Ferrari FF test drive since 2011 compartment

Dream for every day

Ferrari FF The first station wagon in the history of the brand. We met him in Moscow in the midst of winter. Madness? On the contrary, the natural mode of operation of the novelty from Maranello.

Start New Year with an article about Ferrari What could be better? Even if I drove only three circles on it. If Monica Bellucci kissed you, would you complain that everything was limited to one kiss? That's the same! In addition, Ferrari Four or simply FF very unusual Ferrari.

What is Ferrari? This is a dream inaccessible symbol of a beautiful life. This is the speed of numerous titles in Formula 1, victory in Le-Man and Daiton. This beauty is beautiful bodies from Pininfarina, Bertone and Carozzeria Touring have long been recognized as the top of automobile design. Everyone on this planet wants to be driving Ferrari. Almost everyone is good: some are still nicer than Porsche or Lamborghini.

But now imagine that you were driving Ferrari. And not some California there, but FF. V12, 660 l. p., 3.7 s to 100 km/h, the maximum speed of 335 km/h probably something similar is experienced by a pilgrim, reaching the revered shrine. However, I am a pilgrim, and Ferrari a shrine.

I am Ferrarista to the bone brain. I learned the words of Ferrari immediately after mom and dad, began to root for Scuderia Ferrari at five. Like any child of the 90s, I collected the turbo chewing liners, glued posters with the image of my favorite cars on the wall and opened the world through Need for Speed. Therefore, Ferrari is truly divine creature for me. I am jealous of the traditions and history of the brand. I am sure that for most brand fans like me, FF will seem like an icon of apostates. You just think about it: all -wheel drive and a universal body! What is not heresy?!

That is why my words will seem provocative to you, but I consider FF the most classic Ferrari of all now issued. Firstly, she has a motor in the middle. Do not look at the fact that access to it is opened by the hood located in front, because the engine is still located between the axes. Secondly, the FF body type is not some kind of proletarian station wagon, but the most Shooting Brake. In the era of Tsuckerbergs and Jobs, real aristocratic joys like hunting for fox gradually go into the past. Thirdly, under the hood he beats the hooves of his stallions V12. And all -wheel drive? It turns off at speeds above 200 km/h, so if you want to control the rear -wheel drive Ferrari, just accelerate quickly.

PERFECTION
FF is one of the best Ferrari in history, if only because she, like no one else, came close to perfection. If you believe Enzo Ferrari, then the engine is the only thing you pay for when buying a car from Maranello, everything else is a free application. Therefore, we will begin the journey to the world of technical perfection with the V12.

6262 cm3, 12 cylinders with a collapse angle of 65 degrees, compression degree 12.3: 1. As in a real racing car, the piston of the piston of V12 is very short only 75.2 mm. Diameter 94 millimeters. Power of 660 liters. With. It is not amazing, because the same Italia has the liter power higher, but the moment is impressive: 683 Nm, and 500 are already available at idle speed! Who else knows how? Naturally, in Maranello, as around the world, they take care of nature. FF even installed a start/stop system, which allowed to reduce the consumption to 15.4 liters per hundred, and CO2 emissions to 360 grams per kilometer of run. On 612 Scaglietti there were 5.3 liters and 25% carbon dioxide at a smaller one of 120 liters. With. and 95 nm recoil. This, I understand, progress!

But no less, and perhaps the transmission is of greater interest, because no one has this. The Italians detained the moment for the front wheels of a separate gearbox! The mechanism called PTU (Power Transfer Unit) turned out to be quite light and compact: 35 kg and 170 mm in length. He has two programs that approximately correspond to the second and fourth gears of the F1-DC robot. The role of differentials is played by clutches, the degree of slipping and regulates the supply of the moment to the front wheels. It is interesting that, due to the front-medium-engineer layout, FF, PTU had to be placed at the front end of the engine so that it was as close as possible to the axis. How does it all work? When the first or second gear is included in the F1-DC, PTU includes the first when the main box involves the third and fourth, PTU shoes the second, and then the front-wheel drive simply turns off! This happens, as already mentioned, at speed above 200 km/h. According to the Italians, at such speeds all -wheel drive is no longer needed.

As for the main box, the F1-DC for the best weightlifting is assigned back according to the TRANSAXLE scheme. This robot has two clutches, seven transmissions and the highest switching speed in the world 0.7 milliseconds. In this case, the change of steps occurs smoothly and without jerks. From the experience of driving on other Ferrari, I can say that in comfortable mode, the work of the box is not much different from the classic machine gun softly, smoothly, imperceptibly.

And there is also electronics, which on FF is a real assistant. At one time, Porsche and Ferrari showed the diametrically opposite approach to electronics. Carrera GT, the greatest Porsche of the zero, had no assistants and was, though a quick, but deadly weapon, Enzo the top of the development of Ferrari, on the contrary, did everything to help not even the most quick pilot. Then many journalists said that the German car quintessence of a modern sports car, and Italians indulge their pampered customers from the countries of the Gulf, USA and East Asia. History showed that sports industry went along the Italian path. Indeed, Formula 1 car was stuffed with electronics already in the early 90s, but it never occurred to anyone to name simple, Senna and Schumacher pampered lazy people!

