The Ferrari 599 GTO is the fastest road-going car ever created by the famous Prancing Horse marque, but despite the car’s prowess, to date, Ferrari has only released a paltry five images of its Maranello stunner.

Thankfully though we now have a new gallery revealing every inch of this latest Ferrari.

As mentioned, the 599 GTO is Ferrari’s fastest ever road car. Not surprisingly, it set a record lap time at the Fiorano circuit of just 1 minute 24 seconds. It is an exclusive limited edition special which, in true Ferrari tradition, is a completely new concept, albeit inspired by the 599XX experimental car.

To achieve this status, the regular 599 GTB’s 6,0-litre V12 engine was uprated to 493 kW and the car was put on a diet to reduce overall weight to just 1 4 95 kilograms. This resulted in a 0 – 100 km/h sprint time of 3.35 seconds and a top speed of 335 km/h.

The 599 GTO will be built in a limited run of just 599 cars and, not surprisingly, the full production run has already been accounted for. For more details, take a look at our original preview story here.

The first car from the prancing horse brand to wear the GTO nameplate in almost a quarter of a century, the Ferrari 599 GTO, was officially unveiled to some of the brand’s wealthiest clients at a special ceremony in Modena, Italy this weekend.

Held at Modena’s Ducal Palace, now a military academy, the grand gala involved the participation of Ferrari factory test drivers and military cadets before a crowd of Ferrari’s most elite 500 customers. The exclusive limited edition special is the brand’s fastest ever road car, and although inspired by the production version of the Ferrari 599, is in fact based upon the 599XX – Ferrari’s advanced experimental track car.

A strictly limited run of just 599 examples of the Ferrari 599 GTO will be produced, the car already proving quicker than both the Ferrari Enzo and Ferrari 430 Scuderia, lapping Ferrari’s Fiorano test circuit in just one minute and 24 seconds. If you don’t already know, the Ferrari 599 GTO is powered by a 6,0-litre V12 engine developing 500 kW at 8 250 r/min and peak torque of 620 N.m at 6500rpm. It is mated exclusively to an F1-style six-speed transmission resulting in a power-to-weight ratio of 334 kW per tonne. Using F1-inspired chassis design principles, the car’s dry weight is just 1 495kg. Top speed is rated at 335km/h with the sprint to 100km/h managed in just 3.35 seconds.

Sadly, for customers wishing to express an interest in the Ferrari 599 GTO at its first public appearance, scheduled for the Beijing Motor Show next week, Ferrari tells us that every last one of the exclusive models has now been sold.

Adapted from CarAdvice

Gran Turismo Omologata. Three words that, when acronymed, should send a tingle down the spine of any supercar fan. The Ferrari 250 GTO and 288 GTO are undeniable classics and now there’s a new ‘Omologata’ joining them in the shape of this, the Ferrari 599 GTO.

We’ve been aware of its existence for some time and saw the obligatory spy shots earlier this month, but have had to wait until now for an official unveiling.

Just so you know what we’re talking about here, the Ferrari 599 GTO is officially the company’s fastest road-going car ever produced. The GTO is powered by a 500 kW six-litre V12 with 620 N.m of torque, propelling it to 100 km/h from stand still in just 3.4 seconds and on to a top speed of 335 km/h. It is linked to a six-speed F1-style gearbox, capable of changing gears in 60 milliseconds.

In order to achieve its pace, Ferrari says the car, shares more with the hardcore track-focused 599XX than the production model 599. We were expecting it to look much like the track-only 599XX, but quite are impressed by how faithful it is to the track-focused ‘development car’. Examples of the technology carried over include the car’s ability to generate 144 kg of downforce at 200 km/h according to Ferrari. This has been achieved through changes to the nose of the car, where a front spoiler incorporates a separate lower wing, and the adoption of F1 style wheel doughnuts – a disc positioned outside the brake disc that ensure hot air exiting the wheel arch stays close to the side of the body and reduces drag. By using thinner aluminium and glass, Ferrari has also been able to save weight over the standard 599. Coupled with the carbon-ceramic brakes, and lightweight transmission and exhaust systems, the 599 GTO has a dry weight of 1 495 kg, and delivers a power-to-weight ratio of 334 kW per tonne.

