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Ferrari previously possessed by England Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole is anticipated to increase in surplus of £60,000 when it goes up for auction.

The Ferrari 612 Scaglietti F1A will be at auction at the Top Car sale at BCA Nottingham.
The car had a unique list price of £212,000 and is refined in metallic black with sand leather inside with extra options including 19″ alloys, sat nav, an F1-style paddleshift gearbox, heated memory seats, red brake callipers and ceramic wing shields. It’s motorized by a 540bhp 5.7-litre V12 petrol engine that does 0-60 mph in 4.2 seconds and reaches a top speed 199 mph.

Cole bought the car in 2004 a year after he joined Chelsea. The car comes with a full service history from Ferrari concessionaires Maranello’s at 6000, 10,000 and 20,000 miles and has a justified mileage of 27,500.

For the 13th year in a row the Holden Commodore is the best-selling car Down Under.

Though the 51,093 cars sold were less when compared to the Commodore’s peak sales figure of ten years ago 94,642, it was still ahead of the next contender, the Toyota Corolla.
Sales were promoted by the addition of the Sport wagon estate to the array and discounts offered to the tune of $10,000 towards the end of the year.

Toyota, having its manufacturing facilities in Australia, was the best-selling brand by a wide margin. It sold nearly 239,000 vehicles, whereas Holden sold less than 130,500. Ford sold 104,715.

New car sales went down by just 3.6% on 2007′s results, with 1,012,164 vehicles sold. Fiat, Maserati, Ferrari, Volkswagen, Audi and Citroen all recorded large rises.

In Britain, the best-selling car is the Ford Focus and in the US it’s the F-150 pick-up truck.

Until the year 2010, the Ferrari California will be sold out. To bad.. I just wanted to order one!
Kiddin’ off course.. what a ride. On the show in Paris they showed this amazing ride in some kind of blue color. To bad, because Ferrari needs to be red. Well we found some images of that as well.

So let’s have a nice better look on this car… even if you can’t buy one, just like me.

Here some big images, click on them for a nice big view!

Source: Autoblog

Ferrari held a launch gathering for its California convertible in Los Angeles.

The car was offered to a celebrity gathering at a function at Santa Monica Airport and one was auctioned off for contributions and it raised $520,000.
A similar function was also conducted at Ferrari’s HQ in Maranello, with Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo and F1 drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa displaying the car to Ferrari employees and their families.

The Pininfarina-styled California has a retract hard-top roof and an innovative direct-injection version of the F430′s 4.3 V8 which develops 460bhp.
It has a new seven-speed dual-clutch mechanized manual gearbox and the most recent version of the F1-Trac traction control system, and is good for 0-60mph in less than 4 seconds. More details regarding the car and its pricing are to be announced at the Paris Motor Show.

Ferrari introduced the 430 Scudera that is based on the Coupé, but with a bit more power and lower wieght. The result: a sublime sports car.  Empty this car weights 1250 kilograms and has 510 horsepower, which makes 4.3 liter V8. It goes from 0 to 100 km/h in less then four seconds and can ride well over 300 km/h.

According to Ferrari, there is much Formula 1 technology in this car. The switching time reduced to six hundredths of seconds. Also the 430 has a traction control system and is using light materials like carbon fiber.

Zagato will be presenting the Bentley Continental GT Speed based car on the autoshow in Genève. Zagato, an Italian design company created a whole new face and a remarkable rear end for this car. It has to be a big scoop, but it isn’t anymore. To bad for them, but great news for us to post about it. Here the Bentley Zagato GTZ!

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It isn’t the first time Zagato had a big scoop, in 2006 the released a really exclusive car for a Japanese owner. This Japanese men is owner of several exclusive cars like the 166M, 250 Spider California, two Daytonas and an Enzo. All collectors items, but that wasn’t enough for him. He gave Zagato the job to create a really exclusive Ferrari. It was the Ferrari 575GTZ, based on the 575M Maranello and this design looks a lot on the 250 GTZ from 1956.

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Zagato has also designed the Spyker C12 and several Aston Marin’s.
Not only the Bentley they have created is unique, but they also created the Diatto.That is from a car brand that quited years ago.

Zagato press article about the Bentley Zagato GTZ:

Bentley wears Zagato
Italian Carrozzeria (coachbuilder), Zagato, the most famous Automotive Atelier in the
world is developing a unique, coachbuilt body for a Bentley, one of the world’s most
beautiful and desirable cars.
The Bentley project follows the long-standing tradition of Zagato Atelier co-operation
with premium British automotive brands over several decades. Ace, Bristol, Aston
Martin, Jaguar, MG, Rolls Royce and Rover are among the UK-based brands that
have worked with the Milan Atelier in the past to produce, what are now some of the
most sought after collector’s cars in the world. Other notable cooperations include
Ferrari and Maserati.
The concept of sports elegance, dynamically functional design, remaining free from
contingent tendencies but seeking directly to drive emotion and pure pleasure,
combined with the hand-shaped precious aluminium bodies, have made Zagato
Atelier appreciated as one of the very best and most admired by Customers and
Collectors since the 1920’s.
Zagato’s strength lies in the creation and realisation of this sports-style elegance
within a functional design that does not bow to momentary fashions but seeks out the
sheer excitement and total pleasure of driving, an appreciating value recognised
everywhere.
Today Zagato is the only Atelier capable of marrying its great and long history of
craftsman-led workshop experience with the most modern design and development
technologies currently available. This capability has allowed Zagato to build small
numbers of unique samples, combining the very best of premium manufacturer’s
mechanical running gear with highly exclusive neo-classic Zagato bodies.