Ferrari Fxx Evoluzione 2005-2009
FXX Evoluzione
The Ferrari FXX program continued until 2009. The car continued to be improved under the Evolution kit, which continually adjusts specifics to create more power and quicker gear changes, and to lower the car's aerodynamic drag. The V12 engine generates 860 PS (630 kW; 850 hp) at 9500 rpm, giving a theoretical top speed of 400 kilometres per hour (250 mph), which could be reached in under 40 seconds. The car also accelerates from 0 to 100 kilometres per hour (0 to 62 mph) in 2.5 s. There were gearbox changes so that shift time should be reduced to 60 milliseconds per shift, a reduction of 20 milliseconds. The car also underwent aerodynamic changes and improvements to the traction control system. Statistically, this is Ferrari's fastest car ever released.
In 2015 one of the FXX Evoluzione cars was bought by a private collector in the UK who was able to get the factory to modify the car for legal road use. The car remains in a private collection in northwest England and is most easily identifiable externally from track-only FXX cars by the addition of rear lights and number plates. Other modifications include the addition of a handbrake, modification of the fuelling system, and a lifter mechanism to raise the car on demand from its normal extremely low position. This car still wears the number 55.
Top Gear appearance
A black unstriped Ferrari FXX, owned by Michael Schumacher, was exhibited on the BBC's Top Gear show on 21 June 2009. Driven by Schumacher dressed as The Stig, the car completed a lap of Top Gear's circuit in 1 minute and 10.7 seconds. The episode ended with the Ferrari FXX in first place on the board, beating the previous record (at that time) of 1 minute 17.1 seconds, which was held by a Gumpert Apollo S. However, the record was removed from the power board by the production team the following week, after they realized the lap was completed on slick racing tires, which are not road-legal and that the car itself could not clear speed bumps (all cars on the board must be legal for street use).