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Ferrari for decades one of the most
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legendary names and
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Automobiles now a new model is hitting
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the
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streets one and a/4 tons of high
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performance sports
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car engineered with the Precision of a
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spacecraft the fastest most powerful
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production car Ferrari has ever
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designed and this is where it's being
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made inside Ferrari's ultimate
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Factory high-end sports
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car fast
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luxurious and very very
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expensive each has its own claim to
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fame but one has become an icon
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Ferrari to some it's a
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car to others it's a work of
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art to many it's the perfect Fusion of
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both the name Ferrari conjures high
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performance and breathtaking
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design few cars have carried such an
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aura of Legend and Mystique through the
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decades the Ferrari of the Formula 1
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track the winningest name in the history
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of the sport
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the Ferrari of the open road an iconic
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sports car of the
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ages whether for the racetrack or for
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the road every Ferrari is
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handcrafted Northern Italy the town of
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Marinello this is the site of Ferrari's
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ultimate
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Factory part high-tech garage
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part Art
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Studio a place where raw metal is
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transformed into raw
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power and where cars are created like
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sculptures its buildings are every bit
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as sleek and modern as the cars created
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here because Ferrari makes cars for the
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street and for the racetrack the factory
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boasts some unique
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features a wind tunnel for research and
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development designed by Italy's super
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architect Renzo
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Piano an engine works flooded by natural
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light with trees to provide exactly the
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right humidity for engine
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construction even a 2-m private RAC
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trck used to trial Ferrari's latest race
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cars and Road tested sports
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cars these are the buildings through
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which every Ferrari makes its first
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journey and for 3,000 workers along the
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way being here is an Italian
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dream for us Italians Ferrari has always
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been a myth always I mean the boys here
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grow up with Ferrari
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in few Outsiders and even fewer cameras
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are ever allowed into Ferrari's Factory
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security is
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intense for Ferrari's Formula 1 team
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that's based at the factory there's the
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everpresent threat of industrial
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Espionage and ferrar's Formula 1 Secrets
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go straight into its street
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cars this is the fastest and most
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powerful production car Ferrari has ever
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designed the Fano
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599 its speed tops 200 mph and it's
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price over
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$260,000 Ferrari's president Luca Deon
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zimolo for me this kind of cars means
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freedom breaking acceleration handling
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engine music all these ingredients make
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Ferrari something
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unique 5 years of research and
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development have gone into Ferrari's
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newest
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model so have 60 years of
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History Ferrari's legendary founder Enzo
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Ferrari was a racing
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purist to him Ferrari's street cars were
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just a way to help fund his for Formula
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1
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team early Ferrari sports cars may have
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been beautiful to look at but they were
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notoriously hard to drive their racing
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characteristics weren't suited to the
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open
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road but over the decades ver has moved
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closer and closer to designing a sports
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car that puts all the company's Formula
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1 experience into the ultimate Street
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Machine
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the fiorano 599 is that
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car Ferrari's designers and workers face
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a daunting challenge build a car with
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the so and speed of a Formula 1
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racer but that handles smooth as silk on
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real world
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streets make it beautiful befitting the
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Ferrari Legacy of Art and
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motion and dress it in luxury worthy of
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$260,000 price
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tag race car street car work of
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art luxury
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item a tall order for the team at
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Ferrari's Marinello
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Factory it's a vast complex 45 buildings
