Ferrari GG50

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Auto Car | Ferrari GG50 |  What better way to commemorate 50 years designing automobiles than to design your own Ferrari and build it. That’s what Giorgetto Giugiaro did and he came up with the GG50. The GG50, as we reported earlier when it originally debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show, is based on Ferrari’s 612 Scaglietti and features the same mechanicals wrapped in a new, skin-tight red suit penned by Italdesign-Giugiaro S.P.A design studio.

The little red Ferrari was sitting all by its lonesome out in the lobby of Cobo Hall, so we took some pity pics of it and picked up a press kit. The car is striking in person, though not in a way that’s different from any other time you approach a Ferrari in the flesh.

The idea of creating a Ferrari to mark 50 years of activity in the world of car design took shape in September 2004 at the Paris Motorshow, where Giorgetto Giugiaro talked about this flight of fantasy directly with the President and CEO of Ferrari Luca di Montezemolo who cued the model around which the vehicle concept should be developed: the 612 Scaglietti 12 cylinders four-seater coupé.
 
Montezemolo also gave Giugiaro two inputs: although no restrictions would be posed on creative-thinking, the vehicle must be perfectly in keeping with the Ferrari tradition and transmit a sensation of compactness, even being highly enjoyable.

Giugiaro started to work on the project in February 2005, sketching entirely by hand – a practice followed over the last 50 years – the physical design of the vehicle in 1:10 scale from four orthogonal views, marking out the side, nose, tail and bird’s view: all sketched in 2H lead pencil on tracing paper using a universal chalkboard.

This  two-dimensional rendering is typical of Giugiaro’s method and is today pursued by  Fabrizio Giugiaro, Italdesign Giugiaro Styling Area Director.
According to this procedure, the rendering is translated into math surfaces in order to proceed to a 3D validation of the project by means of 1:1 scale dynamic visualization in the Italdesign-Giugiaro Virtual Reality Design Center.

Once the VR green light was given, seeing onset was full-scale plaster model milling, as duly completed in April. Along with the 1.1 scale mock-up put in place to test out the ergonomics and ease-of-access interior concepts, starting to see construction at the beginning of June was the running prototype.

Retaining the wheelbase at 2.95 meters, the Ferrari GG50 spans 4 meters and 81 centimeters in length vs.4.90 for the Scaglietti.

Giorgetto Giugiaro reinterpreted the front just a little, pruning the front overhang by 2 centimeters. On the other hand, he revolutionized the rear section, nipping the overall length of the car by 9 centimeters.

In the Scaglietti, the fuel tank is positioned vertically, behind the rear seating.
For the Ferrari GG50, Italdesign engineers were asked by Giugiaro to concentrate on positioning the new 95-liter fuel tank entirely below the trunk platform line.

With the rear seatbacks folded down, the redesigned fuel tank layout translates into a flat trunk platform one meter and 40 centimeters deep. Compared to the 240-liter loading capacity of the Scaglietti, the loading capacity offered by the GG50 stretches to 270 liters, which, with the rear seatbacks folded down, increases to 500 liters.

Ferrari GG 50 Technical Bulletin

Length: 4,810 mm
Width: 1,950 mm
Height: 1,347 mm
Wheelbase: 2,950 mm
Front track: 1,677 mm
Rear track: 1,643 mm
Front overhang: 838 mm
Rear overhang: 1,022 mm
Trunk Size: 270 liters
Trunk Size with rear seats folded down: 500 liters
Engine: V12 – 5,748 cc
HP (hp/rpm): 540 HP at 7250
Drivetrain: Rear-wheel drive
Transmission: 6-speed automatic with sequential mode
Front Tires: Bridgestone 245 35 ZR20
Rear Tires: Bridgestone 305 35 ZR20
Brakes: Brembo
Rims: ATP Tecnoforming 20”

Source : www.autoblog.com