Filed under: Sports/GTs, Etc., Safety, Supercars, Ferrari
Ferrari 599 goes up in flames
When the engine on Massa's or Raikonnen's Ferrari monoposto overheats and catches fire, that's one thing. When the engine on a customer's personal Ferrari GT car goes up in flames, it's an entirely different story, distinguished primarily by the lack of emergency fire marshals and pit crew to handle it when it happens out on the open road.
Pictures are floating around the internet, much to be presumed embarrassment of Ferrari, of a brand-spankin' new 599 GTB Fiorano following a "spontaneous" fire emanated from under the hood. The car was taking part in the Ferrari 60 Relay event passing through the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Earliest reports indicate that, feeling left out as all those Enzos and 360s were totaled, the 599 lit itself on fire on a bet. Someone ought to have a talk with the other little Ferraris about the dangers of peer pressure.
[Source: Dariomotor and Jalopnik]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
mmajor 5:15PM (4/23/2007)
Dang.
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sk 5:17PM (4/23/2007)
I hope he had the car insured, I so, he'll get a new one after another 18 months wait.
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chuck goolsbee 6:01PM (4/23/2007)
If you value your car, carry an extinguisher. Know how to use it.
--chuck
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JD 6:03PM (4/23/2007)
I say this with the utmost respect of ferrari: Where there's smoke, there's a Ferrari!
Seriously though, that sucks. Those 599's are very sharp looking cars.
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Cal Di 6:28PM (4/23/2007)
Apparently the person driving the 599 made engine modifications for the relay event.
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TONY 6:32PM (4/23/2007)
Another Ferrari went to waste THAT SUCKS!!!
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AX lover 6:35PM (4/23/2007)
Wrong!
Check your sources, this happend in the Netherlands
http://www.autoblog.nl/archive/2007/04/20/ferrari-f599-fikt-uit
And it wasn't the first 599 to catch fire:
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/599/599_20061103_004.shtml
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SenSpeed 6:54PM (4/23/2007)
Insurance? heck no, Ferrari better replace the car for that owner.
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wake1 7:02PM (4/23/2007)
HAHA
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Steve 8:43PM (4/23/2007)
perfect example of italian engineering. F***ing Italians Ain't Trustworthy (FIAT).
If they cannot get a 300,000$ car right, how will they sell any alfas is beyond everyone. That is why americans love their corvette and vipers.
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Shiftright 2:11AM (5/19/2008)
Right, because God knows, no 'merican cars were ever known to catch, fire. Hmm, Pinto, Fiero, Escapes anyone? Stick to the bayou with your ignorant red neck comments.
Oscar 9:02PM (4/23/2007)
I think Ferrari may have a lawsuit on their hands this being the second 599 to go up in flames suggests a manufacturing or engineering defect.
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Bob 9:58PM (4/23/2007)
what would i do if my car get in fire....
http://mininova.wordpress.com
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dionysus 10:11PM (4/23/2007)
Poor engineering, like most other european cars.
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stealth 10:24PM (4/23/2007)
is it me or do a lot of these italian sports cars like to have engine fires. i see this kind of stuff all the time on wreckedexotics.com
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joe 11:31PM (4/23/2007)
It was not a fire.
Most car makers perfer to call them " a thermal event."
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David Fox 11:34PM (4/23/2007)
Yeah...like Corvettes never catch fire...never...
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=corvette+caught+fire&btnG=Search+Images
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G 1:17AM (4/24/2007)
Thats European engineering for you. But as long as the marketing is good, people will still buy into it.
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Roadkill 2:19AM (4/24/2007)
Such constructive comments here..
I'm so glad I read all of this well-thought out spew on how european engineering is so wretchedly afwul compared to your high quality american products ...
why don't I just add a little to it :
europe sucks entirely ! There !
pfah ...
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tink 2:30AM (4/24/2007)
That'll buff right out.
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