Berlin, 22nd November 2006

Readers of trade journal Auto Zeitung voted three Ferraris on to the winners' podium for this year's annual Auto Trophy.

In the 'imported' category for super sports cars, the Ferrari F430 beat the Lamborghini Gallardo to first place with 13.7% of the votes compared with 12.3%. The Ferrari F430 celebrated its world premiere at the Paris Motor Show in 2004. It is the first model from the new generation of eight-cylinder Ferrari sports cars, and has already won the Auto Trophy before, in last year's poll. Another Ferrari model made it to the podium in its very first year: the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano came third in the imported super sports car category with 9.5% of the votes. The new 12-cylinder Ferrari model was first presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 2006. The first models made their first appearance on German roads in the summer.


The Ferrari F430 Spider repeated its outstanding victory in the vote for best imported convertible. With 13.5% of the votes it came out on top ahead of the Aston Martin DB9 Volante (12.7%) and the Lamborghini Gallardo Spider (8.9%) to win the coveted trophy.

This was the 19th time that Auto Zeitung held the competition. This year a total of 93.873 readers took part in the poll. Roberto Fedeli, Technical Director of Ferrari S.p.A., accepted the awards at the formal award ceremony, which took place yesterday evening at the Meilenwerk venue in Berlin.