Why is this Ferrari 599 GTB sold for € 650,000 has?

Posted on 15-03-2015 12:59 by MauritsH – 49 Comments”

An ugly car by any means, but is six and a half tons is not a bit too much for ‘just’ a 599 GTB new probably around the 3 euroton has cost?

Yes, that’s indeed ridiculous. What this particular Ferrari so special, however, is that it does not have up / down shifters and other modern crap. Instead, the rich man in question is old-fashioned stirring to the mighty V12 in the right rev range to keep, because there is a real manual gearbox in!

Unfortunately, it is difficult to find how many copies of the 599 GTB the factory in Maranello left with a conventional gearbox, but the are few. For example, we know that there are only 20 of this manual Italians to the USA are shipped. No wonder, because Americans are pretty schakellui, but it gives an indication.

Is the manual gearbox to a revival?

May we walk a little ahead of the facts, because the aforementioned Ferrari will especially because of its rarity an interesting investment opportunity. On the other hand, got Porsche with the manual Cayman GT4 (which at a breakneck pace is sold) the hands properly on each other.

Manual transmissions are no longer to be found on the optielijsten of beasts if the 991 GT3 RS and are thus becoming increasingly scarce in the supercarsegment. On the one hand not surprising, because thanks to new techniques, the switching times are becoming shorter and shorter.

On the other hand, it might just be that the lack of experience and control the supercarfabrikanten however, led to the offer of a shift knob, it’s on the list of options. Schakelbakken in fast cars to the background disappeared due to declining demand, but perhaps cars like the Cayman GT4 car enthusiasts with serious money yet on other ideas.