An indication of the car’s pace is given by its lap record beating run around Ferrari’s test track at Fiorano. The company claims it lapped the circuit in 1 minute 24 seconds – a second faster than the previous record set in a Ferrari Enzo.

Styling wise, the rear diffuser is particularly dramatic, while the bonnet that shrouds its front-mounted V12 engine is intricately sculptured, with extra cooling and a neat indent to house optional stripes. Heritage liveries and personalised colour schemes are a standout feature on the 599 GTO’s options list, with scope to create something that looks quite different to the red and carbon car you see here.

Inside the cabin, the GTO has been fitted with longer and more user-friendly carbonfibre gearshift paddles. While the standard 599 has an ‘ice’ traction setting, it is replaced in the 599 GTO by a CT-Off function, which turns traction control off. The car is also fitted with Virtual Race Engineer, which monitors the status of the car and gives feedback on vehicle performance.

Just 599 units will be produced with an estimated starting price in the region of £280 000.

Spy shots never get old, especially when the car that’s being caught on camera is a yet-to-be-released Ferrari 599 GTO. The latest set of photos was taken just outside Ferrari’s Maranello production facility and shows the upcoming 599 GTO in its not-so-camouflaged outfit.

As the first GTO (Gran Turismo Omologatoto) come out of Maranello since the 288 GTO of the 80’s, Ferrari is taking great lengths in making the 599 GTO live up to enormous expectations set around the GTO line. No info has been released yet, but rumors have circulated that the 599 GTO will come with a 6,0-litre V12 engine that produces as much as 522 kilowatts and around 9 000 rpm. The powerful engine, coupled with generous amounts of lightweight carbon fibre, should see the GTO reach 100 km/h from standstill in around 3.2 seconds and hit a top speed of 350 km/h.

Ferrari is expected to produce a limited run of around 500 GTOs, with production set to begin in the latter part of 2010. The price for this legend-in-the-making is estimated to be close to £300 000, or roughly R3.6 million before duties and taxes. Checkout the gallery below for more photos.

Road cars have laws to contend with, and racing cars have regulations to uphold. But for track cars, the sky is the limit. Unfortunately for track enthusiasts, purpose-built track cars built from the ground up with a blank sheet of paper and a limitless sky are few and far between.

One example comes from Ferrari with its XX-rated development program that creates a series of cars that bridge the gap between road and track. First up was the FXX, an Enzo with some extra kit. That was followed by the even more extreme FXX Evoluzione. But at the Geneva show last month, Ferrari took the wraps off the 599XX, a rolling laboratory based on the 599 GTB Fiorano, only unbound by the rules of governing bodies. And while the 599XX’s debut was accompanied by only limited details and even fewer photos, Maranello’s finally released more of each to salivate over.

Over the course of its ongoing development – that is, after all, the point of the XX programs – the 599XX will receive all manner of new features and technologies. There’s even word it may serve as a test bed for the adaptation of Formula One’s KERS regenerative braking system for future road cars. But in the meantime, Ferrari’s engineers have started with a host of aerodynamic and engine modifications. Added aerodynamic elements abound, some more visible than others. Little black winglets protrude from the C-pillars (which themselves were already aerodynamically optimized on the road car), and the wheels integrate F1-style “donuts” to channel the air for optimized cooling and clean airflow. Underneath the bodywork, a new Actiflow system employs a porous diffuser and two fans in the trunk to channel the airflow for increased downforce at cornering speeds or reduced drag at higher speeds. All that and more adds up to 280 kilograms of downforce at 200km/h or 630kg’s at 300km/h. Reduced mass inertia in the engine compartment helps the V12 produce 522 kilowatt at the XX’s stratospheric 9000 RPM redline, the shift program has reduced gear changes to just 60 milliseconds, and the carbon ceramic brake pads are gripped by experimental carbon-fiber calipers to keep it all under control. All that new tech helps the 599XX lap Ferrari’s own Fiorano test track in 1m17s… faster than any road car the company has ever produced, a tick under the FXX’s lap time, and faster than some of the company’s modern race machinery.

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Adapted from AutoBlog