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599 owners can now pretend they’re Schuey with Ferrari’s new HGTE handling kit

Posted by: Dan Read, 17 July 2009

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Ferrari 599 HGTE handling pack

If you've got a Ferrari 599 knocking about in your garage, now's the time to dust it off and wing it to a dealership.

When you get there, ask them to bolt on an HGTE handling pack, which is now available as a retro-fit option.
 
The pack lowers the car by 10mm, stiffens the spring rates and anti-roll bars, gets you racier rims and tyres (for eight per cent more grip!) and, of course, recalibrates your magnetorheologically controlled dampers. Hmm. We've no idea what that means, but we're told it makes your car nicer to drive around corners.
 
If your 599 was made from 2008 onwards, you can get a power increase too, which quickens the already lightning-fast gearchanges to just 85 milliseconds. There's also a ruder exhaust on offer, which owners of older cars can choose.
 
The pack also tarts up the exterior, with a new grille and matt-finish prancing horse badges.
 
And the price for all this? £17,213 if your 599 was built before 2008; £19,703 if it was made after then.
 
Or you could save the cash and buy yourself a nearly new Golf GTi instead. It'd look good next to the 599 on the drive...

See Michael Schumacher in the 599 HGTE

Read Paul Horrell's first drive of the 599 HGTE

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The Golf GTI is a good idea. The package, useless. If I'd have too much money, I'd have to spend it on a wine cellar and stay home.

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If I had that much money, I'd buy both, the wine cellar and the handling pack. It's probably unnoticeable on the road, but who wouldn't go track day with a Ferrari?

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If I had that much money, I'd buy both, the wine cellar and the handling pack. It's probably unnoticeable on the road, but who wouldn't go track day with a Ferrari?

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Improvements to an already awesome car; if you can afford the car, you really should get the package as well. No banana yellow though thank-you-very-much.

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I agree Wotski. Ferrari 599 with an upgrade pack would make it sublime. Choose Rossa Corsa paint (Red) with a track day specialised package and it'll be an amazing car.

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