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with enough space to fit 50 football
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fields in all eight separate sections of
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the factory will build the 5 9 from
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scratch from the fires of The
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Foundry to the beauty of the body shop
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from the robotic Precision of the engine
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works in the paint shop to the hand
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crafting of the 599's leather
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upholstery and the final assembly line
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where it all comes
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together the Factory's first challenge
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giving the 599 its signature trait speed
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the 599 boasts a V12 engine putting out
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620
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horsepower and The Foundry is where that
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key component begins its
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life here Ferrari's metal workers have
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to cast the two core elements of the
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engine the cylinder head and the engine
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block
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most factories mass-produce these parts
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but Ferrari turns them out one at a
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time a separate mold is made for every
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single
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engine they're made out of compacted
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sand and
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resin other car companies use sand
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casts but at high-end factories like
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Ferrari workers finish the sand molds by
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hand
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it takes around 5 hours to hand finish
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the molds for a single V12
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engine they're fitted together like an
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intricate three-dimensional
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jigsaw to minimize the chance of chips
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cracks or
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flaws this will be cast into the
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cylinder head of a 599
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a flaming torch blackens the sand model
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with a thin layer of
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carbon the carbon layer acts as a
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lubricant to let the molten metal flow
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smoothly into the spaces of the
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cast it's time the molds are
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ready the molten metal is prepared just
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as carefully as the sand molds
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in the melting process obviously there
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can't be any mistakes it has to be of
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the highest quality to be able to
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sustain a car that goes over 200
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mph at temperatures of over 1300Β° F the
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heart of the 599 engine begins its fiery
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birth
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this is what they're going to
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[Applause]
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build this is where it
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starts in the Ferrari Foundry the main
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furnace is fired
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up the metal will be cast into the core
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of the 599's mighty engine is being
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melted
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some of the raw metal being fed into the
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furnace comes from previously cast
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components that have failed Ferrari's
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quality
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checks the metal melts almost instantly
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as massive electrical charges are fired
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through
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it melting the two tons of metal in
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furnace uses enough electricity in one
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day to light a house for a year
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the raw molten metal pours into a giant
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Crucible for further
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purifying at
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1300Β° it looks like liquid
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silver but this is a super strong super
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secret aluminum alloy specifically
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created for Ferrari's
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engines nitrogen pumps through the metal
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in The Crucible combining with any
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impurities which float to the
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surface the pure alloy is transferred to
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smaller holding tanks from which the
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engine components will be
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cast this mold of compacted sand is
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about to become the cylinder head of one
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of the most powerful production car
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engines ever
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made the metal gushes into the
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mold there's a casting here every 10
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minutes incredibly only one in every 50
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components fails its quality test and is
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sent back to the scrap
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Heap while The Foundry casts the
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Ferrari's B12
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heart in another building workers
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fashion its
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body like many high-end sports car
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makers Ferrari's body sh is part Art
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Studio but while the 599 may be
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Ferrari's latest artwork it's also a
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masterpiece of aerodynamic
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engineering thousands of hours have gone
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into designing a sports car that's not
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only beautiful but can cheat the air
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almost as well as Ferrari's Formula 1
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race
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cars in essence the 599's body shape is
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the opp opposite of an aircraft
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Wing at high speed its streamlined body
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creates negative
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lift using the airf flow over and
