Ok, here she is! My first Ferrari
01-09-2008, 11:35 PM
#17
Race Director
When you drive with the top down, please be careful. Urban legend has it that many red Ferrari drivers suffer major injuries from chicks falling out of the sky into their passenger seat.
Exceptional ride. Enjoy in great health.
CP
01-09-2008, 11:48 PM
#21
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Man, you guys sure respond quick! I will have a more detail report after I get more seat time. But... Again this is a damn Ferrari, which means I can't drive it. LOL! My budget is 1k miles/year.
The Tubi that came with the car is a Tubi NGT, something like that, supposely a louder, race version of the regular Tubi. Well, it sounds good at times, but pops and back fired when I left off the throttle, the muffler is so small, it is smaller than one 993 muffler. So I need to do something about that there.
The manual transmission is worse than the 993! very long throw, and if I floored the car to accelerate it doesn't really want to shift fast, always end up grinding the gears a little. I know this is typical of the old school Ferrari box, I think they fixed it with the newer F430.
Car handles like a dream, very much like my 996 C4. But at higher speed it doesn't feel as nuetral, car feels a little nervous, could be because this is my first day with the car or could be because this is a convertible.
So my conclusion.... Porsches are great cars! In every aspect they operate, perform just as good and better as the Ferrari. Well, the 360 does have pretty good acceleration once you get the RPM up above 4k rpm. Redline is at 8.5k. But the Porsches are easy to drive, handles well. The Ferrari.... well, she is very pretty... Sounds absolutely amazing.... Brakes works as well as the Porsche's brembo.... And lots of camera phone from everyone. LOL!
Actually not too many lookers in LA, I guess too many of them around.
So for the money it is not worth it! But to complete a childhood dream of owning a Ferrari, yes it was.
The Tubi that came with the car is a Tubi NGT, something like that, supposely a louder, race version of the regular Tubi. Well, it sounds good at times, but pops and back fired when I left off the throttle, the muffler is so small, it is smaller than one 993 muffler. So I need to do something about that there.
The manual transmission is worse than the 993! very long throw, and if I floored the car to accelerate it doesn't really want to shift fast, always end up grinding the gears a little. I know this is typical of the old school Ferrari box, I think they fixed it with the newer F430.
Car handles like a dream, very much like my 996 C4. But at higher speed it doesn't feel as nuetral, car feels a little nervous, could be because this is my first day with the car or could be because this is a convertible.
So my conclusion.... Porsches are great cars! In every aspect they operate, perform just as good and better as the Ferrari. Well, the 360 does have pretty good acceleration once you get the RPM up above 4k rpm. Redline is at 8.5k. But the Porsches are easy to drive, handles well. The Ferrari.... well, she is very pretty... Sounds absolutely amazing.... Brakes works as well as the Porsche's brembo.... And lots of camera phone from everyone. LOL!
Actually not too many lookers in LA, I guess too many of them around.
So for the money it is not worth it! But to complete a childhood dream of owning a Ferrari, yes it was.
01-10-2008, 12:09 AM
#28
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Please tell us more about the white Subaru STi in the background.
j/k..sweet!
j/k..sweet!
