Ferrari 599 HTGE China Limited Edition

The Ferrari 599 HTGE China Limited Edition

Ferrari has created the 599 HTGE China Limited Edition – a 599 customised by artist Lu Hao – with just 12 models being built.

It would have been unthinkable even a few short years ago that anyone in China would be able – or allowed – to buy as decadent a symbol of Western Imperialism as a Ferrari. Personal wealth didn’t exist in the terms we understand in the West, despite China’s history as being a nation of traders and entrepreneurs before the People’s Revolution.

But time they are a changin’ (thank you Mr D.), and China has become a big market for purveyors of luxury goods, none more so than Ferrari. So sticking together a Limited Edition Ferrari for the Chinese market is an eminently sensible move for Ferrari, even if the dozen models of the China Limited Edition will be a mere drop in the ocean in a country which boasts a population of 1.3 billion and still rising.

So it seems a reasonable bet that Ferrari will have no trouble selling the China 599 to the extremely wealthy who now sit at the top of China’s financial pecking order. The China Edition has been kitted out with Ferrari’s HTGE handling pack and painted in Rosso Fuoco with a grey roof – a look that mimics the 599XX. The China Edition has also had input from Chinese artist Lu Hao, who customised the luggage in the 599 with a map of the Silk Route (a great reminder of China’s trading past), had the starter button glow in a nice shade of Jade Green and added Chinese symbols instead of numerals to the Tacho.

The Sleeping Dragon rises.