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through it to press the car to the
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road at its top speed of over 200
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mph that downforce is equivalent to a
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400 lb weight
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the downforce means more secure Road
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handling and far better traction out of
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Corners the Ferrari streamlined body
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needs strong
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support if you want to put a Formula 1
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race car on the street you need a
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chassis that can take the stresses of
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high speed and high
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performance made entirely of aluminum
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alloy the 599's chassis must be strong
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enough to do three things H withstand
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high-speed
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impacts anchor the 500 lb V12
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engine which produces a tremendous
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amount of torque and
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power the chassis also has to provide a
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strong mount for the wheel assembly and
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suspension at high speeds the wheels of
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a sports car go up and down like a
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jackhammer
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so Ferrari equipped the 599's chassis
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with super tough suspension
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mounts regular cars chassis are put
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together by machines but high
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performance sports cars like the 599 are
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hand
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welded it means the chassis can be more
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exactly shaped and the body panels more
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precisely
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fitted with the 599's chassis now welded
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and the first of its body panels
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attached
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it's time for one of the Factory's
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robots to take
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over it's basically a gigantic
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stapler the robot is programmed to
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precisely Drive 180 rivets at specific
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points over the entire
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chassis the rivets give the car the
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muscle to hold itself together at 200
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plus
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mph but the chassis can't move down the
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line before it passes a rigorous
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test another robot comes into play
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equipped with needlelike probes
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the probes test the chassis in 800
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different
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places at each point they touch the
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metal they're measuring the body against
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a computer
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model searching for tiny cracks in the
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metal or any flaw in the chassis's
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overall
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shape if a flaw is detected the chassis
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is sent back but that only happens to
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one in every
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hundred after an exhaustive examination
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the robot arms raise for the last time
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the 599's metal skeleton is now ready to
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receive the rest of its sculpted body
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panels back in The Foundry the engine
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casts are
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complete 7 minutes later the casts have
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cooled enough for the sand molds to be
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removed there's nothing too Hightech
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about this
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process the compressed sand is just
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shaken off the solidified
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metal the high performance specs of the
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599 require engine parts that are
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perfect powerful x-rays scan the cast
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components looking for microscopic
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cracks or flaws in the metal
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the slightest vibration from a defect in
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the finished engine will be magnified at
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high
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speed worst case scenario the engine
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itself could
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fail components that pass the X-ray test
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are hand finished then they're checked
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again it's no surpris that Ferrari
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Foundry workers feel they're making more
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than just an engine
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we create the soul and then someone else
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adds the organs to make it
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live in the body shop metal is becoming
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art as the 599 Sleek outer shell meets
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its
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chassis when anyone thinks of a Ferrari
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you think of two things in particular
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one the motor immense power the sound
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the growl of it and second the external
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beauty of the
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Ferrari like its chassis the Ferrari's
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body panels are
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aluminum it may be the most powerful
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production car the company's ever
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made but it's fully aluminum
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construction means it's also one of the
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lightest the 599 has more power
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propelling Less
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Car workers the do hood and trunk to
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their Precision hinges and align them to
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within a thousandth of an
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inch from this point on it's all about
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art creating a finished body that's as
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close to Flawless as
