One Hour Of Ferrari Ownership ...

iainw

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A friend of mine (and fellow Maserati owner) is about to list an auto black golf. It's done 90k miles and will be £5k. Reliable and cheap workhorse. PM if interested.
Thanks - Sounds interesting ewan- I think you have my email - could you perhaps get him to email some photos?
 

BennyD

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Id rather have a Zonda. Now that thing has sh!tloads of road presence.
 

Felonious Crud

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You might just be right there Ben :wink:
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The attention to detail with how the carbon weave lines up and intersects is extraordinary. I'd be scared to drive it, but what a thing of beauty to have in my living room (in another life, because I tried it I suspect Mrs Crud might cut this life short rather decisively).
 

alfatwo

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I am a huge McLaren fan.....but not of the Senna....it's not a good looking car that. Something just doesn't look right.

Yea, McLaren need a few good Italian pencil jockey's on the books!

The English are mostly useless at car design's... just like we couldn't design armour or make proper light weight swords that worked back in the middle ages

The Italians have a fair for all that lovely looking technical stuff!

Dave
 

D Walker

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Yea, McLaren need a few good Italian pencil jockey's on the books!

The English are mostly useless at car design's... just like we couldn't design armour or make proper light weight swords that worked back in the middle ages

The Italians have a fair for all that lovely looking technical stuff!

Dave
Really, Challenger tank armour is one of the biggest secrets out their, it’s guarded 24/7...
 

alfatwo

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Really, Challenger tank armour is one of the biggest secrets out their, it’s guarded 24/7...

I recon were all old school compered to the new Russian battle tank tech, I don't think we'd even get a look in if anything kicked off!

Dave
 

Andyk

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Yea, McLaren need a few good Italian pencil jockey's on the books!

The English are mostly useless at car design's... just like we couldn't design armour or make proper light weight swords that worked back in the middle ages

The Italians have a fair for all that lovely looking technical stuff!

Dave

I actually really like McLaren design these days Dave....570s Spyder is one of my favourite modern cars and I prefer the design of the current McLaren range to any modern Ferrari but I just think that Senna is pig ugly and lost its way design wise. It looks like someone has taken a vehicle from a 1970's SiFi film and tried to make it modern....I get the way it goes may have dictated it's style but for the way it looks is more important.
 

Rwc13

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Really, I suspect McLaren were more interested in getting it to go as fast as possible. Hence function over form. You can’t compare it to a standard McLaren or Ferrari road car where more conformist styling is clearly essential
 

Andyk

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100% agree...The styling def been born out of their desire formit to be the best and what it does. They sell everyone no doubt and it will be mind blowing to drive.
 

Doohickey

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Yea, McLaren need a few good Italian pencil jockey's on the books!

The English are mostly useless at car design's... just like we couldn't design armour or make proper light weight swords that worked back in the middle ages

The Italians have a fair for all that lovely looking technical stuff!

Dave

I don't see a lot of style about modern Ferraris. They are all designed with the wind tunnel more than a drawing board (accepting that no-one actually uses one of those anymore). Assuming that you mean British rather than English :), look at the work of Ian Callum and say that he can't design a car.