Category: Exotic Sports 
Price Range: £197,673 to £197,673
Hugely fast with sensational acceleration; enormous grip with foolproof, friendly handling and fine feedback; looks terrific and sounds even better; good ride and great usability
Handbrake needs a hefty tug; some early build-quality glitches on test car; will be very expensive
Here's the ultimate front-engined supercar, a car that makes a Mercedes SLR McLaren feel aloof and clumsy. Quicker than an F40 yet a hundredth as frightening, the 599 GTB is a towering achievement, a new benchmark and the fastest-accelerating car we have ever driven on the road
Approx £170,000. On sale in UK October
Even a Ferrari owner must blanch at the cost of filling up a 23-gallon tank and, with a combined official fuel consumption of just 13.3mpg, that's going to happen quite a lot.
This is the downside of Ferrari ownership, along the cost of insurance, but at least the 599 is likely to hold its value for some time to come - there are plenty of orders placed already.
Good news on the maintenance side is that there's no cambelt to change and the new twin-plate clutch should outlast the old single-plate one, whose replacement could be needed with depressing regularity.
