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TensionReliever; If a 515-hp V12 won't clear your head, you're not using one of them very well.(Ferrari's 575M Maranello)

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| May 06, 2002 | Wilson, Kevin A. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

You are forgiven a certain anxious tension, even self-consciousness. Visiting Ferrari's Fiorano test track, you have been invited to have a go in the latest hot Italian number, the 575M Maranello, one of about 700 of these quarter-million-dollar cars that will be built in a year.

That's M as in modificata, or modified. At Toyota, they'd call this a mid-term freshening on the 550 Maranello. The aim is to keep the big, Corvette-sized, front-engine, 3815-pound Ferrari competitive with a flood of fresh heavyweight challengers that include, most prominently, the Aston Martin Vanquish and Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, with a polite nod in the direction of the 500-hp Dodge ...

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