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1. If you want a real driving machine thats green, buy porsche.

The Gt2 gets 22.6mpg on the NEDC and has a 0-100km of 3.7. and cO2 emissions of 298 g/km.

360 g/km is in no ways an achievement. Check out other cars/supercars cO2 emissions here http://www.carpages.co.uk/co2/co2-coupe-226-to-999-2.asp

Posted at 6:15PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Andrew Tanasescu

2. Andrew, Watch AutoblogGreen for a follow up article very soon ;D

Posted at 6:18PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Lascelles Linton

3. Ethical shmethical. . . From where I sit, the Tesla simply looks like a better sports car. It looks like more fun than a Ferrari.

Posted at 7:18PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Tony Belding

4. Ferrari will have a public debut of their first hybrid car sometime in late 2008 or early 2009.

This is because 2009 is the year that Formula 1 will begin allowing energy recovery systems, and with engine development frozen by the FIA, the only way to get more power is via hybridization.

Will such a system ever be included in customer cars is of course a different matter. Never is an awfully long time...

Posted at 7:29PM on Dec 1st 2007 by rob

5. Ferrari should never make an electric car, their fans won't buy them. A Hybird may be palatable.

Posted at 7:43PM on Dec 1st 2007 by throwback

6. Ferrari's vision often exceeds their customer's immediate expectations. That's why they are where they are today.

Following their F1 ethos, it would be only natural for Ferrari to employ all means possible to make their cars faster, lighter, more efficient, and, most of all, a more profound driving experience.

Posted at 9:38PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Patrik K

7. Sorry Andrew but 298g/km can't in any way be described as "green". Less polluting than many other sports cars, yes, but it's emissions are more than 3 times those of the lowest carbon car available on the market.

I don't see how Ferrari will be able to continue manufacturing under the proposed European regulations without going electric and I also don't see why many of their customers wouldn't buy an electric Ferrari. It wouldn't have the V12 sound but I'm sure the poor little dears would survive somehow without it.

If they could get an electric Ferrari running at 300Wh/mile or less then that would be pretty green.

Posted at 7:06AM on Dec 2nd 2007 by Scatter

8. CEO confirms Ferrari will make a hybrid:

Check this out, an exclusive interview of the German automotive bi-weekly automotorundsport with Amedeo Felisa, MD of Ferrari:

http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/news/wirtschaft_-_handel/hxcms_article_508806_13987.hbs

"We will make a hybrid... all new cars have to have ncreased performance, be smaller, lighter, more usable in everyday life and consume less fuel than their precedessors... the way to achieve this [for the Enzo successor] is with a supercharged V8... " now I don't believe they will stop producing V12s, but hybrids are on the menu.

Posted at 8:19AM on Dec 5th 2007 by Patrik K

9. Patrik K, THANKS! Writing about it now and I will credit you as tipster!

Posted at 8:27AM on Dec 5th 2007 by Lascelles Linton