FF can be different. Electronics, the modes of which the Manettino switch is in charge, turns a fatal weapon machine into an ESC-off into a safe and rather restrained car, a nice fiatic, as Anton Borisenko says. It is extremely interesting to the Italians' approach to setting up Traction Control. Conventional anti-tuxe systems are in the root of any slide of the wheels, but the F1-TRAC system regulates the degree of slipping depending on the type of coating. The thing is that on ice acceleration is more efficient with a much greater slip than on hard coating! The uniqueness of the FF is also that the slip is regulated not by the fuel supply and brake mechanisms, but by frictions (on the front wheels) and the rear differential (on the rear). This allows you not to overheat the brakes and not to strangle the motor, which leads to its loss from optimal revolutions.

Closer to the stars
In general, you realized that the FF impressed me, like no car before it, and this is already my third communication with Ferrari this year before FF I was driving California and Italia. But the point is not in outstanding characteristics, not in high technologies, not in speed or controllability to understand a lot for three circles according to a short, almost devoid of straight ring on the Tushino field. The point is practical!

In recent years, Maranello seemed to realize that the eternal rivals from Porsche had got too close, and decided to show everything they were capable of. The HGTE package for Fiorano, which made the ingenious 599 GTO from the magnificent supercar, which has become a new standard of antennaported supercar, and Italia with its fastest robot and atmospheric V8 with the highest power removed from a liter of volume. FF is a control shot, a decisive answer to models such as Panamera and Rapide. Of course, the big Ferrari is much more sports than a German and an Englishman, and her versatility is lower, but personally, Ilitans' approach is closer to me. In the rear places, Porsche and Aston Martin still do not travel closely with the driver, which means that the rear places are still intended for children or friends, which in FF places with excess. As you can see in the photo, with my 186 cm of height I fit myself almost without problems. Trans -European mileage, of course, can not stand in the rear places, but it is not a problem to get to the club. And what a trunk is there: even the seats are folding! So rushing from Saint-Tropez into a curses with his skis is not a problem. It was then that all-wheel drive and air suspension, which on FF, unlike Italia, raise both axes, and not just the front.

By the way, you did not have a question what the hell are we writing about Ferrari in January? Do not believe it, but FF presentation for Russian journalists took place in mid -December! Mercury wanted to remove the question once and for all whether this car was able to calmly and confidently drive along the snow and ice, but, alas, there was no snow in December Moscow. Personally, without personal experience of slippery roads, I am confident in the abilities of FF, because for the first time in the history of the test brand of the new model were carried out not only on the corporate track of Fiorano, the serpentines of Italy and the death valley in Nevada, but also in the north of Sweden. The Italians are sure that FF not only knows how to ride in winter perfectly, but also gives great pleasure to its owner another argument in favor of year -round FF use! And she also has a 7-year warranty that acts even after the owner’s change, and free then throughout the entire period.

Stop-Stop, what is the hell? And where is the dress of the incomparable sound of the motor, stories about how it sucks under a spoon, how to breathe breath, how children's dreams come true?! You think reasonably. And emotions, and delight, and admiration for their usual places. But this was the case before, but the understanding that Ferrari is not an expensive toy, and a full -fledged car appeared for the first time. Arriving home, I looked at how much the 67-year-old Ferrari cost, and was amazed: no more than 2,500,000 for cars with minimal runs with a transparent history. Big, but not sky -high money. Now imagine that in 56 years you can buy a relatively inexpensive Ferrari for warranty and with free maintenance. Ferrari, which can be used every day for family needs. Dream? Reality! So remember: Ferrari is not a dream from a picture, but a car that you can afford. If you really want to, of course. Well, those who want to purchase a new car will have to give at least 380,000 euros or 15,728,200 rubles for it. And, I assure you, here every penny is on the case.

Hunting, buns and shopping
FF is far from the first Ferrari station wagon, but all previous cars were created by body ateliers on an individual order. There were six such cars, four of them you see in the photo: 250 GT SWB 1962, nicknamed Briedvan (bread van) created by Giotto Biztsarini; 330 GT 1965 with the Vignale body; 365 GTB/4 Shooting Brake 1968 with a body from Panther Westwinds based on Daytona and 456 GT Venice, created for Sultan Brunei in the walls of Pininfarina. The last and the only five -door Ferrari.



In addition to them, there were two cars from the Felber atelier: 365 GTC/4 Break 1978 and named after the main embankment of the 1979 Cannes Croysette on the basis of a compartment 400. All cars, except for the very first, were created for exotic needs of the powers of this world. So, several 456 GT Venice were used by the many wives of the Sultan for shopping tours in Harrods and Gallery Lafayette. But the bread van is a racing car. He was built by order of Count Volpi after Enzo Ferrari refused him the sale of the latest 250 GTO. The count decided to show the old man that he could build a car no worse. After completing a short but bright racing career, this car was redone for everyday use and became a favorite road car of the aristocrat.
 



 

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