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possible The Body Shop Specialists check
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for trouble spots dense or flaws no
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matter how
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small to Ferrari people this is no
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longer longer a car it's a
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sculpture in a sealed plexiglass room
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where no spec of dust can interfere with
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its final inspection the 599 is given
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the thumbs up to move out of the body
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shop we'd have to guarantee the perfect
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shape the unique finishing consequently
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the perfect paint job
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this aluminum artwork is now on track
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with a perfect
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finish the workers of The Foundry and
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The Body Shop have done their
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jobs the 599 Soul has been smelted from
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raw
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metal its body assembled with
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Precision but there's still a lot of
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mechanical magic to be spun at this
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ultimate Factory before Body and Soul
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can come together
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at Ferrari's Marinello Factory in
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Northern Italy The Unfinished Fano 599
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takes its next step towards the Finish
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Line This is Ferrari's 21st century
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paint shop one of the most advanced of
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its kind in any car factory
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the environment is a high priority for
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this paint shop most materials are
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water-based and nearly all waste is
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captured and
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recycled Formula 1 Racers don't have to
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worry about rust but the 599 is built
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for the
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streets before they can be painted
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every 599 car body receives an
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anti-corrosion
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treatment Ferrari claims it's the most
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advanced rust proofing in the
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world a claim that's hard to test
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because the chemical process going on
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here is a trade
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secret the on ton bodies are plunged
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tipped and
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shaken every one of these giant bads
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chemically Alters the metal of the car's
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body creating a super thin armor against
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the
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elements these anti-corrosion bands also
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give the 599's body a positive
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electrical
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charge that's vital for the next stage
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of the painting
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process at the end of this tunnel lies
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the real work of the paint shop
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a glass walled hermetically sealed Place
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populated by graceful robots and their
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human
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controllers the chambers are sealed to
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avoid any air drafts that might cause
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the tiny particles of primer and paint
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to drift and create an uneven
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finish this first coat is primer a
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special compound that binds the actual
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paint to the body
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the primer is a fine dust as fine as
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talcum
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powder it sticks to the body because of
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the electrical charge the metal was
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given
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earlier the body Glides into a giant
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oven which bakes the primer fusing it
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onto the metal and providing the
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foundation layer for the Ferrari's final
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paint
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finish every stage of a Ferrari's
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Construction is about
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beauty and
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power the 599's V12 engine is that
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power it's created here in Ferrari's
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engine
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works the engine blocks and cylinder
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heads cast in The Foundry are now fine
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tuned to an almost microscopic degree
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other workers turn out the rest of the
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engine's 800
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Parts Ferrari's engine works is an
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architectural
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Triumph natural light floods in through
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a glass
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roof it's environmentally efficient and
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provides better light for
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workers the trees growing indoors are a
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feature found in no other car factory in
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the world
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these trees help maintain the ideal
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humidity and air quality levels for
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engine
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construction they're also here to ensure
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the workers's
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Comfort this Factory is rated as one of
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the best places to work in
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Italy all through the engine works
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Ferrari's Metal Workers are Machining
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the most detailed components of the V12
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engine this tiny valve is only one of
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the 599 engine's 800
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components it alone takes nearly an hour
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to
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make but while the emphasis is on hand
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crafting there are two very special
