The 599 GTB holds the excellence of being the final V-12-powered Ferrari offered with a guide transmission. Driving one is a privilege few folks will ever expertise. This onboard video will get you shut. 

The Tedward YouTube channel was fortunate sufficient to get a while behind the wheel of a guide 599 GTB, filming the whole drive from the angle of the motive force. After a short walk-around, we’re handled to 10 straight minutes of guide V-12 greatness.

Within the mid to late 2000s, stick shifts weren’t precisely fashionable with the supercar-buying crowd. Consequently, Ferrari constructed simply over 20 guide 599s earlier than manufacturing ended. The automobile on this video is just not a kind of unique stick-shift examples, however one which’s been handled to a guide conversion. 

The conversion consists of metallic shift gates, such as you’d get from the manufacturing unit. And because of Tedward, we are able to hear the stunning clacking that comes together with every shift. More often than not, although, the cabin is dominated by the V-12’s sound. This explicit automobile is making round 700 horsepower because of a tune borrowed from the extra hardcore 599 GTO and a extra free-flowing exhaust. And it sounds wonderful.

In case you have a couple of minutes, we extremely advocate turning your sound up and listening.