Ferrari's GTC handling package,

a new option on the 575M Maranello (the base price is $225,090 for models with the six-speed manual transmission, $235,539 with the F1 paddle-shift

the GTC package, which is named for Ferrari's 575 GTC Le Mans-spec competition racing car, does provide some very nice options, most notably ceramic composite material (CCM) brake discs from Brembo. The equipment also includes nineteen-inch wheels with Pirelli P Zero Corsa competition rubber, a sport exhaust, and a firmer suspension setup (consisting of springs that are 35 percent stiffer in front and 15 percent stiffer at the rear, plus a 73-percent-stiffer rear antiroll bar) that had been offered heretofore as a $3600 "Fiorano" package.

Ferrari ceramic brakes aren't noisy, a claim supported on the road and at Fiorano, where the brakes performed quietly, flawlessly. The GTC brakes allow the 575M Maranello to be driven-and stopped-hard all day long without "fading, thermal deformation, or disc wear" and with "wet efficiency." Thanks go to a special brake cooling system, six-piston calipers in front, four-piston calipers in rear, and lightweight, ceramic composite discs with diameters of 15.7 inches in front and 14.2 at the rear and with thicknesses of nearly an inch and a half.