Ferrari 599 successor to debut at Geneva show

Ferrari has confirmed that the follow-up to the 599 Fiorano will debut at the Geneva motor show next month. The latest in Ferrari's long line of front-engine V12 GT cars, which stretches back to the 166 Inter of 1948, it's rumored to boast in the neighborhood of 700 hp.

That's roughly double the power of the 365 GTB/4 pictured above, which Dan Gurney and Brock Yates famously used to cross the country in 35 hours and 54 minutes back in 1971.

The rear-wheel-drive grand tourer is rumored to be called the F620 GT, and the announcement of its impending debut follows hot on the heels of Ferrari's confirmation of an Enzo successor featuring 920 hp from a warmed-up version of the new GT's engine and a KERS hybrid system.

Coupled with the debut of the refreshed California, which will also see its official unveiling at the Geneva motor show, it leaves the introduced-last-year FF as the untended nag in Enzo's stable. (The 458 received a convertible variant at Frankfurt last September.) With the tear Ferrari has been on lately, we have a feeling that its AWD shooting brake might not remain untouched for long. Might we suggest an FF Superamerica to do battle with Nissan's Murano CrossCabriolet for AWD four-place-convertible supremacy?

By Davey G. Johnson