Ferrari confirms 4x4 system
11-02-09 | 10:13 PM
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Ferrari confirms 4x4 system
Senior Ferrari sources today confirmed to Autocar that the company is working on an electrically driven 4x4 system for its future models.
The various alternatives for the hybrid system were first revealed on the Autocar website earlier this year but Ferrari says the final hybrid design will be used for front engined GT models and will drive the front wheels.
However, the source says that the first models equipped with the system will not appear before 2014. The aim of the 4x4 system – which will use motors mounted inboard of the front wheels – will be to improve handling rather than improve fuel economy.
Insiders say that using torquey electric motors to power the front wheels will offer significant improvements in acceleration and much improved cornering prowess, because the torque delivery to each front wheel can be carefully controlled.
See the hi-res gallery of the 612 replacement mule testing
Although this new drivetrain won’t be available from launch, it will eventually become an option on the replacement for the 612, which has been caught testing here at high altitude in Europe.
The new 612 should benefit from a lighter and stiffer aluminium chassis as well as a more modern direct-injection V12 engine. There’s also the possibility of a downsized, turbocharged V8 motor.
The new 612 won’t be in the showrooms before early 2012 and will be wrapped in a completely new design language that will mark it out as the company’s flagship Grand Tourer.
A hybrid version – probably powered by a V8 engine – could see its first showing at the 2014 Geneva show.
http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsAr...llCars/244533/
The various alternatives for the hybrid system were first revealed on the Autocar website earlier this year but Ferrari says the final hybrid design will be used for front engined GT models and will drive the front wheels.
However, the source says that the first models equipped with the system will not appear before 2014. The aim of the 4x4 system – which will use motors mounted inboard of the front wheels – will be to improve handling rather than improve fuel economy.
Insiders say that using torquey electric motors to power the front wheels will offer significant improvements in acceleration and much improved cornering prowess, because the torque delivery to each front wheel can be carefully controlled.
See the hi-res gallery of the 612 replacement mule testing
Although this new drivetrain won’t be available from launch, it will eventually become an option on the replacement for the 612, which has been caught testing here at high altitude in Europe.
The new 612 should benefit from a lighter and stiffer aluminium chassis as well as a more modern direct-injection V12 engine. There’s also the possibility of a downsized, turbocharged V8 motor.
The new 612 won’t be in the showrooms before early 2012 and will be wrapped in a completely new design language that will mark it out as the company’s flagship Grand Tourer.
A hybrid version – probably powered by a V8 engine – could see its first showing at the 2014 Geneva show.
http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsAr...llCars/244533/
11-02-09 | 11:37 PM
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AWD systems seems pretty obvious considering the kind of power these vehicles are putting down. We are already well over 600 hp for Ferraris top engines. We all know the car will just keep getting more and more powerful
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