It's true. Driving a Ferrari is a full-on sensory experience, along the lines of taking a ride on a thoroughbred horse. It demands your full attention. You will never fall asleep at the wheel of a Ferrari.
+1 Totally agree.
I had an old 328 about ten years ago. It is literally an engine planted in the middle of this item that subsequently turned out to be a vehicle. My (then) wife did not like it at all. And, yes, it did demand your FULL attention. There is none of this sit in the car and ride. It was a driver's car. Personally (uh oh, here he goes ...) I feel there are three phases of Ferrari's
1) the original days from the racing cars of the 50s and 60s to the end of the front ended Lampredi and columbo V12s
2) from the dino to the 348/355 era - mid engined V6/V8 (they threw in the 412 and the BB in this era and I can't find a place to categorize them)
3) anything from the 360/360 challenge on.
The first category comprised drum braked cars with carbs and men with pot bellies driving them in Monaco and anywhere else they could. F1, GP2, whatever they could find
The second category was the cars that Enzo created to pay for his addiction to racing. These are the dinos the GT4, 308, 328, 348 and 355 cars. The 355 was the watershed car into the digital and technical era
The third category saw cars with F1 shifters and digital injections and on board CPUs. Some might say that Ferrari sold out when they took this route, but Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson starship, The Cubs started playing games at night, The Designated Hitter emerged and - let's face it - the world just will never be the same, right?
I did not know about the 40% reduction in fuel consumption - that is a bonus. My 328 loved its petrol. I actually had to thin it a bit on the last few inspections for it to pass. Sold it to a AeroMexico pilot in Houston. Maybe I will send him an email.
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