RE: Chris Harris video: F40 vs F50

[anonymous-user]

So glad I could cast that onto the 55" telly.

The childish excitement is just brilliant and under the same circumstances I would be exactly the same.

F40 for me, stonking car.

[BoxerF50]

Yipper said:

F50 is a bit of a boneshaker, but sounds so much better than the F40.

It is. After 2 hour in an F50, your brain is completely addled. The F40 you can live in all day.

[456mgt]

BoxerF50 said:

The F50 still rates as the best Ferrari I have owned.

I finally put together a write up on my POV of the F40 vs. F50: http://karenable.com/ferrari-f40-vs-f50/

Very nicely put, and from a long term owners viewpoint The only thing I'd add is that the F50 feels like it's on your side. When you get it out of shape, it's already starting to come back *before* you start correcting. At least that's my definition of its being on your side. What's really interesting is how much the engineering philosophy changed between 1991/2 (F40) and 1995/6 (F50); they came at the same problem from completely different angles.

I wanted to want an F40, it's a brilliant, brilliant thing, but the epic turbo lag and horrible build quality put me right off. IMO it's spiritual successor is not the F50, it's the Carrera GT. Same lightness of touch and explosive power delivery, but with zero lag and much better build quality.

[Rawwr]

I've said it before (to a bit of ridicule) and I'll say it again: The F50 is 'just' a big V12 Elise in all the best ways. It's hard to describe how you feel everything from every component; every vibration, every clunk, every click, everything all fed directly to the driver without any assistance getting in the way. It's tactile in exactly the same way an original Elise is and that's a really good thing.

[ghost83]

I used to watch an f40 bomb down the m606 on a Sunday night (owner of readmans)

Flames would pop out of the exhaust

About 15yrs ago I saw one at the Ferrari showroom through the window and it was magnificent! I didn’t dare go in to have a look though! Oh I wish I had as I haven’t seen one since

I’d love to have a sit in one

[epom]

Rawwr said:

I've said it before (to a bit of ridicule) and I'll say it again: The F50 is 'just' a big V12 Elise in all the best ways. It's hard to describe how you feel everything from every component; every vibration, every clunk, every click, everything all fed directly to the driver without any assistance getting in the way. It's tactile in exactly the same way an original Elise is and that's a really good thing.

My fave Ferrari....

[Guvernator]

The F40 has almost always been a Ferrari poster car but it's amazing how much love the F50 gets these days considering it was sort of like Ferrari's ginger step child on release.

It's amazing how over time, things that were considered a negative have now turned into a positive, the very raw nature of this car is now it's biggest selling point.

[BoxerF50]

Guvernator said:

The F40 has almost always been a Ferrari poster car but it's amazing how much love the F50 gets these days considering it was sort of like Ferrari's ginger step child on release.

It's amazing how over time, things that were considered a negative have now turned into a positive, the very raw nature of this car is now it's biggest selling point.

It’s funny how times change. When I bought my F50 they were a hard sell.

Don’t think anyone will try to put a modified F1engine into a road car again.

[skidskid]

BoxerF50 said:

It’s funny how times change. When I bought my F50 they were a hard sell.

Don’t think anyone will try to put a modified F1engine into a road car again.

Except Mercedes in the project one.

[Dave Hedgehog]

skidskid said:

BoxerF50 said:

It’s funny how times change. When I bought my F50 they were a hard sell.

Don’t think anyone will try to put a modified F1engine into a road car again.

Except Mercedes in the project one.

or lexus in the LFA, they reopened the F1 engine plant just to make the LFA engine

[BoxerF50]

Dave Hedgehog said:

skidskid said:

BoxerF50 said:

It’s funny how times change. When I bought my F50 they were a hard sell.

Don’t think anyone will try to put a modified F1engine into a road car again.

Except Mercedes in the project one.

or lexus in the LFA, they reopened the F1 engine plant just to make the LFA engine

Yes but the LFA engine was not just a modified F1 Toyota engine that they dropped into a road car.