Never meet your heroes?: Ferrari 458 Italia- Discussion

[200Plus Club]

That's certainly an experience all right....oh dear.

[cayman-black]

mehmehmeh said:

Could be worse, you could have a condescending woman making you drive at 30mph in 6th gear the entire time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCuJanH0HMw

How annoying is she?

[Durzel]

+1

How to ruin the whole experience.

These cars are built to be driven hard. There is a world of difference between driving them with gusto and ragging them, the former does no damage whatsoever.

[markiii]

constant chiding not to put the power down in the corner when he actually hadn't ffs

[jackal]

boxerTen said:

Cheers _Leg_, pretty much what I'd guessed, sounds like the F12 is a towering monster of a GT!

To offer a different viewpoint, for me the F12 is a terrible GT. The damping is hard, the throttle very jumpy, steering vague around the straight ahead, the car generally quite edgy even when cruising at high speed and it's NOT happy at all sitting at 70-100mph, it just wants to go go go. Other than the space on offer, it's a terrible GT car, easily beaten by a standard 458 or 488 for this sort of role.

There is a also four corner deadness and a large inert feeling to the chassis until you start loading the car up. But once you do, and really properly wring the F12's neck and unleash all its power and savagery and waywardness, then it's truly incredible, offering up a mad scary experience like no other. More extreme than a Speciale and just a better car overall.

Forget about driving an F12 in the UK, uttely pointless. It will just frustrate. And forget about Route napolean and other such tourist traps. You need the biggest most desolate roads Europe has to offer with zero other cars around. And whilst it's not as nimble as a V8 on a twisty road, it's certainly doesn't want for agility and is just as much fun but in a different way (more rotation and playful rear end, far better sound, more challenging and more intimidating). F12 for me is a car which only makes sense when going absolute balls out. Very special experience.

Edited by jackal on Tuesday 6th November 13:30