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robots in the engine
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works the first is a robot they call
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Romeo and
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Juliet these these two arms are Romeo
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giving Juliet a
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ring but this is no ordinary
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Ring The Ring is actually the valve seat
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in the engine cylinder it forms a seal
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through which the valve moves and allows
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air into the chamber where it mixes with
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the fuel and explodes with the valve
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moving in and out thousands of times a
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second the valve seat must be tight
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immovable in fact if it came loose it
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could enter the engine and cause
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complete
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failure Romeo dips each Val ring into a
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bath of liquid
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nitrogen freezing it to- 300Β° and
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shrinking it by a tiny
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amount juliat holds the cylinder head
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while Romeo sets the Val ring in
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place in the following few seconds the
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Frozen ring warms and
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expands it's now locked in
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place the second of the engine works 2
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robots has to fine-tune another critical
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component the
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crankshaft the power generated by the
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599's engine
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is transferred through the
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crankshaft to the
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transmission to the drive
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shaft to the
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wheels and then to the open
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road when it's spinning at over 8,000
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RPM any imperfections will cause the
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crankshaft to become unbalanced and
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create potentially destructive
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vibrations through the entire
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[Music]
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engine the robot drills shaves and
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grinds the
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crankshaft making it perfectly
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[Music]
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balanced 800 separate components being
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made fine-tuned and checked all through
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the engine
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works from its birth from molten metal
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in The Foundry the 599's engine is about
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to be assembled into its final
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form while the engine works builds the
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power the paint shop adds the beauty
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Ferrari is famous
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for now the final coats of paint are
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applied
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unlike the primer the paint is liquid
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tiny droplets spin out from the tips of
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these robot
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arms their movements have been precisely
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programmed in computer
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models the robots apply exactly the
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right amount of paint to achieve a
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perfectly even
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Surface after the paint comes an ultra
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tough clear ceramic layer
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the clear ceramic coat provides extreme
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scratch
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resistance something you want when
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you're spending A4 Million Dollar on
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your
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car though 12 colors are standard 599
00:29:15
owners can order the car in any color
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they
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choose the bodies are polished to a
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surface as smooth as window glass
00:29:30
but before a single Ferrari leaves the
00:29:32
paint shop each one has to pass a
00:29:35
rigorous final quality
00:29:40
check the slightest surface flaws in the
00:29:43
paint work are polished and
00:29:45
rechecked the paint depth is measured
00:29:48
ultrasonically to within a thousandth of
00:29:50
a millimeter to achieve an evenness of
00:29:52
finish and color
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if an imperfection can't be polished
00:30:02
away the body is sent back down the line
00:30:04
to be
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repainted robots finish the paint
00:30:10
job but a man will assemble the
00:30:18
engine each engine is built by one man
00:30:21
by
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hand putting together the 800 Precision
00:30:27
comp components is one of the most
00:30:29
skilled jobs at the Ferrari
00:30:38
factory the engine mechanic fits the
00:30:40
massive engine block with the Pistons
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that will turn explosive energy into
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propulsive
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[Music]
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Force then he puts the most critical
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piece of all into the engine block the
00:31:15
crankshaft the remainder of the engine
00:31:17
takes shape as the hours spin by
00:31:26
[Music]
00:31:32
a full day after work began the engine
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is
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finished from fire and raw metal this
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has been
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[Music]
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made the workers in Ferrari's paint shop
00:31:49
and engine works have done their
00:31:52
jobs now the Beauty and The Brute
00:31:55
strength are about to come together in
00:31:58
the ultimate Factory the 599 is
00:32:01
approaching the Finish
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[Music]
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Line Ferrari's Marinello Factory has
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given the newly designed 599 its
00:32:19
powerful heart and its beautiful
00:32:21
body two challenges met but that power
00:32:25
will have to be harnessed and that body
00:32:28
kept on the road if this air to a
00:32:30
Formula 1 racer is to perform on the
00:32:36
street meeting that challenge is the job
00:32:38
of the final assembly
00:32:43
line on regular assembly lines the car
00:32:46
being made never stops
00:32:49
moving a Ferrari stops 32 separate times
00:32:53
during its final assembly
00:32:58
at the top of the line the 599's biggest
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heaviest most crucial component finally
00:33:04
meets the body it will Propel at speeds
00:33:06
of over 200
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mph the V12 engine alone accounts for a
