I Bought GREATEST Ferrari GT that NOBODY WANTS a CHEAP Enzo V12 Powered 599 GTB Fiorano
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### **Introduction and Acquisition**
Welcome to Hubie’s Garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of YouTube! I’m currently in Rome, Italy—or perhaps at the Windstar Casino at the Texas-Oklahoma border—where I’ve just picked up a Ferrari 599. This is one of the best Ferraris ever, and if you can get one of only 20 models with a manual transmission, that would be fantastic. However, this particular one isn’t a manual; we’ll address that later.
I had set myself a goal to get rid of one Lamborghini, one Ferrari, and one muscle car. While I slipped up after selling the Lamborghini, who can blame me? This is a gorgeous 2007 Ferrari 599 in an incredible color that doesn’t pop as well on camera. It was the cheapest 599 in the USA at the time, with a clean title and history report. It’s absolutely stunning, one of my favorite Ferraris of all time, and now it’s mine!
I’m driving this beauty back to Dallas from 300 miles away. Once we return to the garage (where it’s not 104 degrees), I’ll give you a full tour of this remarkable Ferrari that belongs to me—because you all watch these videos!
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### **Driving Experience**
This drive home has been flawless and truly inspiring. This car has lived up to every bit of hype in my head, and I’m thrilled I got it. The only other 599 I had driven before was a flood-damaged salvage unit from Car Trek—an absolute disaster with numerous issues. While still an amazing car, this one is in excellent condition and makes it that much better.
The specifications on this Ferrari are unbelievable. In the trunk, you’ll find the full build sheet along with $50,000 worth of service records over the last three years. The previous owner was meticulous about maintenance. The base price for this 599 was $273,000, and the options are insane:
- **Ceramic Brakes:** $18,000
- **Yellow-Painted Calipers:** $1,000
- **Daytona Seats:** $3,000
The color of this car is Venusia, a deep wine/purple/maroon that looks stunning depending on the lighting. It added an extra $10,000 to the price. Other features include:
- A $3,000 Bose Hi-Fi system
- Carbon fiber steering wheel LEDs ($3,500)
These additions brought the total price of this car to almost $350,000 when it was brand new. Back in the day, buying a 360 or 430 would have put you on a waiting list for one of these special Ferraris. Some people paid over sticker by $200,000 for the privilege!
Fast forward to today, and these cars were languishing at Ferrari dealerships with high mileage but still in nice condition—selling for under $100,000. However, prices have started to rise again due to the overheating economy (or what they’re now calling a recession). I was able to purchase this one after it had been on sale for around $133,000. I paid a bit more than that to bring it home with 30,000 miles—a little high side for mileage in the world of Ferraris but worth it for the special spec and recent service history.
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### **Design and Features**
The 599 replaced the 575 in the V12 two-seat category. The 575 was based on the 550, which had been around since the early ‘90s and wasn’t particularly special at the time. This 599 was a dramatic departure, with a clean sheet of paper for its design. It looks absolutely gorgeous—very Ferrari but not overly styled. I love that it’s a coupe rather than a hatchback like the FF or GT4 models.
The engine under the hood is a 6-liter V12, producing 612 horsepower and revving up to 8,300 rpm. It’s derived from the Enzo Ferrari, a supercar worth millions of dollars. The presentation of this engine is stunning—intakes leading into individual combustion chambers that are raised up. Unlike the Enzo, though, this isn’t millions of dollars; it was over $100,000 when new, but still not as expensive as my BMW Z8.
What makes this 599 special compared to the Enzo is its usability. This is a car you’d actually want to use every day—it’s comfortable and refined enough for daily driving while still being incredibly fast. A lot of that has to do with the magnetic ride suspension, which is shared with the C6 Corvette. The partnership between Ferrari and GM goes back to my 355 (which shares its active suspension with the ZR1 Corvette).
In normal mode, this car is smooth and comfortable. But when you dial it up, it feels like a racecar. Speaking of race cars, this one has carbon ceramic brakes, visible through the beautiful multi-spoke wheels and yellow calipers. Everything on this car is functional—there are no fake vents. The grilles vent hot air away from the radiator and intakes.
The engine is further back than the wheels, making it technically a mid-engine car despite being front-engine in layout. It’s 10 inches longer on the wheelbase compared to the 575, even though its overall length is similar. This design gives it a unique look with its flying buttress roofline and C-pillar treatments.
