FERRARI GTO

Ferrari GTO

Vandenbrink Design BV of The Netherlands is an automotive design company unveils their special coachbuilt GTO. The company was founded in 2006 by Michiel van den Brink and Robert Koumans which focus on special design and coachbuilding for highly exclusive sportscars.The hand-made supercar will be crafted by Dutchman Alwin Hietbrink, who is known in restoration and rebuilding projects of classic Italian iconic sportscars such as the genuine Ferrari 250 GTO.

Meanwhile the interior/upholstery design is by the Dutch craftsman Henk van Lith, who is specilalist in the making of high quality Italian interiors.The GTO is technically based on the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano platform and there are two versions available. The first version is the 599 GTO, 6-liter V12 engine that produces 650 hp and maximum torque of 630 Nm. The second version is the 6.3-liter V12 which produces 750 hp and maximum torque of 680 Nm.There will be 5 GTO’s to be built for customers. The production will start in 2008 and the first delivery will only be on 2009.The price of a full-options 630 GTO is €993,000 (excluding the base 599 GTB Fiorano and taxes).

Ferrari GTO video

Like many car-enthusiast kids in the 1980s, my bedroom walls were slathered with posters of exotica like Ferrari’s fabulous 288 GTO. So it was with great pleasure that I was able to see this former object of car lust in the flesh, so to speak, when I went down to Norwalk, Connecticut, yesterday to photograph Chuck Schoendorf’s GTO for an upcoming issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car magazine. His car, one of roughly 50 gray-market GTOs here in the States out of the 272 built from 1984-1986, is immaculate, with a throaty, bellowing exhaust rasp to die for, although a problematic slave cylinder precluded my getting behind the wheel. Oh well, that dream may have to wait another 20 years…