Ferrari’s CEO Sergio Marchionne once said that a Ferrari without an internal combustion engine would be “an obscene concept”. An American friend of a friend of MotorPunk thinks he knows better. His story starts with a fire-damaged 1978 Ferrari 308GTS. This one, in fact; Trim bits for classic Ferraris are painfully expensive. So our colonial […]
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Our friends at EV Performance tossed a ringer into Pistonheads.com UK recently and it elicited quiet a discussion among the UK automotive chaps! What a great public engagement on their Facebook page here which really shows the polarizing nature of the automotive paradigm swing. Check out the original Article here. So is a 1980
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Spring is here and we’re roofless in a Seventies Ferrari, tearing up a mountain road just north of San Diego in the warm sunshine. The car? A Magnum Pi-spec red 308 GTS – most petrolheads’ idea of heaven. The soundtrack? A mixtape of nothing but pure rock ‘n’ roll from the era, and that booming V8 sountrack,
ELECTRIC CARS HAVE a lot of promise. They’re quick, quiet, and clean, but Ferrari CEO Sergio Marchionne isn’t convinced. “It’s an almost obscene concept,” he told journalists at the 2016 Geneva Auto Show. If that wasn’t clear enough, he added “you’d have to shoot me first.” But you can’t stop progress, and Electric GT has taken matters into its
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Despite the increasing popularity of Tesla, and despite the fact that even luxury automakers like BMW and Porsche have warmed up to the idea of EVs, and many people now use electric cars and even get lithium battery generator for charging the cars. Ferrari remains principally opposed to the idea. Not too long ago, Ferrari Chairman Sergio Marchionne
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“With nearly double the torque of the original engine, the electric motors are no contest for even the finest tuned Weber carburetors,” said Hutchison. “Technology changes, and we are now in a time when an electric SUV is faster than a Ferrari sports car” Justin Herrmann of Strategic Racing Designs also assisted on the project.
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CarScoops features electric Ferrari transformation and recycling effort. Despite being a Ferrari robbed of its soundtrack, this build is a prime example of recycling done right. And if you have second thoughts on it, just remind yourself that this beautiful car would otherwise be crashed or even sit in a graveyard forever alone and abandoned. See
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It might be some time before we see a fully electric Ferrari from the folks in Maranello, but an enterprising group of tinkerers from an outfit called Electric GT have done just that. The company has taken a scorched ’78 Ferrari 308 GTS (shout out to all the Magnum PI fans) and turned it into
It’s been a big week over here at Electric GT! The Electric Ferrari has been getting some (well-deserved) attention from the press, and we love that AutoBlog thinks that the 308 EV would make Magnum PI proud. They took the Ferrari out for a spin on Translogic awhile back, for a VR ride, which was
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A San Diego-based EV conversion company salvaged a charred Ferrari (they had many to choose from) by turning it into what the company claims is the first fully electric Ferrari, a 415-horsepower electric tire-crusher. It’s glorious, if a little blasphemous. A few months back, Ferrari Boss Sergio Marchionne said the idea of an electric Ferrari was an
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