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### **Interior and Value**
Inside, the car is absolutely stunning. The two-tone Daytona seats are light brown and dark brown, with contrasting stitching on the door panels. The black carpets, carbon fiber seat backs, and dash panel add to the luxury. This car feels like a cross-country GT cruiser, not a harsh or crazy hypercar.
The interior smells incredible—rich Italian leather in every detail, including the headliner. While the dashboard is starting to pull away slightly, it has a UV coating on the windshield and window tinting to slow that process down.
This 599 represents an amazing value for its class. The previous owner was meticulous, spending $50,000 on this car over four years. He fixed deferred maintenance issues, updated cooling fans (since he lived in Texas and dealt with 110-degree summers), and even replaced the leather straps in the back—a level of care above and beyond typical ownership.
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### **Service Records and Maintenance**
One reason people are scared off by these cars is their high maintenance costs. However, this particular car has seen a pullback in the market—prices have dropped a few tens of thousands of dollars. When I bought it for around $133,000, it was at 30,000 miles (a bit high for mileage but worth it given its condition).
The big expenses on this car were:
- **Clutch Replacement:** The clutch part alone was $10,000, with additional costs for other odds and ends, totaling $25,166.
- **Radiator Upgrade:** Another significant expense.
Replacing shocks at a Ferrari dealer would cost $20-30,000, but purchasing direct from suppliers like Fur Parts or Scuderia can bring the cost down to around $1,800 per shock. Still, this is a substantial investment, and you might only need to do it once every 15 years or so.
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### **Driving Impressions**
The startup procedure on this Ferrari is pretty cool—just press the start button. The only downside is the radio, which I still can’t figure out how to use properly. However, what this car lacks in radio functionality, it makes up for in its exhaust note—a loud, incredible sound that’s worth every penny.
With the windows down, you can truly appreciate the noise of this Enzo V12 coming out of the front. It’s a driving experience like no other—612 horsepower, 8,300 rpm redline, and acceleration so fast it feels almost supernatural. This car is not just about performance; it’s also about comfort. The suspension in normal or sport mode makes it smooth enough for daily use, while the Daytona seats provide all-day comfort.
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### **Conclusion: Should You Buy a Ferrari 599?**
If you can afford one, I highly recommend getting a 599 while you can. These cars are becoming less of a bargain as prices rise again. While newer Ferraris like the F12 have dual clutch gearboxes (which everyone hates), this 599 has the flappy paddle F1 system—a much better option that can be fixed if needed.
For those who prefer a manual, there are only about 20 examples of the 599 with a six-speed manual transmission. These are now worth close to $1 million or more, but they’re still rare and desirable. However, converting a non-manual version isn’t practical at this time due to costs.
I’m content enjoying this car as is, assuming repairs aren’t too extensive. I plan on driving it cross-country and maybe adding some modifications down the line.
Thank you for watching Hubie’s Garage—we’ll see you in the next video!
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to hubies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i am in rome italy or maybe i'm at the windstar casino at the texas oklahoma border where i've just picked up a ferrari 599 one of the best ferraris ever if you can get one of 20 with a manual transmission but this one isn't but maybe we can fix that more that in a little bit now i did tell myself that i was going to get rid of one lamborghini one ferrari and one muscle car and i may have slipped up after selling the lamborghini but i mean can you blame me it's a gorgeous 2007 ferrari 599 and an incredible color that doesn't pop as well on camera and it was the cheapest 599 in the usa with a clean title and history report and it's absolutely gorgeous it's one of my favorite ferraris of all time and now i got it i'm driving it back from dallas 300 miles we'll get it back into the garage where it's not 104 degrees assuming we don't have any problems and i'll give you a tour of this beautiful ferrari that is mine because you all watch these videos well that was a totally flawless and ah inspiring drive home this car lived up to all of the hype in my head i'm so glad i got it the only 599 i had driven before this was ed bullion's flood salvage one from car trek an absolute disaster with lots of issues it was still an amazing car but this one being really nice it is that much better and the spec is unbelievable i have it here in the trunk the full build sheet along with fifty thousand dollars worth of service records over the last three years because the last owner was absolutely meticulous but the base price on this 599 was 273 thousand dollars and then the options like most ferraris are absolutely insane eighteen thousand dollars for ceramic brakes one thousand dollars for yellow painted calipers you have the daytona seats gorgeous in here three thousand dollars i'll get to a better tour here in a bit showing you all of this the color which is the venusia it is basically a wine color a