Can't afford a Ferrari F40?
Discussion
While I love the idea of a "cut price" F40, I somehow think that adding a couple of turbo's and pushing 550bhp through an already highly strung and some would say somewhat fragile Ferrari 348 is a recipe just asking for heartache and big bills!
In short, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
In short, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
k all about cars they may. LaurasOtherHalf said:
Wonderful. Would rather a Koenig Competition Evolution based on the Testarossa but I'll take the 348 at that price. http://www.koenig-specials.com/ferrari/ferrari-tes...
Mind you I'm a sucker for all of Koenig's Ferraris.
Edited by Agent Orange on Wednesday 20th March 14:52
This is the dealer's own car, I think. I live just down the road from him and everytime I see it in the distance my heart skips a beat as I think a genuine F40 is barrelling down the road. But close up you realise it isn't, I will had it to him though, it sounds the tits on full throttle and bangs and spits all over the show 
Positives:
- quick
- rare
- roof comes off unlike a real f40
Negatives:
- reliability? thats a lot of power from a 348 v8.
- looks like a kit car to the unknowledgeable
- 348 handling + more power = tricky drive?
I think it's priced pretty well - 10k less than a decent 360 modena? Yep, overall its thumbs up from me.
.. but I also can't afford it either.
- quick
- rare
- roof comes off unlike a real f40
Negatives:
- reliability? thats a lot of power from a 348 v8.
- looks like a kit car to the unknowledgeable
- 348 handling + more power = tricky drive?
I think it's priced pretty well - 10k less than a decent 360 modena? Yep, overall its thumbs up from me.
.. but I also can't afford it either.
Erm - ummmmm - ererrrrrerrrrrrr
I'm not sure I wouldn't think that was an MR2 at first glance, there's a decent MR2 355 around here and the ONLY thing which distances it are it's wheels and the interior - that looks tattier, to be honest.
The back is particularly nasty - Koenig make crazy cars but trying to make that look like an F40 was a massive mistake - as was putting 550hp into Ferraris least loved modern car I suspect.
Still, it's cheap and rare - I mean it's cheaper than the one-off Hartge 5l M Roadster in the same category - half-the-price in-fact - on that basis...
I'm not sure I wouldn't think that was an MR2 at first glance, there's a decent MR2 355 around here and the ONLY thing which distances it are it's wheels and the interior - that looks tattier, to be honest.
The back is particularly nasty - Koenig make crazy cars but trying to make that look like an F40 was a massive mistake - as was putting 550hp into Ferraris least loved modern car I suspect.
Still, it's cheap and rare - I mean it's cheaper than the one-off Hartge 5l M Roadster in the same category - half-the-price in-fact - on that basis...
Guvernator said:
While I love the idea of a "cut price" F40, I somehow think that adding a couple of turbo's and pushing 550bhp through an already highly strung and some would say somewhat fragile Ferrari 348 is a recipe just asking for heartache and big bills!
In short, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
Where did you come up with the Ferrari V8 being mechanically fragile?In short, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
doogz said:
St John Smythe said:
I never get the valuations on cars sometimes. He states in the advert it's been valued between 50k and 60k but sells it for half that price?
He states it was valued at that, years and years ago.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff