FERRARI CALIFORNIA – Walkaround 2014 HQ

Here another video from a new great Official Ferrari Meeting in the south Italy this year at its 1th edition. Organized by “SCUDERIA FERRARI BARI”, the greatest Ferrari Club of Puglia in the wonderful TAVOLIERE DELLE PUGLIE. Matera will be the “CAPITALE EUROPEA DELLA CULTURA” (EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE) 2019.
This Ferrari Club organize a lot of events which attract the partecipation of over 30 teams from each parts of Italy. This year 31 Ferraris and other supercars from Basilicata, Puglia, Campania, Sicily, Lazio and Calabria atteded at the festival, so be sure not to miss any of the videos I’ve uploaded in the appropriate playlist.
The event was named FERRARI TRA I SASSI and tries to combine passion and culture visiting the suggestive locations of MATERA, the second town of Lucania and also known as “LA CITTA’ SOTTERRANEA” (the Subterranean City), for its historical center called “Sassi”, considered World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1993, along with the Park of the Rupestrian Churches. The Sassi originate from a prehistoric settlement, and are suspected to be some of the first human settlements in Italy. The Sassi are houses dug into the calcareous rock, with many of these “houses” that are really caverns, and the streets in some parts of the Sassi often are located on the rooftops of other houses. The ancient town grew in height on one slope of the ravine created by a river that is now a small stream. The ravine is known locally as LA GRAVINA.
The event was enrich still more by real F1 car (Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari F2004) with wich 33 Fans’s teams could compete in an authentic PIT-STOP Challange to win a special prize, by a Ferrari WRAPPING EXHIBITION with an original Ferrari 348 TB wrapped with a 3D “Black carbon” roof like another supercar present at the show, the Ferrari 599 GTB FIORANO HGTE Special Edition built for Tony Camassa, a legend of FERRARI CHALLENGE CHAMPIONSHIP, who was the star of the show.

In this video a stunning black Ferrari California with italian driving licence plate takes part at the event giving me the possibility to film it in each detail like rims, engine, interior, cavallino logo and to record its noisy start-up and its lovely sound while driving.

The Ferrari California is a grand touring sports car produced by the Maranello’s Prancing Horse since 2008. The car is a two-door 2+2 with a retractable hard top which transforms the California from a coupé into a spider in a mere 14 seconds.
This wonderful supercar is powered by a 4,3 litre V8 engine with gasoline direct injection which develops 460 hp and a torque of 485 Nm, enough to push the California to 0-100 Km/h in only 3,9 seconds for a top speed of over 310 Km/h.
The Ferrari California inherits many technologies from its sisters Ferrari F430 and Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano like the “Manettino” for the drive settings and the F1 Launch Control, but it’s also equipped by many news which will be used on the future new Ferrari models. In fact, the California is:
– The first Ferrari featured with a 7-speed dual-clutch trasmission;
– The first Ferrari mounting a V8 front engine;
– The first Ferrari with a retractable metal roof;
– The first Ferrari with direct petrol injection.

At the 2012 Geneva Motor Show Ferrari presented an upgrade of the supercar, named Ferrari California 30 to recall the +30 hp and the -30 Kg of this restyling, that make the car reach the 100 Km/h in 3,8 seconds.
In 2013 was introduced a new version named Ferrari California 30 Handling Speciale (or California HS) with special rims and silver colored grilles and roof.
At the 2014 Geneva Motor Show was unveiled a new edition of California named Ferrari California T, where the “T” standing for Turbo. This updated Ferrari California is featured by an inedited V8 3.8 litre twin turbo engine, evolution of Maserati Quattroporte’s one, which can develops 560 hp (+80 hp of a normal California) and an incredible torque of 755 Nm (+50% of a normal California).
This engineering jewel allows the Ferrari California T to reach the 100 km/h in only 3,6 seconds, the same time of a Ferrari Enzo, for a top speed of 316 Km/h (+4 Km/h faster than the old model).
Thanks to its incredible design, inspired to past models like the Ferrari 250 Testarossa, by Pininfarina made the Ferrari California one of the best selling Ferraris ever with a daily production of 27 cars (6.000 per year) for a current balance of over 8000 pieces sold.

Complete walk around with each detail like interior, wheels, engine, logo and lights, driving, LOUD starting-up and really noisy exhaust rev sound.

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RECORDED IN SPRING 2014: April, 27th 2014