purple sort of a deep maroon depending on how the light hits it that was 10 000 extra dollars so many other extra things little three thousand dollar bose hi-fi system a lot of little stuff steering wheel carbon fiber leds 3 500 it brought the total on this car to almost 350 000 when it was brand new and these cars were the special ones you'd go in and buy a 360 or a 430 and hope to get in line to buy one of these and then you would pay over sticker in some cases two 300 000 over sticker for one of these for the privilege of buying one of these special ferraris and then 10 years later these things were languishing at ferrari dealerships and cars with miles but still nice history they were selling for under 100 000 and then like everything else the prices started going up and up and unfortunately i thought i had lost my chance to buy one of these when they were reasonable now the economy is overheating they call it they call it a recession but change the definition of a recession uh and cars are actually coming down from their record highs a bubble's not really popped but they are coming back down and i was able to get this after it no sale don't bring a trailer for a hundred and thirty three thousand dollars i paid a little bit more than that to buy this thing and bring it home with 30 000 miles a little bit on the high side for the mileage when it comes to ferraris but the special spec and the recent service history which we'll get to along with a tour absolutely incredible on this car but the fact that these things got that cheap and still remain this cheap considering how rare they are how special they are the engine of the hood is ferrari enzo derived 612 horsepower along with the look of this thing it makes absolutely no sense and it's one of the last bargains in the ferrari world in my opinion and really if you can afford it probably get one while you can because the car that came before it the 550 or the 575 admittedly the f1 versions of those are still cheap but it's a pretty crappy gearbox but a 550 manual is now a 250 000 car or so in this spec and mileage and then the car that replaced it the ferrari f12 yes it has the dual clutch gearbox whereas this one has the flappy paddle f1 that everybody hates but it's actually fantastic on this car and can be fixed those are selling for 350 000 and up in a car in similar condition to this so this sort of in the middle there is the cheaper one for now and i'm so happy that i got one let me take you on a tour and show you how special this thing is like i said earlier the 599 replaced the 575 and the v12 two seat category and the 575 was based on the 550 very long in the tooth the engine dates back to the early 90s with my 456 and really wasn't that special at the time i was getting beaten by a lot of lesser exotic or you know even german porsches and that kind of stuff in the time so this was a dramatic departure clean sheet of paper from that and the design is just gorgeous the venusia paint looks kind of black in the garage actually right now but you can see the grills and the vents and the front end treatments i just absolutely love it it looks very ferrari but also not super over styled i love also that it's a coupe and not say a hatchback like the ffs and the gt4s and all that but still just an amazing value but let's get to the most special part of this car i'm going to pop the hood right here i was talking about it earlier it is the 6 liter v12 in this thing 612 horsepower 8300 rpm redline and they under reported the acceleration on these things so driving it is much faster than they reported and yes it is derived from the enzo ferrari the supercar worth millions of dollars in the presentation it certainly looks like a very expensive very special engine which it is now when i was in italy in the ferrari museum we saw the enzo we saw the engine in the case next to it and it looks a lot like this you can see just gorgeous the intakes going into the individual combustion chambers they're raised up i mean absolutely incredible but unlike the enzo this isn't millions and millions of dollars it was over 100 grand but still not the most expensive car i bought that's still the bmw z8 but one thing that makes this thing really special compared to enzo is this is a car that you'd actually want to use every day you could daily drive this thing it's comfortable enough it's nice enough and a lot of that has to do with the magnetic ride suspension the active suspension on this thing which is shared with the c6 corvettes and coincidentally that partnership goes all the way back to my 355 this shares the same active suspension with the zr1 corvette the c4 from the 90s it's with delphi or delphi whatever it is they share basically the same system going through the decades and it makes the 355 ride and handle a lot better than the 348 when you dial it up and this thing it's very smooth and comfy in normal mode but then when you dial it up it feels like a race car this thing speaking of race car has carbon ceramic brakes on it you can see the beautiful multi-spoke wheels and the yellow calipers a lot of ventilation here everything is functional there's no fake vents on ferraris you can see this one actually vents out you can see here these vents are actually functional in the grilles here to vent out hot air away from the radiator and the intakes and you can see the engine is further back than the wheels they made the 599 about 10 inches longer on the wheelbase than the 575 even though it's similar overall length and that sort of makes it technically a mid-engine although front engine because you can see the bulk of the engine is behind the front wheels which is really really cool and i love the styling of this thing some people don't like it i don't see why maybe it's in person it looks a lot better kind of like how i probably look a lot better in person on camera look kind of dorky so maybe this car is dorky or maybe i'm just totally dorky and this car is dorky i don't know but i love vintage cars so maybe that's why i like this sort of swoop with the line going up it makes the trunk a little bit higher and well the flying buttress is just absolutely gorgeous you see it here the c-pillar is its own sort of pillar on its own with the glass sort of swooping in and it's actually functional i could stick my head in here and you can see it sort of acts as a spoiler and gives you down force you have some downforce spoiler with this rear flying buttress and it's one of the coolest styling aspects of this car and it's giving me weird vision because i'm looking out of both eyes but anyway it also has sort of a lower spoiler down here you can see how pretty this is the 2b exhaust as well and of course it's just as smooth underneath as it is on top with all the underbody panels when we get this thing to the car wizards i'm sure there won't be too much to see without pulling off panels hopefully there's not a lot of issues but when you come back in here to the interior it is absolutely gorgeous you have the two-tone daytona seats sort of a light brown and dark brown same with door panels with the contrasting stitching the black carpets carbon fiber seat backs carbon fiber dash panel but everything in here is just so nice and the car is so comfortable because primarily this is like a cross-country gt cruiser this isn't supposed to be some harsh crazy thing and they do such a great job but it is still way fast and way fun to drive when you turn all these knobs up it has the led lights and the carbon fiber here with the steering wheel like the later ferraris like a formula one car frees you out air conditioning you can see the quilted panels down here it's also quilted in the back and you see the straps for the luggage it's just absolutely gorgeous and there's no smell-o-vision on youtube but the things just smells incredible as well it's just rich italian leather even in the headliner it's two-tone rich italian leather of course like all these cars the dash is starting to pull away a little bit but not bad it actually has a uv coating on the windshield down the window tinting which will help hopefully slow that down but one thing that isn't slow is this car when you drive it but before we go let me show you the service records because that's one of the reasons why people are so scared of these things is the upkeep costs now like i said there's been a little bit of a pullback in the market so this car has gone down a few tens of thousands of dollars and probably a lot of my other cars in my collection but i don't feel bad because i can get something like this now it's a lot more affordable which is why i buy cars in the first place because i want them not because i want to make money on them but i imagine the seller of this car he was very meticulous he probably sold it for more than what he paid for because he bought about four years ago when these things were at their cheapest but he spent about fifty thousand dollars on this car so he lost i'm sure even if he bought it for an incredible deal back that time around a hundred thousand dollars he spent 50 grand on this car in the short time he owned it on some incredible things uh first of all this one hundred dollars for a full ppf ceramic coating and window tinting which does sound like a lot of money but this is basically the mona lisa of ppf the entire car is protected with vinyl and you can't even tell and i really wanted to obsess over cleaning this car for an hour when i got back on my trip and it took all of 10 minutes because it's so easy to clean with this ppf on there and you cannot even tell it is gorgeous now when he first got it he had a pretty good bill here just going through and fixing sticky buttons hood shocks a lot of deferred maintenance things uh typical from buying from a dealer somebody who didn't care about their car and wasn't driving it very much but this was at 27 200 miles it's at 30 now when i drove it home so they put 2 000 miles on it dome buttons a lot of sticky buttons and fixes ten thousand dollars though for all that servicing all fresh fluids a pretty big one other than that it's been little one thousands two thousands here and there ac fixes they replace the leather straps on the back there which is above and beyond ac repairs inspections he did update the cooling fans on this as well because he lives in texas 110 degrees is not uncommon in the summer and he wanted to drive this thing whenever he wanted so he fixed that but the big tamale is right here and that was basically a coolant upgrade with the radiator uh going through the brakes but the biggie was the clutch which i believe just the part on it was ten thousand dollars making a grand total of twenty five thousand one hundred and sixty six dollars to do a clutch uh radiator and some other odds and ends on this car twenty five thousand dollars which uh that's one of the two big things on this car the clutch and then of course the shocks which he said we're not leaking they don't clunk or anything like that but it is a big issue at the ferrari dealer they'd want 20 or 30 grand to replace all the shocks on this thing even though they're shared with a corvette but you can buy direct through like fur parts or scuderia from the supplier for like 1800 per a shock which is a lot of money uh but still way better than going to the dealer and hopefully you only have to do it once every 15 years or so depending on how much you drive the car it seems like the less you drive it the more likely they are to leak from sitting and i certainly plan on driving this car that's why i didn't mind buying one with 30 000 miles in the ferrari world that's high mileage but i want to use the thing it's at 30 000 miles it'll be worth the same if it's at 35 or 37 000 miles so i can really drive the heck out of this thing but i may do a bit more i may mod it so let's go for a drive we'll talk more about this ferrari and what i may do with it the startup procedure on this thing is pretty cool start button one really dumb thing with this car though is the radio i cannot figure out how to work it just manually train stations it's quite dumb but what isn't dumb is the exhaust note it is loud incredible now i'm going to put the windows down for this so you can hear it in all of ferrari's glory basically what makes this one of the best ferraris of all time is this brace yourselves the noise that enzo v12 coming out of the front the exhaust holy monthly the traction control got me there one more time and it's the best sounding car that i own buy a lot 612 horsepower v12 revs to 8300 rpm yes 8 300 rpm but not only does it do that you put it in fifth or sixth it's quiet the suspension in normal sport it's comfortable the seats are comfortable i can point this thing cross country and drive it anywhere it's not a hyper car crazy super car that compromises on that you can actually enjoy this thing for normal driving daily use traffic it wouldn't be intolerable this is just the best thing ever finally a highway on-ramp so i can open this thing up just wild absolutely crazy acceleration on this thing uh yeah my gt500 mustang may be faster but it doesn't make that noise it doesn't rip to 8300 rpm with an italian v12 it's just unreal it's real and then look at this million dollar driving view from basically one tenth of the price it is so much car for the money so the first biggest gripe with these cars is the maintenance which it is substantial but still better than buying a new ferrari or a new mercedes or new bmw and taking that massive depreciation hit but also then other reason is this gearbox which people hate they love to hate the f1 flappy paddle system but this was as good as it got and it is very refined it is very quick it ships faster than any human can obviously the 355 when it had it it was pretty terrible and i did make a case for it to my vanquish even though it is quite a bit slower than this one but that's the one that clarkson really roasted the one in the vanquish and really gave it the term flappy paddle gearbox and stuff but this one it is so darn quick just incredible uh but if you want to do away with it it is actually possible now like i said they actually made manual versions of the 599 only about 20 and those are worth uh getting close to a million bucks now or more but since they exist they can be reverse engineered and the people at eag are finishing one up normal guy supercar dan supposedly will have the first one out and he's invited me to drive it and they've invited me to take this car and have it converted to a six-speed manual which would make it the greatest gated manual ferrari of all time cost around you know 40 grand or something like that which if one of these cars is worth low 100s and a gated car is worth a million bucks what's a conversion worth with a 360 or a 430 a factory manual car is worth about a hundred grand more than a f1 car and then one that's converted is worth somewhere in between maybe 50 or 60 still worth more than the conversion but with the even greater delta here in values on the 599 what's a conversion of one of these going to be worth what's one of the first ones going to be um i'm not a guy that buys cars for investments i buy them because i want them but the thought of that it's very tempting even though this system is really really good but i'm going to wait until dan has his all finished i can drive it make sure it doesn't have any lights or weird issues or any of that kind of stuff and then most likely i'll be sending the car over to get these flappy paddles taken off but if that never happens i am perfectly content enjoying this car as is assuming uh the repairs aren't too awful i didn't inspect it obviously before buying so uh there may be some issues we'll see when we head to the car wizard in my next video thank you so much for watchingwelcome to hubies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i am in rome italy or maybe i'm at the windstar casino at the texas oklahoma border where i've just picked up a ferrari 599 one of the best ferraris ever if you can get one of 20 with a manual transmission but this one isn't but maybe we can fix that more that in a little bit now i did tell myself that i was going to get rid of one lamborghini one ferrari and one muscle car and i may have slipped up after selling the lamborghini but i mean can you blame me it's a gorgeous 2007 ferrari 599 and an incredible color that doesn't pop as well on camera and it was the cheapest 599 in the usa with a clean title and history report and it's absolutely gorgeous it's one of my favorite ferraris of all time and now i got it i'm driving it back from dallas 300 miles we'll get it back into the garage where it's not 104 degrees assuming we don't have any problems and i'll give you a tour of this beautiful ferrari that is mine