Who said Ferrari’s are fragile and temperamental?
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Well after taking delivery of a six year old 360M two weeks ago I have just done the following in it:
High Wycombe to Dijon – 474 miles
Dijon to Portofino – 416 miles
Portofino to Naples – 416 miles
Naples to Malta – 438 miles
Then 7 days and around 200 miles pounding the appallingly badly pot holed roads in Malta, including a day trip to the island of Gozo (even worse roads than Malta). Then:
Malta to Naples – 438 miles
Naples to Venice – 454 miles
Venice to Monaco – 355 miles
Monaco to Barcelona – 413 miles
That’s nearly 4K miles, five car ferries trips and six countries in two weeks covering some pretty appalling roads and most of the motorway cruising in Italy was done at 200 kph plus. (Max I got up to was around 260 kph on the A21 between Brescia and Piacenza but there was too much traffic to try a Vmax.)
How did the car behave? Perfectly. I didn’t even need to top up the oil or put air in the tyres. The only mechanical gremlins were it had to be jump started once (problem never reoccurred) and it’s lost all of its power steering fluid (I will top up and monitor this once I find a place that sells bloody Shell Donax TX :rolleyes:).
OK it needs a bloody good valet and polish and yes I managed to kerb a wheel and scuff the rear bumper. But considering I’ve done what for some Ferraris is an annual mileage in two weeks in pretty harsh conditions I think the car’s stood up pretty damn well.
I quite impressed with it TBH :)
Oh and during the past two weeks the passenger seat has played host to two Hungarian lap dancers working in Malta and a gorgeous Italian hotel receptionist from Portofino :lick:
High Wycombe to Dijon – 474 miles
Dijon to Portofino – 416 miles
Portofino to Naples – 416 miles
Naples to Malta – 438 miles
Then 7 days and around 200 miles pounding the appallingly badly pot holed roads in Malta, including a day trip to the island of Gozo (even worse roads than Malta). Then:
Malta to Naples – 438 miles
Naples to Venice – 454 miles
Venice to Monaco – 355 miles
Monaco to Barcelona – 413 miles
That’s nearly 4K miles, five car ferries trips and six countries in two weeks covering some pretty appalling roads and most of the motorway cruising in Italy was done at 200 kph plus. (Max I got up to was around 260 kph on the A21 between Brescia and Piacenza but there was too much traffic to try a Vmax.)
How did the car behave? Perfectly. I didn’t even need to top up the oil or put air in the tyres. The only mechanical gremlins were it had to be jump started once (problem never reoccurred) and it’s lost all of its power steering fluid (I will top up and monitor this once I find a place that sells bloody Shell Donax TX :rolleyes:).
OK it needs a bloody good valet and polish and yes I managed to kerb a wheel and scuff the rear bumper. But considering I’ve done what for some Ferraris is an annual mileage in two weeks in pretty harsh conditions I think the car’s stood up pretty damn well.
I quite impressed with it TBH :)
Oh and during the past two weeks the passenger seat has played host to two Hungarian lap dancers working in Malta and a gorgeous Italian hotel receptionist from Portofino :lick:
I had no problems with the following trip in my 348 last week:
Day 1 - Peterborough to Channel Tunnel (120 miles) then Channel Tunnel to somewhere just after Frankfurt (410 miles). Total 530 miles.
Day 2 - Frankfurt to Budapest (590 miles).
No oil required, just a bit of super unleaded. Saw 240 kmh on the a'bahn, still pulling strongly but the road got a bit twisty!
Day 1 - Peterborough to Channel Tunnel (120 miles) then Channel Tunnel to somewhere just after Frankfurt (410 miles). Total 530 miles.
Day 2 - Frankfurt to Budapest (590 miles).
No oil required, just a bit of super unleaded. Saw 240 kmh on the a'bahn, still pulling strongly but the road got a bit twisty!
t1grm said:
t1grm said:
Oh and during the past two weeks the passenger seat has played host to two Hungarian lap dancers working in Malta and a gorgeous Italian hotel receptionist from Portofino
Your not related to Simon George by any chance are you
Who?
Simon owns the Orange Murcielago which is featured in the Fast Fleet section of EVO and seems to spend his time posing around the more exclusive parts of Europe, usually with a top bird in the passenger seat.
t1grm said:
Oh and during the past two weeks the passenger seat has played host to two Hungarian lap dancers working in Malta and a gorgeous Italian hotel receptionist from Portofino
You need to try harder... or maybe it's because mine's topless that i got so much bilini clad interest in Spain
Good work on the mileage, it's what they were made for apparently!
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