Test Drive Ferrari 612 Scaglietti since 2004 coupe
big Adventure
With Ferrari 612 Scaglietti It will cost from 218,000 euros
Project F 137 with the F133F motor. So this car with predatory, stretched forward nose called in the development process. The motor, by the way, is erected on the architecture of the verified unit from Ferrari 575M Maranello. It follows from this that it is quite good for the next ten years, and it is necessary for the most part just to drive it into environmental norms. With the body and chassis more difficult. Tell me, President Luke Di Montadzembolo personally asked for the chief designer Amedeo Feliz to pay special attention to the reduction of the mass, the deposit of the steering and the capacity of the cabin. Ferrari 612 Scaglietti had to ban the company's return to this tourist vehicles, which were produced by it in the 50s and 1960s. Car for Sibaritov
As a sample, a model 375mm 1954 was chosen, ordered by Director Roberto Rosselini as a gift Actress Ingrid Bergman. It is the characteristic oval language of the sidewall that the machine is beaten in the undercover on the body 612 Scaglietti. On the other, not such a distant example, the portrait of the owner of such cars becomes clear. For the year, the average owner of Ferrari 456 or 456m (these models were produced from 1993 to 2003) runs 11,000 km. Car for Sibaritov! The 456th, which came to replace the novelty, were considered the least sport among Ferrari - and the current car is even more comfortable. There was more space for rear seats passengers. In particular, the angle between the back and the pillow is increased - for as many as 12 degrees. Now the rear little backmens no longer have, figuratively expressing, hugging his head with his knees. Although they are sitting in deep bucket chairs, which allows joking to say that lateral support for the rear seats is better than the front. Reduced and vibration in the seats zone. All this became possible due to an increase in the base from 2600 to 2950 mm, while the length 612 Scaglietti increased significantly compared with the model 456 - from 4763 to 4902 mm. Stretchability of the base reflected on the driving qualities of the car, giving it greater stability on high-speed direct. The differential of increased friction in the leading bridge, the degree of blocking of which is 25%, is 25% when overclocked, and in braking - 45%. To command such a power (3.2 kg of mass per horse under the hood) is not easy, even with the aerodynamically perfect body shape, which almost does not affect the distribution of weight with increasing speed. Pedal to the floor, the tachometer arrow rapidly breaks into the right upper sector, presses you to the seats - and everything, urgent braking, because the freeway seemed that the freeway that seemed such a long segment was passed, and there is already a car's feed ahead.
Having done this exercise for the first time, you just do not have time to understand what a buzz. And to slow down, too, with the following: Going behind the car may simply not calculate your braking path. Giant, diameter 345 mm Ventailed Brembo discs with four-position calipers literally caught tires to asphalt. Along the way, you evaluate the driver's seat, and you understand that at least a little, and the horizons are spread. A little more steel adjustment of the steering wheel and armchairs, raised the ceiling, the left leg feels freely, and even more visible in the mirror than the predecessor. However, I suspect that the Ferrari 456 will be in my property, I would hardly have committed itself. But before the arrival of us was provided with real evidence of superiority. I, for example, know that special loops allow the doors to open 150 mm wide than in the model 456. And God with her, the hub of the steering wheel, bloated under the airbag and unnecessary buttons All this will go to the background after passing the first bunch of turns. A sharp, with good feedback, the steering mechanism allows you to very accurately track the trajectory, and the fair reserve of traction is to tick the nerves with bastard jagons. So excessive comfort, brought with an obvious calculation of the American market, did not spoil the famous character Ferrari. Moreover, the famous the famous Patosic timbre of the engine remained the same.
Cunning machine
Just do not think about Formula 1! Although it is in the rays of racing glory that Ferrari 612 Scaglietti appears before us. Its robotic gearbox is directly called - F1A. She switches to stealing petals so as not to remove the hands from the steering wheel. In the same place, where is the ordinary car, with the handle of Lee, with the automatic machine, there is a lever, here is a tiny T-shaped process, which is given a command to use the device (nodder forward), or turn on the reverse (lift the process and move back). It is believed that high speed (200 milliseconds for switching) allows the average driver to be rebuilt as Schumacher. Pretty busy looked at the training diagram of the distribution of torque and revolutions during the action of a robotic mechanism of the box. The mind came to mind that such information, if it concerned the formula chas, they would have been stored for seven seals. And here - please, even cleared the CD with all the calculations. Fully automated transmission mode allows you to accelerate let it dynamically, but very gently - it is especially felt after I tried to go on the petals. And in addition in sport mode. And to disconnect the CST stabilization system - do not even ask. The rapid approach to turning, the gas reset, the left lever (lowering) twice on itself - and no reaction, the engine pulls the high note, the turnover remains ineffibly high. There are already braking the pedal, not in smoke, but still - a warning icon lights up on the instrument panel to the entire liquid crystal monitor: a stabilizing system operates. From the floor - the characteristic trap alternately squeezing pads and valves in the brake mechanism. Put. In the next turn, I repeat attempt: a dump of gas, two noddes lever reduce gear - worked! The motor takes two octaves below, the tachometer arrow jumps to the limiter, and Ferrari fits in turn with the barely illuminated reluctance, but clearly on the planned path of the trajectory. Do I need to say that without rolls? And is it enough delight caused by riding to forget the Italian transmission strike?
On the pit stop (as it is appropriate, this word is!) I get to Maurizio Manfredini, on the business card of which is the head of the group of twelve-cylinder cars: so and so, there was a fact that the advertised switching system was reflected. Calls subordinate. I witness a nervous disassembly. When the exchange of eloquent Italian gestures is completed, I explain to me that the box did not want to go down, because the engine turnover was sufficient to pass the turn. The question is who in the car leads, me or box? By the way, for the optimal weight distribution over the axes (46% of the 1840 kg of the exhaust mass occur on the back and 54% on the front), the gearbox is set in the main transmission block according to the TransAxle scheme.
It happened so that with this box our crew fell into an awkward position in its fault. It was like this: I got up at the crossroads. The driver did not include neutral, this is not required. When you stop the box turns on it automatically. The car froze, and the driver removed the foot from the brake. It's time to move to move, and the car does not react to the nick with the right petal. And on the journey of the process - too. Stand. We collect compliments from truckers drivers. And everything was solved simply: it was necessary to click on the brake pedal before switching. There is another moment - a person who is accustomed to the traditional location of the controls, at first it will be that and the case is not to pull the lever. However, according to the company, approximately 90% of buyers do not want to see the clutch pedal in the novelty
Each of these robotic and computerized Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, however, bears the unique handprint of the craft product. In the irritation of gaps and fuzzy glare there is something medieval, something from the slope of the 88-meter falling girlardine tower on Piazza Grande in Modena. Of course, a car whose tank for one sit can be fed to 150 euros, designed to devour space. With two suitcases in the trunk (240 l) and a golden credit card in a purse. This is the famous, Ferrari same grafted ideology Gran Turismo - big travel. To begin to embody her together with Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, the smallest 218,000 euros will be required.
Denis Orlov
Brief Specifications Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
Engine volume, cube. See: 5748.
Number of valves on the cylinder: 4
Power, l. with. For rpm: 540/7250
Max. Torque, nm / at about about. Min.: 588/5250.
Acceleration up to 100 km / h, p .: 4.2
Maximum speed, km / h: 320
Middle fuel consumption l. / 100 km.: 20.7
Volume of fuel tank, l .: 108
Dimensions, mm: 4902x1957x1344
A source: Newspaper "Car Izvestia" [№9 (55), 2004]
