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Master Don Juan
Now this is my kind of thread. I used to roadrace both bikes and cars semi-pro, so I've had a chance to drive so many cool cars it's crazy.
I have driven the F40, and I came away from it completely unimpressed. Sure it's ungodly fast, but anything can be. For half the money I could have a Hyundai Accent that fast, but that's not the point. It handles like a champ, mainly because it weighs about as much as a half-eaten biscuit. But when you're in it, it doesn't feel that special. It rattles, it shakes and shimmies, gets stupid hot inside there and the A/C is pretty much just for show. if it was just a track car, it'd be brilliant, but putting that thing on the road, with everything that it's capable of is kinda like dating Adriana Lima and being told that you can only have hand jobs. You're not even cracking half of it's potential before you're in "just arrest me now" territory. All that in a car with little to no creature comforts, a thoroughly un-exotic ambiance from the cabin, and gargantuan maintenance bills. It just doesn't make much sense.
I've never been a big fan of the Prancing Horses, but I do see the draw to them. You're not just buying a car, you're investing in an experience. I own a track prepped 93 RX-7, single turbo, full suspension, total stripped down race car that will run away and hide from pretty much any Ferrari ever made (and at a fraction of the cost of even the cheapest Red car), but the fact still remains. The panty dropping quotient is exponentially higher with the Ferrari, always will be. And for no other reason than that little pony on the back.
OT: Out of all the cars I've driven, the Elises, Exiges, 360s, 430s, Gallardos, Murcies, Porsche GT2s, GT3RSs, NSXs, AMGs, Audi S and RS cars, Supras, Astons (even though my next car will be the new Vantage), out of every sports or performance oriented road car I've been in, I still know what I think the best car ever made is.
E39 (00-03) BMW M5. I just sold one (only because the profit was unreal), but I know that I will have another. It's absolutely the best of everything. It's silly-fast from the factory and you can bump it up to 640hp, it corners like a car weighing 1000lbs less than it does, it looks classy and upscale without being pretentious, when you settle down it rides as smooth as any luxo-cruiser should, AND you can still haul five people plus a trunk full of junk. It's seriously a four-door Corvette. I took it to Fallbrook, Cali, about an hour north of San Diego for Thanksgiving, and had more fun on one stretch of mountain road between the city and the place I was staying than all of my years racing. 75mph around a hairpin turn, up to 130 before climbing on the brakes for the next one. Just like heaven. Nothing better in my book (perhaps when they offer the E60 M5 without that crap-ass SMG, that might overtake the old one, we'll see).
I have driven the F40, and I came away from it completely unimpressed. Sure it's ungodly fast, but anything can be. For half the money I could have a Hyundai Accent that fast, but that's not the point. It handles like a champ, mainly because it weighs about as much as a half-eaten biscuit. But when you're in it, it doesn't feel that special. It rattles, it shakes and shimmies, gets stupid hot inside there and the A/C is pretty much just for show. if it was just a track car, it'd be brilliant, but putting that thing on the road, with everything that it's capable of is kinda like dating Adriana Lima and being told that you can only have hand jobs. You're not even cracking half of it's potential before you're in "just arrest me now" territory. All that in a car with little to no creature comforts, a thoroughly un-exotic ambiance from the cabin, and gargantuan maintenance bills. It just doesn't make much sense.
I've never been a big fan of the Prancing Horses, but I do see the draw to them. You're not just buying a car, you're investing in an experience. I own a track prepped 93 RX-7, single turbo, full suspension, total stripped down race car that will run away and hide from pretty much any Ferrari ever made (and at a fraction of the cost of even the cheapest Red car), but the fact still remains. The panty dropping quotient is exponentially higher with the Ferrari, always will be. And for no other reason than that little pony on the back.
OT: Out of all the cars I've driven, the Elises, Exiges, 360s, 430s, Gallardos, Murcies, Porsche GT2s, GT3RSs, NSXs, AMGs, Audi S and RS cars, Supras, Astons (even though my next car will be the new Vantage), out of every sports or performance oriented road car I've been in, I still know what I think the best car ever made is.
E39 (00-03) BMW M5. I just sold one (only because the profit was unreal), but I know that I will have another. It's absolutely the best of everything. It's silly-fast from the factory and you can bump it up to 640hp, it corners like a car weighing 1000lbs less than it does, it looks classy and upscale without being pretentious, when you settle down it rides as smooth as any luxo-cruiser should, AND you can still haul five people plus a trunk full of junk. It's seriously a four-door Corvette. I took it to Fallbrook, Cali, about an hour north of San Diego for Thanksgiving, and had more fun on one stretch of mountain road between the city and the place I was staying than all of my years racing. 75mph around a hairpin turn, up to 130 before climbing on the brakes for the next one. Just like heaven. Nothing better in my book (perhaps when they offer the E60 M5 without that crap-ass SMG, that might overtake the old one, we'll see).