00:33:18
fifth of the 599's total
00:33:20
[Music]
00:33:22
weight the engine has to be bolted to
00:33:25
the chassis and wired up
00:33:29
the engine is
00:33:31
in but that's only half the
00:33:34
job they've still got to fit the 599's
00:33:37
transmission system made up of its
00:33:40
gearbox and massive drive shaft already
00:33:43
bolted
00:33:46
together the engine creates the power
00:33:49
620
00:33:51
horsepower all that power is transferred
00:33:53
by the drive shaft through the gearbox
00:33:57
to the 599's axles and
00:34:01
wheels the drive shaft is one of the
00:34:04
599's only components that's made of
00:34:06
steel it has to be to handle the power
00:34:09
surging through it from the
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[Applause]
00:34:19
[Music]
00:34:21
engine that power is controlled by the
00:34:23
599's racing bread gear system
00:34:31
this extraordinary power management
00:34:33
allows a Ferrari to accelerate through
00:34:35
all its gears and be moving at over 120
00:34:38
mph in 11
00:34:43
seconds but only if the factory workers
00:34:45
get it
00:34:50
right on the assembly line they finish
00:34:53
mounting the 599's engine and
00:34:55
transmission system
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[Music]
00:35:03
[Applause]
00:35:05
it's not enough for a sports car to go
00:35:07
fast it has to stay on the
00:35:10
road the suspension system and high
00:35:13
performance Vehicles like the 599 is far
00:35:16
more important than it is in a normal
00:35:21
car the 599 suspension uses
00:35:24
revolutionary shock absorbers developed
00:35:26
in the US
00:35:29
while conventional shock absorbers are
00:35:31
oil
00:35:33
filled the shock absorbers used in the
00:35:36
599 contain a magnetically Charged
00:35:40
fluid put simply it's like two opposing
00:35:43
magnets reading and reacting to every
00:35:46
bump in the road far more precisely
00:35:48
instantly than oil filled shock
00:35:54
absorbers installing the shock absorbers
00:35:56
is a critical and painstaking step in
00:35:59
the 599's final
00:36:03
assembly but Ferrari's mechanics Mount
00:36:06
this key component in under an
00:36:11
hour the Marinello Factory has given the
00:36:13
599 speed Beauty and handling for the
00:36:18
street but there's still one challenge
00:36:21
left to meet
00:36:25
luxury that's the job of the Coach Works
00:36:29
where the 599 gets its luxurious leather
00:36:33
interior each piece individually
00:36:45
handcrafted a highly trained team of
00:36:47
seamstresses draws on a centuries old
00:36:50
Italian tradition of fine leather
00:36:55
work I've been here years sewing I've
00:36:59
never learned enough there's always
00:37:01
something more to learn you need to be
00:37:03
very
00:37:07
precise specially selected cowhides are
00:37:10
transformed into the Ferrari's
00:37:12
upholstery dashboard and
00:37:15
[Music]
00:37:18
trim this is the Coachworks concession
00:37:20
to the 21st
00:37:22
century a computer controlled marking
00:37:24
system to avoid even minute imp
00:37:27
infections in the
00:37:29
leather Ferrari's customers are paying
00:37:32
handsomely for
00:37:35
Perfection a laser beam directed by the
00:37:37
computer cuts the sections
00:37:43
precisely Beyond this stage though it's
00:37:45
all human skill needle and thread
00:37:49
creating the unique Interiors in all the
00:37:50
colors of the rainbow and then
00:37:53
some if money's No Object Ferrari will
00:37:56
die the of your 599 any color you want
00:38:01
the same with the
00:38:04
stitching there are 12 different leather
00:38:06
colors that we can offer our clients for
00:38:08
the Interiors of their cars but on
00:38:11
demand we have an infinite range of
00:38:15
colors the leather is the same as that
00:38:17
used in some of Europe's finest leather
00:38:20
furniture Ferrari will even create
00:38:22
matching Luggage in the same
00:38:26
leather every everything is sewn
00:38:28
stretched and applied with the same
00:38:30
meticulous
00:38:32
care from this roll bar to these
00:38:37
dashboards it takes an average of 30
00:38:39
hours to cut sew and assemble a single
00:38:42
Ferrari's leather
00:38:46
interior it's Pride because I go out and
00:38:49
I see a Ferrari and I always stop and
00:38:51
look and I say hey maybe I sewed the
00:38:54
leather in that one
00:38:57
you want each time we finish a piece the
00:39:00
satisfaction is huge because it's a
00:39:02
totally manual job that creates
00:39:04
something from nothing and seeing that
00:39:07
something is one of the most prestigious
00:39:08
cars in the world is a great
00:39:10
satisfaction for
00:39:20
everyone the final pieces in this
00:39:22
quarter of a million doll jigsaw puzzle
00:39:24
are being put in place
00:39:30
the computer controlled instrumentation
00:39:32
inside a
00:39:33
599 is almost identical to that in the
00:39:36
cockpit of Ferrari's Formula 1
00:39:41
Racers the car's computer monitors all
00:39:44
its electronic
00:39:45
systems everything from the heaters in
00:39:47
the seats to the all important traction
00:39:50
control
00:39:52
system the traction control system
00:39:55
processes data coming from sensors on
00:39:56
the 5 99's Wheels then modifies the
00:39:59
car's handling to give the driver more
00:40:01
control in any
00:40:06
situation in wet conditions the system
00:40:09
slows the speed of gear changes to avoid
00:40:12
[Music]
00:40:15
skitting the 599's wheels are made of
00:40:18
aluminum alloy incredibly light and
00:40:21
incredibly
00:40:22
strong thanks to its racing Heritage the
00:40:25
599's tires have a footprint twice as
00:40:28
wide as a regular
00:40:30
cars more rubber on the road means
00:40:32
there's more grip for acceleration in
00:40:38
cornering the 599's windshield is
00:40:41
precision curved to maintain the car's
00:40:43
aerodynamic
00:40:45
[Music]
00:40:49
profile final checks are done on every
00:40:52
part of the
00:40:54
car and only then is the 599 declared
00:40:57
ready to receive its badge of
00:40:59
honor Ferrari's prancing
00:41:03
[Music]
00:41:07
horse but despite all the Care and all
00:41:11
the pride that has gone into its
00:41:13
construction the finished 599 must prove
00:41:16
itself Road
00:41:18
ready and in Ferrari's terms Road ready
00:41:21
is as close as you can get to race
00:41:25
ready this is where the 599 will face
00:41:28
its final
00:41:30
challenge the ultimate Factory's own
00:41:33
[Music]
00:41:45
racetrack Ferrari's workers have done
00:41:47
everything they can building the 599
00:41:50
from raw medal to finished sports
00:41:54
car but everyone has to pass a final
00:41:59
test this is Ferrari's racetrack at
00:42:03
Marinello it's the ultimate Factory's
00:42:06
ultimate Proving
00:42:09
Ground this is where Ferrari tests its
00:42:12
legendary Formula 1
00:42:14
[Music]
00:42:18
cars and this is where new 599s are
00:42:20
tested to see whether their performance
00:42:22
matches Ferrari's promises
00:42:25
[Music]
00:42:28
the company has 15 highly trained test
00:42:32
drivers each one uses his skill and
00:42:35
experience to judge whether the car
00:42:37
meets its performance benchmarks or
00:42:43
not high on the list of critical checks
00:42:46
is the 599's traction control
00:42:50
system tiny sensors mounted behind the
00:42:53
wheels feed data to the car's
00:42:55
computer adjust it handling from one
00:42:58
Split Second to the
00:43:04
next on the racetrack the test driver
00:43:08
first checks the 599 with its traction
00:43:10
control turned
00:43:13
[Applause]
00:43:17
off then it performs the same Maneuvers
00:43:20
with the traction control system engaged
00:43:24
[Applause]
00:43:27
for a normal driver this enhanced
00:43:29
handling could be the difference between
00:43:31
maintaining control or losing the
00:43:35
[Applause]
00:43:37
car but despite its Formula 1 pedigree
00:43:41
the 599's not bred for the RAC track so
00:43:44
in the Hills above the Ferrari factory
00:43:47
each one's put through a second road
00:43:53
test the 599 suspension and handling are
00:43:56
tested in a real world
00:44:00
environment so is its tenth of a second
00:44:02
gearshift
00:44:05
system each gear change means a
00:44:08
virtually instant shift in the power
00:44:09
reaching the
00:44:13
wheels if the gear system is even a
00:44:16
fraction of a second out the rear wheels
00:44:18
could lock sending the car into a
00:44:20
high-speed
00:44:22
slide that could be deadly on the open
00:44:24
road
00:44:27
the test drivers push the 599 to its
00:44:31
limits continually checking the computer
00:44:35
instrumentation constantly matching the
00:44:37
car's promised performance against its
00:44:39
actual
00:44:43
performance with its V12 heart pumping
00:44:46
as it never has
00:44:49
before and its aerodynamic body cutting
00:44:52
the Italian air these newest Ferraris
00:44:55
are now free of the fact Factory on
00:44:58
their way to owners who've waited 2
00:45:00
years for their
00:45:06
prize in all it's taken nearly two
00:45:09
months to create this Fusion of power
00:45:11
and
00:45:15
art each section each worker was part of
00:45:19
a team that brought the theano 599 into
00:45:23
existence
00:45:27
Day by Day part by
00:45:30
part process by process the ultimate
00:45:34
Factory