because you all watch these videos well that was a totally flawless and ah inspiring drive home this car lived up to all of the hype in my head i'm so glad i got it the only 599 i had driven before this was ed bullion's flood salvage one from car trek an absolute disaster with lots of issues it was still an amazing car but this one being really nice it is that much better and the spec is unbelievable i have it here in the trunk the full build sheet along with fifty thousand dollars worth of service records over the last three years because the last owner was absolutely meticulous but the base price on this 599 was 273 thousand dollars and then the options like most ferraris are absolutely insane eighteen thousand dollars for ceramic brakes one thousand dollars for yellow painted calipers you have the daytona seats gorgeous in here three thousand dollars i'll get to a better tour here in a bit showing you all of this the color which is the venusia it is basically a wine color a purple sort of a deep maroon depending on how the light hits it that was 10 000 extra dollars so many other extra things little three thousand dollar bose hi-fi system a lot of little stuff steering wheel carbon fiber leds 3 500 it brought the total on this car to almost 350 000 when it was brand new and these cars were the special ones you'd go in and buy a 360 or a 430 and hope to get in line to buy one of these and then you would pay over sticker in some cases two 300 000 over sticker for one of these for the privilege of buying one of these special ferraris and then 10 years later these things were languishing at ferrari dealerships and cars with miles but still nice history they were selling for under 100 000 and then like everything else the prices started going up and up and unfortunately i thought i had lost my chance to buy one of these when they were reasonable now the economy is overheating they call it they call it a recession but change the definition of a recession uh and cars are actually coming down from their record highs a bubble's not really popped but they are coming back down and i was able to get this after it no sale don't bring a trailer for a hundred and thirty three thousand dollars i paid a little bit more than that to buy this thing and bring it home with 30 000 miles a little bit on the high side for the mileage when it comes to ferraris but the special spec and the recent service history which we'll get to along with a tour absolutely incredible on this car but the fact that these things got that cheap and still remain this cheap considering how rare they are how special they are the engine of the hood is ferrari enzo derived 612 horsepower along with the look of this thing it makes absolutely no sense and it's one of the last bargains in the ferrari world in my opinion and really if you can afford it probably get one while you can because the car that came before it the 550 or the 575 admittedly the f1 versions of those are still cheap but it's a pretty crappy gearbox but a 550 manual is now a 250 000 car or so in this spec and mileage and then the car that replaced it the ferrari f12 yes it has the dual clutch gearbox whereas this one has the flappy paddle f1 that everybody hates but it's actually fantastic on this car and can be fixed those are selling for 350 000 and up in a car in similar condition to this so this sort of in the middle there is the cheaper one for now and i'm so happy that i got one let me take you on a tour and show you how special this thing is like i said earlier the 599 replaced the 575 and the v12 two seat category and the 575 was based on the 550 very long in the tooth the engine dates back to the early 90s with my 456 and really wasn't that special at the time i was getting beaten by a lot of lesser exotic or you know even german porsches and that kind of stuff in the time so this was a dramatic departure clean sheet of paper from that and the design is just gorgeous the venusia paint looks kind of black in the garage actually right now but you can see the grills and the vents and the front end treatments i just absolutely love it it looks very ferrari but also not super over styled i love also that it's a coupe and not say a hatchback like the ffs and the gt4s and all that but still just an amazing value but let's get to the most special part of this car i'm going to pop the hood right here i was talking about it earlier it is the 6 liter v12 in this thing 612 horsepower 8300 rpm redline and they under reported the acceleration on these things so driving it is much faster than they reported and yes it is derived from the enzo ferrari the supercar worth millions of dollars in the presentation it certainly looks like a very expensive very special engine which it is now when i was in italy in the ferrari museum we saw the enzo we saw the engine in the case next to it and it looks a lot like this you can see just gorgeous the intakes going into the individual combustion chambers they're raised up i mean absolutely incredible but unlike the enzo this isn't millions and millions of dollars it was over 100 grand but still not the most expensive car i bought that's still the bmw z8 but one thing that makes this thing really special compared to enzo is this is a car that you'd actually want to use every day you could daily drive this thing it's comfortable enough it's nice enough and a lot of that has to do with the magnetic ride suspension the active suspension on this thing which is shared with the c6 corvettes and coincidentally that partnership goes all the way back to my 355 this shares the same active suspension