Ferrari

At the 2007 North American International Auto Show today, Ferrari announced that it ended 2006 with its fourteenth straight annual sales increase, and that it will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a worldwide event for Ferrari owners and their cars.

Ferrari sold 5,700 units worldwide in 2006 and 1,635 in North America. That’s a 5.5 percent increase over 2005 sales, according to M. Toscan Bennett, director of public relations and communications for Ferrari North America. With 30 percent of its worldwide sales taking place here, North America is the marque’s most important market.

Ferrari has revealed details of the car it hopes will return it to world title glory in 2007.

The team released technical specifications of its new challenger, designated the F2007, at a behind-closed-doors launch at Fiorano.

Photographers were barred from the event but Ferrari published its own pictures of the car, the fifty-third grand prix single-seater built by the fabled Italian marque.