BlackICE
GT Owner
Depends on the parts. Plugs, battery, steering column shrouds, coils, brake boosters for example are too bad.
Headlights, taillights, dashpad, gauges, fenders, OMG!
Geneva
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Depends on the parts. Plugs, battery, steering column shrouds, coils, brake boosters for example are too bad.
Headlights, taillights, dashpad, gauges, fenders, OMG!
Empty Pockets
ex-GT Owner
I'm sitting hear reading all if the opinions on the new Lambo, the new Ferrari, etc. and thinking, the only thing I agree with is Dave's opinion on the F1. Other than a real GT40, it's the only supercar that I think is timeless (ok, a Muira as well), including the F40, F50, and Enzo. All of these current rocket ships, possibly save the new McLaren (if for no other reason it's usability) look as if they are trying to one up an 80's Countach or Testa Rossa with too much glitz or cheese grater siding. I know the designers desire a fighter jet influence or appearance, but none of these cars have anything remotely appealing in a timeless sense. Obviously, the best of the GT40s, the wide body 1968-69 LeMans winners, stop afficianados in their tracks, but so does a Muira, as well as a 275 GTB. An F40 still looks great thirty years later, but the others? Does anyone consider a 512TR a moving work of art? The simplicity of the first Countach went out the window with every iteration that followed. Scores of schoolboys fantasized about owning one thirty years ago. Today, most wouldn't give it a 2nd thought. And that's the way I feel about most, if not all, of these current hyper cars. Outside of the F1, which IS SO COOL, will anyone care about any of these new F-cars or Lambos in a decade, let alone three? The performance may be earth shattering, but the designs are too cookie cutter busy. I know I'm biased, but the GT looks revolutionary today nearly 50 years after the world saw the original, and it is for the design's simplicicity, not because it has hundreds of vents and creases.
As I read this, I kept thinking of a very large pile of very intertwined spaghetti.
Cobrar
GT Owner
gtinmyblood
GT Owner
twobjshelbys
GT Owner
I got my bubble burst. Even if I won Powerball and bought a house with a 6 car garage to put it in I can't get invited to the party. The article in the car mag I was reading at the dentist's office says you have to own AT LEAST 5 OTHER FERRARIS to even be considered. That probably means someone with 5 doesn't stand a chance, probably 10 is the entry level.
I still think it would be a drool car. The F40 and Enzo still rank high but this one is another winner.
I still think it would be a drool car. The F40 and Enzo still rank high but this one is another winner.