with the zr1 corvette the c4 from the 90s it's with delphi or delphi whatever it is they share basically the same system going through the decades and it makes the 355 ride and handle a lot better than the 348 when you dial it up and this thing it's very smooth and comfy in normal mode but then when you dial it up it feels like a race car this thing speaking of race car has carbon ceramic brakes on it you can see the beautiful multi-spoke wheels and the yellow calipers a lot of ventilation here everything is functional there's no fake vents on ferraris you can see this one actually vents out you can see here these vents are actually functional in the grilles here to vent out hot air away from the radiator and the intakes and you can see the engine is further back than the wheels they made the 599 about 10 inches longer on the wheelbase than the 575 even though it's similar overall length and that sort of makes it technically a mid-engine although front engine because you can see the bulk of the engine is behind the front wheels which is really really cool and i love the styling of this thing some people don't like it i don't see why maybe it's in person it looks a lot better kind of like how i probably look a lot better in person on camera look kind of dorky so maybe this car is dorky or maybe i'm just totally dorky and this car is dorky i don't know but i love vintage cars so maybe that's why i like this sort of swoop with the line going up it makes the trunk a little bit higher and well the flying buttress is just absolutely gorgeous you see it here the c-pillar is its own sort of pillar on its own with the glass sort of swooping in and it's actually functional i could stick my head in here and you can see it sort of acts as a spoiler and gives you down force you have some downforce spoiler with this rear flying buttress and it's one of the coolest styling aspects of this car and it's giving me weird vision because i'm looking out of both eyes but anyway it also has sort of a lower spoiler down here you can see how pretty this is the 2b exhaust as well and of course it's just as smooth underneath as it is on top with all the underbody panels when we get this thing to the car wizards i'm sure there won't be too much to see without pulling off panels hopefully there's not a lot of issues but when you come back in here to the interior it is absolutely gorgeous you have the two-tone daytona seats sort of a light brown and dark brown same with door panels with the contrasting stitching the black carpets carbon fiber seat backs carbon fiber dash panel but everything in here is just so nice and the car is so comfortable because primarily this is like a cross-country gt cruiser this isn't supposed to be some harsh crazy thing and they do such a great job but it is still way fast and way fun to drive when you turn all these knobs up it has the led lights and the carbon fiber here with the steering wheel like the later ferraris like a formula one car frees you out air conditioning you can see the quilted panels down here it's also quilted in the back and you see the straps for the luggage it's just absolutely gorgeous and there's no smell-o-vision on youtube but the things just smells incredible as well it's just rich italian leather even in the headliner it's two-tone rich italian leather of course like all these cars the dash is starting to pull away a little bit but not bad it actually has a uv coating on the windshield down the window tinting which will help hopefully slow that down but one thing that isn't slow is this car when you drive it but before we go let me show you the service records because that's one of the reasons why people are so scared of these things is the upkeep costs now like i said there's been a little bit of a pullback in the market so this car has gone down a few tens of thousands of dollars and probably a lot of my other cars in my collection but i don't feel bad because i can get something like this now it's a lot more affordable which is why i buy cars in the first place because i want them not because i want to make money on them but i imagine the seller of this car he was very meticulous he probably sold it for more than what he paid for because he bought about four years ago when these things were at their cheapest but he spent about fifty thousand dollars on this car so he lost i'm sure even if he bought it for an incredible deal back that time around a hundred thousand dollars he spent 50 grand on this car in the short time he owned it on some incredible things uh first of all this one hundred dollars for a full ppf ceramic coating and window tinting which does sound like a lot of money but this is basically the mona lisa of ppf the entire car is protected with vinyl and you can't even tell and i really wanted to obsess over cleaning this car for an hour when i got back on my trip and it took all of 10 minutes because it's so easy to clean with this ppf on there and you cannot even tell it is gorgeous now when he first got it he had a pretty good bill here just going through and fixing sticky buttons hood shocks a lot of deferred maintenance things uh typical from buying from a dealer somebody who didn't care about their car and wasn't driving it very much but this was at 27 200 miles it's at 30 now when i drove it home so they put 2 000 miles on it dome buttons a lot of sticky buttons and fixes ten thousand dollars though for all that servicing all fresh fluids a pretty big one other than that it's been little one thousands two thousands here and there ac fixes they replace the leather straps on the back