Ferrari SF90 Stradale - green dream
Ferrari's new PHEV, SF90 Stradale, will make you feel green - with envy
A slightly shocking plug-in-hybrid release, production by Ferrari probably won't accelerate the pace of PHEV sales much in Australia or anywhere else (with a projected price well over $1 million, they won't sell in high volumes), but the SF90 Stradale. certainly lends sex appeal to the idea of going green.
Of course, it will be tempting for owners to flip the switch to "Qualifying" mode, unleashing the staggering 1000 horsepower of this amazing supercar (that's 736 kW) and allowing them to hit 200 km/h in just 6.7 seconds, faster. than any production car ever built.
Still, Ferrari CTO Michael Leiters believes people will bother plugging in the SF90 (the name refers to the F1 team, Scuderia Ferrari's 90th anniversary) and driving it up to 25km - at speeds up to 130km/h. h, or fast enough to be arrested in Victoria - in complete silence.
Because who wouldn't spend a whopping $1.5 million (prices haven't been confirmed yet, but they could easily be so high, the company will only say "more than $1 million") on a Ferrari fitted with a brand new, screaming engine. V8, the most powerful ever made, and then decided to convert it to eDrive mode?
“I am convinced that our customers will use electric drive, maybe it’s an environmentally friendly thing, but I also think it’s fun to drive an electric car,” Leiters insisted at the car’s presentation in Maranello, confirming that Tesla really got into the heads of Ferrari people. .
Another employee suggested that perhaps the EV mode would be useful for sneaking out of the house without waking up the wife/mistress/envious neighbors.
The company's CEO Louis Camilleri also stressed how important it is for his company to move in this direction. “By entering this segment, I am convinced that we will attract new customers who, I am sure, will quickly become loyal,” he said.
“More than 65 percent of the cars we sell today go to customers who already own a Ferrari and 41 percent of those who own more than one.”
It is clear that Ferrari is not like other companies, which is why in 2000 it flew in with its best and richest clients, including 25 from Australia, to see the presentation of the SF90. Most of these people have already ordered it without even seeing it, so imagine how thrilled they were to find it looked exactly like this.
Interesting Ferrari chief designer Flavio Manzoni has succeeded by creating what he variously calls "futuristic beauty", "spaceship" and "organic form". A stingray crossed with a wasp, maybe Emma Stone? Of course, nothing in nature so well combines aggression with beauty.
Of course, the main reason Ferrari used hybrid technology here is because it allows you to combine an already terrifying and all-new turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 engine with 574 kW and 800 Nm with three electric motors - two on the front axle and the other is between the also new eight-speed gearbox (shift times are reduced by 30 percent, to 200 milliseconds) and the engine, adding another 162kW.
One would expect the fastest Ferrari ever made - its 0-100 km/h time of 2.5 seconds, surpasses both the 812 Superfast and La Ferrari, and matches the Bugatti Veyron - to be a limited edition, exhibition piece. , not a showroom car. , but Stradale is a new and, without a doubt, extremely profitable direction for the company; "used supercar" which means it can produce as much as it wants to sell.
However, it's a tech showcase claiming five "world's firsts" including Audi's stunning, best-of-breed 16-inch digital instrument cluster, which is curved instead of just flat like a boring old iPad and offers a mind-boggling level of visual pleasure. Ferrari seems to capture the power of the 21st century.
The real joy here, of course, will be in the driving, with a staggering 25 control systems making sure to send all that power to the ground with the company's first "performance all-wheel drive system" and a new aero package based on DRS (Drag Reduction System). resistance) of his F1 car, which uses a wing that lowers into the rear of the car rather than up to provide 390 kg of downforce at 250 km/h (still far short of its top speed of 340 km/h).
Another innovation is the car's space frame, which now contains carbon fiber to counter the weight of hybrid technology and provide even greater torsional rigidity. The SF90 still weighs 1570kg, but divide that by 1000 horsepower and you still get a power-to-weight ratio that is, frankly, unsettling.
This new Ferrari PHEV won't be a car for the faint of heart or the thin-walled, but it will go down in motoring history, and with its demeaning McLaren P1 performance, it will become the new supercar supreme leader. - automotive world.
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