Look what followed me home

Tiltsta

Tiltsta

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I bought a thing and today was go pick it up and bring it home day. Took a train to Geneva, then drove back home in the anniversary present the wife and I bought for each other. It is something we always wanted, and something we have been saving to buy for a long time.

It is a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti One to One. All aluminum chassis and body, 540 hp naturally aspirated aluminum V12, 6 speed sequential manual F1-S gearbox, custom grigio ferro metallic paint, a polished aluminum front grill, and a custom iroko leather interior. It has every option available, including the handling package that includes giant 20 inch wheels, carbon ceramic brakes, active suspension, and a Ferrari race exhaust.

Car is a big 2+2 grand tourer, so it isn't a small red 2 seat Ferrari, but I wanted something less flashy. Don’t be impressed, it is almost a decade old and has 14,000 miles on it.

Just a few pics.

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To give you a sense of scale, the car next to it in the 3rd pic is a C class Mercedes, which isn’t really a large car. It is long and low and fast.

The engine sits behind the front axle so the car has a close to 50/50 weight distribution. The stuff in front of the axel include oil coolers, brake coolers, and radiators.
 
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So it's the evolutionary step up from the 550 Maranello? It kinda looks to be, and that was one of my favorite Ferrari's, looks-wise :)
 
Jbird said:
So it's the evolution step up from the 550 Maranello? It kinda looks to be, and that was one of my favorite Ferrari's, looks-wise :)
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The 612 was a replacement for the 456, which was also a handsome machine. The 599 was the replacement for the 550/575 series.
 
Here is an interior shot. Iroko brown was a custom color, and the original owner went with tan contrast stitching and had every inch of the car covered in leather. It isn't quite as dark as this photo makes it look, but it is not a normal tan you see in lots of Ferraris. In person it looks like a million bucks.

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dmn23 said:
The 612 was a replacement for the 456, which was also a handsome machine. The 599 was the replacement for the 550/575 series.
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Exactly the lineage, the 456 and 612 are 2+2 cars, where the 550 and 599 are two seaters.

The 612 is considered by many to be an ugly car, as even though it is Pininfarina design, it is a bit too rounded for some, too big, and not Ferrari enough in appearance (no vents, fins, etc). I think the styling is clean and subtle, and well, sort of timeless, but I get that this isn't everyone's kind of Ferrari and it certainly isn't a high school kid's bedroom poster. The fact that it wasn't a popular car make them a bit uncommon, and also more affordable than the two seaters.
 
Tiltsta said:
Here is an interior shot. Iroko brown was a custom color, and the original owner went with tan contrast stitching and had every inch of the car covered in leather. It isn't quite as dark as this photo makes it look, but it is not a normal tan you see in lots of Ferraris. In person it looks like a million bucks.

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Sadly (for me) my wife would miss all the details you describe then ask where the cupholders are.
 
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DSG tranny?
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It is a sequential manual dual clutch. It is a little different than a DSG in operation. It is sort of like a stick shift, but with paddle shifters, and a computer controls the clutches for you. Some things that are not DSG like as in other cars, it has no park, so you park it in first gear like a manual, or it will roll away like a manual. You can roll it backwards on a steep hill like a manual if you don't give it enough gas for the clutch sensors to know you are trying to go forward. It is more like a manual than an auto, but the controls are similar to other DSG type cars. It has auto rev matching on downshifts, which is a cool feature to have.

It shifts hard with a solid clunk. In sport mode when you are accelerating hard it shifts like a sledgehammer hitting you in the head, and changes gears in around 85 milliseconds. I think at the time that was fast even by Ferrari's standards, but I think modern cars are probably a lot better*. It has an automatic shifting mode that is good for traffic and stuff, but shifting it is a blast, and manual mode is the default operating system.

* google tells me the 488 sport models can do it in 75 ms, and the real high performance models like the 599 GTO can do it in 60 ms.
 
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Total production from 2004-2010 was 3025 units. For the 2009 One to One cars like mine the global production run is supposed to be around 50 cars. There are two grigio ferro/iroko brown cars from that year, and mine is the one with the handling package (according to the local Ferrari dealer who pulled the build sheet for me, so that could be bullshit, but he wasn't selling the car, just doing a PPI).
 
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