Hard as it might imagine, the new sports coupe might actually qualify as a daily driver, as a factory team set out to demonstrate by driving a pair of F599s all the way from the far end of Brazil all the way to New York City, where they wrapped up the Panamerica 20,000 earlier this month.

The sleek shape of the new coupe sweeps from the low, aggressive nose across a bulging hoodline, and back to its broad, rear fenders.

F1 review of the year

With defending champion Fernando Alonso already having established a 25-point championship lead, the 2006 Formula One World Championship looked to be all over in June. source: skysports.comDespite a resurgent Ferrari and Michael Schumacher having won two races earlier in the season, four successive victories for the Renault driver early in the summer suggested that back-to-back titles would be achieved at a canter.But if Alonso and Renault were expecting the second half of the season to turn into a coronation, they reckoned without the sudden improvement found by the Ferrari-Bridgestone combination mid-season.Of course, Schumacher was always likely to extract every ounce from his F248, with five more wins coming the German's way. Perhaps of greater surprise was the maturity displayed by team-mate Felipe Massa, the Brazilian improving by the race and taking wins in Turkey and Brazil.With a ban on Renault's 'mass damper' system and the dubious penalty received by Alonso for blocking Massa in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, it seemed as though, from a near-impregnable position, their season might fall apart.With Ferrari also announcing Schumacher's retirement at Monza, the prospect of an eighth world title gained against the odds appeared irresistible.However it was not to be for the 37-year-old, Schumacher succumbing to a rare Ferrari engine failure whilst leading the Japanese Grand Prix, with Alonso inheriting a victory that suddenly transformed a likely two-point championship deficit into a 10-point lead.A second-place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix then confirmed the 25-year-old as the sport's youngest-ever back-to-back champion, with Renault also capturing consecutive constructors' titles.But the truth is that 2006 was not about Alonso v Schumacher, or even Renault v Ferrari.

Enterprise runs in Hindmarch family

EVERY three or four weeks William Hindmarch makes a call to tell someone that he or she has won a Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale, a Lamborghini Gallardo or maybe a Bond-style Bladerunner boat.

The response is always the same. Nobody believes him. “They think it’s a wind-up. Almost everyone puts the phone down on me. Then they call back on the company phone number to make sure it’s for real.

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Ferrari At The 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show

In its North American auto show premiere, Ferrari unveils the stunning 599 GTB Fiorano at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show. The 599 GTB Fiorano completes a range entirely overhauled in a little over two years. During the development of the 599 GTB Fiorano we dedicated a great deal of attention to the North American market and especially to California where Ferrari has a high concentration of passionate clients, said Amedeo Felisa, General Manager of Ferrari S.p.A. The V12 mid-front engine 599 GTB Fiorano represents the best of Ferrari's current production. It is the highest performance production series Ferrari ever. At the same time it provides unmatched comfort and driving pleasure, continued Mr Felisa.