RE: Ferrari 512TR: PH Carpool

[storminnorman]

I would take the Testarossa for looks, but yeah it's a v12 ferrari whichever way you look at it. Splendid example!

[Howrare]

Funny, I saw my first ever one parked up only yesterday. Thought it was a 348 at first and was more than a little surprised when it turned out to be a 512tr. Very very nice OP.

[Chris Harris]

Hugely regret selling mine. Ticks all the boxes: fast, challenging, (to my eyes) great looking, not silly money (yet).

Think I need another in my life.

[JREwing]

I think I have the original Autocar test somewhere.
I'd love one. You didn't consider a white one?

ETA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiTCTsTyjdw

I was very jealous of Crockett.....

Edited by JREwing on Monday 20th May 18:05

[J4CKO]

MC Bodge said:

Great car!

GreigM said:

Let's be straight; it's not a good drive by today's standards, and even with 428hp on tap I'm sure it could be beaten down any B-road by a modern warm hatch

A similar thing was suggested back in the day too! I had this magazine, although I was too young to drive at the time:





Nowadays I have the licence, but not the cash, to drive such a car.

Edited by MC Bodge on Monday 20th May 14:19

Not sure it would get beaten by any hatch if the going is anything like straight, it still does a ton in just over 11 seconds, there would be a nice noise, then it would disappear, 428 bhp is still 428 bhp, would even destroy every current diesel BMW , I suspect in the right hands, I.e. someone not scared of death, wrecking it or being arrested that it can still be flung about, would take a rich and talented nutcase to do that though.

[Amirhussain]

Carnnoisseur said:

Beyond words..................Lush!

Oufft, sounds amazing too.

[Mavican]

MidnightRunner said:

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Brilliant game!! I used to love going to airports just to play this as a child.

Normally when I see Ferrari I see Italy....but the Testarossa is very much a 1980s California adult entertainment industry entrepreneur's car.

Anyone play Need for Speed on the Playstation or Saturn? Think I've still for the Saturn game around somewhere.

I still like the sight of these, had one on my wall along with the Diablo.

[Owlwood]

Very very nice. Top Carpool.

[BigMacDaddy]

A piece of automotive art - good choice OP

[Rouleur]

BS75 said:

Dr Z said:

I swear the engine in this is a 180 degree Vee rather than the horizontally opposed design that the term 'flat-12' implies? If the former, I'm sorry it's a V12 as far as I'm concerned. People stop propagating this myth of a Flat-12! I know it seems romantic to say Flat-12, but really, get it right.

Flat-12 implies a 180degree Vee. The horizontally opposed design you are drawing comparisons with is a boxer engine.

A V12 is an angled flat-12


Wonderful car anyway, far more desirable to me than any Ferrari made since. My cousin has one and TBH according to him the running cost added up to scarey money over a period of years...

[ferrisbueller]

Love it. So much want and surely about to get silly price wise as people catch on to the fact that this has all of the Testarossa's presence without many of its weaknesses.

47 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMfbMoJnY5g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiYQeUOGkN0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5TgFaNqpjA

Fabulous/

[Gorbyrev]

GreigM said:

jamespink said:

Not clear here... If the bores run almost opposite each other and are horizontal, then its a flat 12 or boxer (like a BMW bike twin is a boxer). What the heck is a 180 degree V???

While a boxer is generally flat, it doesn't follow that a flat engine is a boxer.

Flat 12:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEgXUt1PSgg

Boxer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDYHyGNFR5Y

Thanks for that. Every day is a school day!

[SonnyM]

J4CKO said:

MC Bodge said:

Great car!

GreigM said:

Let's be straight; it's not a good drive by today's standards, and even with 428hp on tap I'm sure it could be beaten down any B-road by a modern warm hatch

A similar thing was suggested back in the day too! I had this magazine, although I was too young to drive at the time:





Nowadays I have the licence, but not the cash, to drive such a car.

Edited by MC Bodge on Monday 20th May 14:19

Not sure it would get beaten by any hatch if the going is anything like straight, it still does a ton in just over 11 seconds, there would be a nice noise, then it would disappear, 428 bhp is still 428 bhp, would even destroy every current diesel BMW , I suspect in the right hands, I.e. someone not scared of death, wrecking it or being arrested that it can still be flung about, would take a rich and talented nutcase to do that though.

For reference this is how to drive a Testarossa properly:

http://youtu.be/9gBRvQtdMiA

[belleair302]

And originally that car was black.....in Miami???

[MC Bodge]

J4CKO said:

MC Bodge said:

Great car!

GreigM said:

Let's be straight; it's not a good drive by today's standards, and even with 428hp on tap I'm sure it could be beaten down any B-road by a modern warm hatch

A similar thing was suggested back in the day too! I had this magazine, although I was too young to drive at the time:





Nowadays I have the licence, but not the cash, to drive such a car.

Edited by MC Bodge on Monday 20th May 14:19

Not sure it would get beaten by any hatch if the going is anything like straight, it still does a ton in just over 11 seconds, there would be a nice noise, then it would disappear, 428 bhp is still 428 bhp, would even destroy every current diesel BMW , I suspect in the right hands, I.e. someone not scared of death, wrecking it or being arrested that it can still be flung about, would take a rich and talented nutcase to do that though.

Casting my mind back 20-odd years, I think the point was that it was so low, wide, hard and not suited to winding, rural B-roads that the hot hatches would have the advantage.

[Alfa159Ti]

Beautiful car with so much presence. Really love the eighties and nineties Ferrari designs.

Just as you say, there is huge reward in coaxing a fiesty and unforgiving car down a good road at pace.

Whilst not in the same league, I have had similar drives on fast country roads in a highly modified MR2 Turbo and Maserati GT4200. Both cars needed to be constantly treated with respect as a single lapse of judgement can have their tails wagging or see you entering the next bend carrying too much speed without much in the way of driving aids to save you! Not the sort of drive I would want from a daily, but just the sort of excitement that makes a weekend steer so much fun.

Great to hear your car is driven as intended and not just sat in a garage somewhere as part of a collection.

[Gio G]

Superb car, just love the design from that era. I bet a drive in one is an occasion!!

[Nattyboy888]

Very well written and one word. Character ! I own a '90's ducati 888 and oddly I quite enjoy hunting down the odd 'NLA' part for it - it's part of the ownership experience. One of these or a 'grale would partner it quite well :-)

[simonigrale]

I will have one. I would have LHD with a few KMs on the clock so I wouldn't be scared to use it. Once I buy one I will use it and keep it forever.

[Ando23]

Great car simply stunning would be a very rare site in sunny west coast of Scotland