there which is above and beyond ac repairs inspections he did update the cooling fans on this as well because he lives in texas 110 degrees is not uncommon in the summer and he wanted to drive this thing whenever he wanted so he fixed that but the big tamale is right here and that was basically a coolant upgrade with the radiator uh going through the brakes but the biggie was the clutch which i believe just the part on it was ten thousand dollars making a grand total of twenty five thousand one hundred and sixty six dollars to do a clutch uh radiator and some other odds and ends on this car twenty five thousand dollars which uh that's one of the two big things on this car the clutch and then of course the shocks which he said we're not leaking they don't clunk or anything like that but it is a big issue at the ferrari dealer they'd want 20 or 30 grand to replace all the shocks on this thing even though they're shared with a corvette but you can buy direct through like fur parts or scuderia from the supplier for like 1800 per a shock which is a lot of money uh but still way better than going to the dealer and hopefully you only have to do it once every 15 years or so depending on how much you drive the car it seems like the less you drive it the more likely they are to leak from sitting and i certainly plan on driving this car that's why i didn't mind buying one with 30 000 miles in the ferrari world that's high mileage but i want to use the thing it's at 30 000 miles it'll be worth the same if it's at 35 or 37 000 miles so i can really drive the heck out of this thing but i may do a bit more i may mod it so let's go for a drive we'll talk more about this ferrari and what i may do with it the startup procedure on this thing is pretty cool start button one really dumb thing with this car though is the radio i cannot figure out how to work it just manually train stations it's quite dumb but what isn't dumb is the exhaust note it is loud incredible now i'm going to put the windows down for this so you can hear it in all of ferrari's glory basically what makes this one of the best ferraris of all time is this brace yourselves the noise that enzo v12 coming out of the front the exhaust holy monthly the traction control got me there one more time and it's the best sounding car that i own buy a lot 612 horsepower v12 revs to 8300 rpm yes 8 300 rpm but not only does it do that you put it in fifth or sixth it's quiet the suspension in normal sport it's comfortable the seats are comfortable i can point this thing cross country and drive it anywhere it's not a hyper car crazy super car that compromises on that you can actually enjoy this thing for normal driving daily use traffic it wouldn't be intolerable this is just the best thing ever finally a highway on-ramp so i can open this thing up just wild absolutely crazy acceleration on this thing uh yeah my gt500 mustang may be faster but it doesn't make that noise it doesn't rip to 8300 rpm with an italian v12 it's just unreal it's real and then look at this million dollar driving view from basically one tenth of the price it is so much car for the money so the first biggest gripe with these cars is the maintenance which it is substantial but still better than buying a new ferrari or a new mercedes or new bmw and taking that massive depreciation hit but also then other reason is this gearbox which people hate they love to hate the f1 flappy paddle system but this was as good as it got and it is very refined it is very quick it ships faster than any human can obviously the 355 when it had it it was pretty terrible and i did make a case for it to my vanquish even though it is quite a bit slower than this one but that's the one that clarkson really roasted the one in the vanquish and really gave it the term flappy paddle gearbox and stuff but this one it is so darn quick just incredible uh but if you want to do away with it it is actually possible now like i said they actually made manual versions of the 599 only about 20 and those are worth uh getting close to a million bucks now or more but since they exist they can be reverse engineered and the people at eag are finishing one up normal guy supercar dan supposedly will have the first one out and he's invited me to drive it and they've invited me to take this car and have it converted to a six-speed manual which would make it the greatest gated manual ferrari of all time cost around you know 40 grand or something like that which if one of these cars is worth low 100s and a gated car is worth a million bucks what's a conversion worth with a 360 or a 430 a factory manual car is worth about a hundred grand more than a f1 car and then one that's converted is worth somewhere in between maybe 50 or 60 still worth more than the conversion but with the even greater delta here in values on the 599 what's a conversion of one of these going to be worth what's one of the first ones going to be um i'm not a guy that buys cars for investments i buy them because i want them but the thought of that it's very tempting even though this system is really really good but i'm going to wait until dan has his all finished i can drive it make sure it doesn't have any lights or weird issues or any of that kind of stuff and then most likely i'll be sending the car over to get these flappy paddles taken off but if that never happens i am perfectly content enjoying this car as is assuming uh the repairs aren't too awful i didn't inspect it obviously before buying so uh there may be some issues we'll see when we head to the car wizard in my next video thank you so much for watching\n"