more buttons on the steering wheel for? It turns out that one of them includes a sports mode of automatic transmission (unfortunately, for a lack of time remained unprofitable). But the second disconnects (deactivates, as the description), CST stabilization system, combining the advantages of ordinary ABS and ASR. About the effect produced by the machine after decontamination, I will say: think three times before touching this button. Freed from control of electronics, 540 hp They require very accurate treatment and possession of extreme driving skills. In a word, it is better to deactivate something or someone else (insects in the garden, or something) than CST in Ferrari.
Supercar for every day
So, 612 Scaglietti very successfully combines the features of a purebred supercar from the most eminent manufacturer and a comfortable sports coup. Ferrari is never the only car in the garage, and yet it can be presented as a car for all occasions. Provided that it will be 612 Scaglietti. Only it will allow the owner to taste all the charms of a car with a rise stallion on the hood, but at the same time enjoy the usual level of sled comfort inherent in the representative of the representative class.
Yuri Khnychkin
 

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