Evo Group Test M600 / 458 / MP4-12C??

[BOBBY G]

Hi all,

Unfortunately, my Thursday was spent driving to Wales (400 mile drive) for a funeral.

However, nice roads, nice sunny day, and..what the hell is that thing coming towards us?!!

Noble M600 (M600 RHD Reg) drives past. Awesome!!!

Was saying to wife to keep em peeled incase there is an Evo group test going on, might see something else.

Ferrari 458 (Red) drives past. Yummy!

Then the Mclaren MP4-12C goes past (beautiful deep metallic red)It looked blooming fantastic!!!

In no way does the Macca look dull compared to the likes of the 458, it was utterly jaw dropping.

The Noble looks menacing and purposeful.

So, guessing we will see them soon in Evo. Was hoping to see a Porsche in the mix, maybe I missed it.......

Bob

[North West Tom]

How often do Evo do this?

[isuk]

This pic was posted on Teamspeed so it looks like Car magazine is doing a similar group test.

[Mr E]

I saw a koeing-whatsit-egg west of
Swansea and making progress on sunday. I wonder where it was going...

[Angelis]

and Ferrari wouldn't let us to a 458/MP4 comparison!!!!

[iandc]

Angelis said:

and Ferrari wouldn't let us to a 458/MP4 comparison!!!!

Maybe they were worried regarding the result! Would have been an interesting comparison as i guess 2 different approaches to achieving the same thing.

[Matt3568]

458 FNE has £73,000 worth of options on top of the £173,000 list price

http://twitter.com/FNEPR

[DayTrader]

Angelis said:

and Ferrari wouldn't let us to a 458/MP4 comparison!!!!

They probably didn't let Evo - I imagine it was a friends car.

[yellowtr]

iandc said:

Maybe they were worried regarding the result! Would have been an interesting comparison as i guess 2 different approaches to achieving the same thing.

They should be

[simonspider]

DayTrader said:

They probably didn't let Evo - I imagine it was a friends car.

The 458 was a press car. Mine was on standby

[BOBBY G]

DayTrader said:

Angelis said:

and Ferrari wouldn't let us to a 458/MP4 comparison!!!!

They probably didn't let Evo - I imagine it was a friends car.

The 458 had foreign Plates on it, so was not a UK press car.

[simonspider]

BOBBY G said:

The 458 had foreign Plates on it, so was not a UK press car.

Many press cars have foreign plates. All Lamborghini's press fleet are Italian registered but right hand drive. They come from the factory for 6 months then go back

[anonymous-user]

My god that 458 looks beautiful from the rear.

[Tuvra]

Mr E said:

I saw a koeing-whatsit-egg west of
Swansea and making progress on sunday. I wonder where it was going...

There is a Koenisegg based in Llanelli, either orange or wrapped matte black, would have been wearing a plate initialled 'GE', may have been this car?

[JADF]

Obviously lots of tests going on as I am aware of this one:

McLaren MP4 (orange)
Ferrari 458 (red and black)
Lambo Balboni (white)
Audi R8 (silver)
Nissan GTR (purple/dark blue)
Porsche GT2 (light blue)

Cheers.

[AndyS2]

isuk said:

This pic was posted on Teamspeed so it looks like Car magazine is doing a similar group test.

Apparently the RS2 kicked ass

[Guyr]

simonspider said:

Many press cars have foreign plates. All Lamborghini's press fleet are Italian registered but right hand drive. They come from the factory for 6 months then go back

A suspicious person might wonder why they do that - perhaps they wouldn't want there to be one or two 'ex-press' cars out there in the used market that were faster than all the customer cars?

[Angelis]

iandc said:

Maybe they were worried regarding the result! Would have been an interesting comparison as i guess 2 different approaches to achieving the same thing.

We weren't going to do an in depth performance comparison as we don't have the budget.

Once the customer MP4's are delivered we'll do a video feature and comparison on it.

[simonspider]

Guyr said:

A suspicious person might wonder why they do that - perhaps they wouldn't want there to be one or two 'ex-press' cars out there in the used market that were faster than all the customer cars?

Cue Chris Harris's recent piece on Ferrari on the net, makes for interesting reading

[GT3ZZZ]