RE: Ferrari F40: PH Used Buying Guide
Discussion
hondansx said:
No idea how anyone would find this offensive; miserable bunch you lot are.
Would be cool to have some ownership perspectives. I know a guy with one for sale and it has the adjustable suspension, something people are afraid of but something he felt was really useful. It would be good to know about the little details like that, as well as of course running costs just out of fanciful curiosity!
Agreed. This is meant to be an enthusiasts’ website, not What Car. The F40 is generally recognised as being one of the best driver’s cars ever. So isn’t it nice to hear all about something as well-engineered and interesting and special as the F40? The explanation of what it is like to live with a full-on exotic is why Evo magazine has done so well.Would be cool to have some ownership perspectives. I know a guy with one for sale and it has the adjustable suspension, something people are afraid of but something he felt was really useful. It would be good to know about the little details like that, as well as of course running costs just out of fanciful curiosity!
Maranello 2007 ; OH has agreed we can stay a night en route to Siena. Hotel opposite factory entrance - sipping a Lambrusco before going out to dinner at the Cavallino(the restaurant journalists sneer at as being full of mere tourists like us ). Listening to sundry Ferraris being driven with varying degrees of brio down the Via Abetone - there are worse ways to spend a few minutes.
But then ...WTF is THAT ?? An F40 of course, being given a serious thraping at crazy speed , bellowing under acceleration and with a bombardment of cracks and bangs on the over run . Anywhere else it'd have been just daft, crazy drving but not here it wasn't . Magic car.
But then ...WTF is THAT ?? An F40 of course, being given a serious thraping at crazy speed , bellowing under acceleration and with a bombardment of cracks and bangs on the over run . Anywhere else it'd have been just daft, crazy drving but not here it wasn't . Magic car.
CS Garth said:
At Xmas Autocar do a road test of a random vehicle Concorde, Oil Tankers etc. It's a bit of light relief.
And Road & Track has done a full Road Test complete with charts and a cutaway drawing in every April issue of something, shall we say, a bit odd. Things like the Apollo Transporter or a gas powered skateboard or a strip mining dump truck (in that one, the cutaway drawing showed part of a wheel). DoubleD said:
What a great fun article. Odd that so many on a motoring forum seem so miserable about it.
Because so many are just miserable full stop. Complain about all the new hot hatches that come out, complain about other people, tear into people that disagree with them about anything, complain if an article isn't funny enough, complain if it's too funny, complaining seems like a common theme. Looking forward to people proving my point when they reply to this. I've always loved them!
I remember going to visit my grandma in Bradford every Sunday night when I was around 7/8 yr old and every Sunday at roughly the same time you would see the red F40 coming down the other carriageway at some serious speed
Turns out it was the owner of readmans I later found out bloody beautiful thing it was
I saw one down at Ferrari about 15yrs ago and got a pic
I'd love to actually sit in one though if anyone has one in the yorkshire area
I remember going to visit my grandma in Bradford every Sunday night when I was around 7/8 yr old and every Sunday at roughly the same time you would see the red F40 coming down the other carriageway at some serious speed
Turns out it was the owner of readmans I later found out bloody beautiful thing it was
I saw one down at Ferrari about 15yrs ago and got a pic
I'd love to actually sit in one though if anyone has one in the yorkshire area
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