Got a spare $750,000 for this high-speed beauty?

Ferrari 599 GTO. Photo / Supplied

It's the fastest street-legal car Ferrari has built, a limited-edition 6-litre V12 flyer with a top speed of 335km/h - and a likely price tag of around $750,000 when it lands in New Zealand early next year.

"A number of Ferrari's most valued Australian and New Zealand clients have already expressed interest in the 599 GTO," says Ferrari's Downunder public affairs manager Edward Rowe. Pictures and details about the car were kept under lock and key at Ferrari's HQ in Italy until 24 hours ago. It will make its global debut at the Beijing motor show later this month before going on sale in Europe later in the year.

It is regarded as a road-going version of the 599XX, the experimental track car that set all sorts of go-fast records during development in Italy. Production will be limited to 599 examples.

Ferrari says its engineers borrowed from the company's Formula One technology to blend high-end electronics with handling that "results in an almost complete absence of understeer and a truly communicative chassis."

Apart from new springs and a stiffer rear anti-roll bar, the car also gets a second-generation magnetically controlled suspension system.

It works in tandem with the car's dynamic control unit and the latest F1-Trac traction control. Says Ferrari: "This makes the car extremely responsive to driver inputs - thanks in part to the adoption of a very direct steering ratio."

It is also "very stable under braking, sharper on turn-in, more precise in cornering and quicker out of corners."

Also appearing for the first time on a Ferrari road car are second-generation carbon-ceramic brakes, which bring the car to a stop from 100km/h in a claimed 32.5m.

New aerodynamic touches include the wheel doughnuts, which increase aerodynamic efficiency as well as improved brake cooling.

There's a different tyre set-up on the 20-inch rims. The front tyres are wider than in the past for greater roadholding.

The driver-car interface is also new - Virtual Race Engineer (VRE) provides the driver with real-time information on performance.

The 599 GTO weighs in at 1495kg, thanks in part to a mix of aluminium and carbon fibre in the body. The V12 engine complies with Euro5 emissions requirements.

It punches out 500kW at 8250rpm and 620Nm at 6500rpm and drives the rear wheels via a six-speed paddle-shift gearbox. Ferrari claims a zero to 100km/h sprint time of 3.3 seconds.

The 599 wears the GTO moniker as a tribute to two special Ferraris: "The 1962 250 GTO, which dominated GT racing in the 1960s and is now a highly prized collector's car, and the 1984 GTO, which basically invented the entire modern supercar genre."