RE: Ferrari 488 GTB: Time For Tea?
Friday 29th May 2015
Seems Ferrari is being a little coy about that too, the video big on jump cuts, flashy edits and pounding soundtracks with only snippets of twin-turbo V8. Why so shy - it's not like they don't have previous. [That's this week's 288 GTO mention covered then - Ed.]
Ferrari 488 GTB: Time For Tea?
Twin-turbo Ferrari put through its paces ... does it sound any good though?
Expect a lot more noise about the new Ferrari 488 GTB very soon. For now though we'll have to muse upon the official video for the car and try and decipher if the noise that currently exists is enough to prickle our neck hairs the way its normally aspirated predecessors have.
Appetite whetted by the final cut? There's a making of too, complete with even more flashy editing and even less engine sound. That blacked out ML camera car with the big boom on it looks cool though.
Ferrari 488 GTB official promo
Ferrari 488 GTB official promo (making of)
Discussion
Tacky video, tacky manufacturer (Ferrari world, coming to a tacky touristy part of Spain soon )
No doubt it will appeal to hooded men with hooded birds on their shoulders so they can impress the expensive Hookers sitting alongside them as they drive through the desert at 200mph (until, as usual they screw up & crash on perfectly straight bit of empty road)
Cynical ? Moi
I imagine it will help the value of the 458 Speziale go even more ballistic than some of Porsches products.
No doubt it will appeal to hooded men with hooded birds on their shoulders so they can impress the expensive Hookers sitting alongside them as they drive through the desert at 200mph (until, as usual they screw up & crash on perfectly straight bit of empty road)
Cynical ? Moi
I imagine it will help the value of the 458 Speziale go even more ballistic than some of Porsches products.
the other me said:
Tacky video, tacky manufacturer (Ferrari world, coming to a tacky touristy part of Spain soon )
No doubt it will appeal to hooded men with hooded birds on their shoulders so they can impress the expensive Hookers sitting alongside them as they drive through the desert at 200mph (until, as usual they screw up & crash on perfectly straight bit of empty road)
Cynical ? Moi
I imagine it will help the value of the 458 Speziale go even more ballistic than some of Porsches products.
Lol - go easy on those meds son No doubt it will appeal to hooded men with hooded birds on their shoulders so they can impress the expensive Hookers sitting alongside them as they drive through the desert at 200mph (until, as usual they screw up & crash on perfectly straight bit of empty road)
Cynical ? Moi
I imagine it will help the value of the 458 Speziale go even more ballistic than some of Porsches products.
458 speciale beat out the 650s in the recent shootout.
the other me said:
Tacky video, tacky manufacturer (Ferrari world, coming to a tacky touristy part of Spain soon )
No doubt it will appeal to hooded men with hooded birds on their shoulders so they can impress the expensive Hookers sitting alongside them as they drive through the desert at 200mph (until, as usual they screw up & crash on perfectly straight bit of empty road)
Cynical ? Moi
I imagine it will help the value of the 458 Speziale go even more ballistic than some of Porsches products.
Lol - go easy on those meds son No doubt it will appeal to hooded men with hooded birds on their shoulders so they can impress the expensive Hookers sitting alongside them as they drive through the desert at 200mph (until, as usual they screw up & crash on perfectly straight bit of empty road)
Cynical ? Moi
I imagine it will help the value of the 458 Speziale go even more ballistic than some of Porsches products.
458 speciale beat out the 650s in the recent shootout.
Ha Ha, OK , bottle is pretty much finished now, so , . . . . as a "Turbo" driver I shouldn't criticise, but, I think Ferrari "sold its hole" (not soul ) via merchandising/Ferrariworld etc ) &, to answer the question PH posed, no way will this car sound so good as the 458.
Go buy a 458 /Porsche 991 gt3 if you can, won't be the same again (at least not for a while ). . .turbos can sound good too though
) via merchandising/Ferrariworld etc ) &, to answer the question PH posed, no way will this car sound so good as the 458.Go buy a 458 /Porsche 991 gt3 if you can, won't be the same again (at least not for a while ). . .turbos can sound good too though
Edited by the other me on Friday 29th May 23:38
Edited by the other me on Friday 29th May 23:39
Like the screaming, naturally aspirated 458, the 488 uses an engine with a flat-plane crankshaft that should help it retain the “seductive soundtrack” that Ferrari promises. The 458 lacks artificial aspiration, but the Maranello carmaker claims that the new car’s twin-turbocharged engine has “zero turbo lag.” The twin-scroll turbos themselves use premium componentry such as shafts mounted on ball bearings and compressor wheels hewn from a low-density alloy of titanium and aluminum. Ferrari even trumpets “a special seal on the turbine housing [that] ensures a minimum gap between it and the compressor wheel for maximum efficiency.
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Copied and pasted from some site..
The only footage I've seen so far suggests that the up changes are happening at about 4,000 rpm, or they're happening at the red line, which now sounds like 4,000 rpm. We can only wait until someone thrashes it properly to find out which. I find myself tearing my hair out when I watch videos of the BMW M4, which now sounds like it's at 4,000 rpm when it's actually at the red line. I can only hope the Ferrari 488 hasn't succumbed to the same aural mediocrity. Lamborghini probably hope the opposite as it could have an interesting effect on Huracan sales if the 488's voice does turn out to be too politically correct.
fullleather said:
Like the screaming, naturally aspirated 458, the 488 uses an engine with a flat-plane crankshaft that should help it retain the “seductive soundtrack” that Ferrari promises. The 458 lacks artificial aspiration, but the Maranello carmaker claims that the new car’s twin-turbocharged engine has “zero turbo lag.” The twin-scroll turbos themselves use premium componentry such as shafts mounted on ball bearings and compressor wheels hewn from a low-density alloy of titanium and aluminum. Ferrari even trumpets “a special seal on the turbine housing [that] ensures a minimum gap between it and the compressor wheel for maximum efficiency.
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They may be able to pretty much minimise turbo lag but they'll never be able to lose it completely without using other systems. Besides you'll still hear part of the turbo noise I'm sure. Equal length pipes apparently help with the new exhaust too.Copied and pasted from some site..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdMe5o3Qgx0 Although not gunning it here is a 488 and 488 spider in the wild...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6jCYgf-_Ks a drift but the engine sounds muted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja4sI49vu3s This is on fiorano so you'll probably hear the turbo whoosh at the end if you turn the volume up a bit
- Helps when you see unedited videos....Id cling on to the 458 until the 488 replacement comes out personally, especially if you have a Speciale!
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