RE: Ferrari F40: PH Used Buying Guide

[anonymous-user]

cookie1600 said:

...I'd be surprised if there are many (any) rough ones out there ...

You'd be amazed. Little worse for a car than never being used. You wouldn't want to use many of them in anger.

[givablondabone]

Would have one of these in a heartbeat if the number came up. Followed one for some time on the way down to Le Mans this year. Even at a tickle ( 125mph ahem) you could here it.

[aaron_2000]

Krikkit said:

Lighten up guys, what's wrong with a bit of fun?

It's Pistonheads, like anyone here can have a laugh

[SPMX5]

V8 FOU said:

Hmm.....
1100kg. That's less than that VW Polo you are getting moist about......

Progress. Not.

Never liked the F40 that much BTW

are you lamenting the fact that a polo weighs more than this?

[slipstream 1985]

Noble m12 closest modern car you an get to an f40

[corozin]

Not wishing to seem funny, but considering these things now regularly trade at over £750k I can't see too many prospective owners purchasing without full independant mechanical reports. You don't just pop over, kick the tyres and have a deal there and then!

[myhandle]

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.

[HorneyMX5]

This article has missed out that you should not pay extra for mats and flaps from your local Ferrari dealer. These can be picked up much cheaper on eBay and fitted yourself.

[myhandle]

slipstream 1985 said:

Noble m12 closest modern car you an get to an f40

Noble M600 I think you mean.

[myhandle]

slipstream 1985 said:

Noble m12 closest modern car you an get to an f40

Noble M600 I think you mean.

[DoubleD]

What a great fun article. Odd that so many on a motoring forum seem so miserable about it.

[woody166]

Smoke out the exhaust = Turbo problems. Great advice. I'll be keeping an eye out for that on my next viewing .........

[coppice]

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.

[MikeGalos]

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).

[slipstream 1985]

myhandle said:

slipstream 1985 said:

Noble m12 closest modern car you can get to an f40

Noble M600 I think you mean.

If you can afford a m600 you can probably afford a f40. m12 is 30-50k. Alot but more achievable.

[maxdb]

It was a fun read - the seats also may be prone to wear as they do hold you in well!!

They are also quite a bit smaller then you would expect in real life.

[aaron_2000]

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.

[bern]

All time lottery win car. I'll have mine in black please.

But...

"Look underneath for any damage or cracks on the chassis tubes."

Really??? On a buying guide for Nivara maybe.

[ghost83]

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

[Smokey32]

Looks better than any modern supercar. Still the ultimate.