How much is a manual conversion for a Ferrari 599?
A: The average price of a Ferrari 599 GTB – Manual Conversions is $199,533. A decent quote for manual conversion nowadays seems to be around $5000. If you want a manual, wait for one. Same with turbos.
How many Ferrari 599 manuals were made?
Only 30 examples were produced with a manual gearbox of which 20 were destined to the United States and 10 remained in Europe leading Ferrari to abandon the use of the manual transmission in its future GT cars. GTB Fiorano was the last V12-engined Ferrari to be equipped with manual transmission. So in 2012, when this 599 GTB Fiorano (chassis 187007) rolled off the production line as the last of 30 599 examples with a manual (and the last Ferrari of any kind with a gear lever), it was mostly ignored as little more than a relic of the past.
How many manual Ferrari 599 were made?
As a consequence, of the 4,000 Ferrari 599s made, only between 32 and 37 examples of the 599 were equipped with the six-speed gated manual, worldwide. A traditional 6-speed manual transmission was offered, as well as Ferrari’s 6-speed automated manual paddle-shift transmission called F1 SuperFast which had a shift time of 100 milliseconds in the standard 599 or 85 milliseconds if equipped with the HGTE package.
Who owns the $70 million Ferrari?
The current record for world’s most expensive Ferrari was set in June 2018 when a 1963 250 GTO (chassis 4153GT) was sold to David MacNeil in a private sale for $70 million. David MacNeil got more than a rare car last year when he spent a reported $70 million to purchase one of only about three-dozen 1963 Ferrari 250 GTOs. He also got a spot on the list of the world’s top 100 car collectors, a list annually compiled by The Collector Car Trust and published in its yearly magazine, The Key.This particular GTO broke all records set by any Ferrari in the past selling for $70 Million to Ferrari collector and founder of WeatherTech, David McNeil in 2018. This 1963 GTO was raced by its previous owner winning the 1964 Tour de France and coming 4 th in the 24 hours of Le Mans.