where did I go today ?
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Super_Marv
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Verdi?
Glastonbury? - but what you saw, you shouldn't have eaten
Sorry - pic didn't display first time!
Looks like a fire station next door!
Looks like a fire station next door!
peanut
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give up ? ok its Exeter Marsh Barton Trading estate with Porsche on one corner Masserati on the opposite corner and Ferrari on the other corner. several £ million pounds worth of cars within 100 feet and all of them lined up along the pavement. Just sat there and looked for ages [
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peanut
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ORIGINAL: zcacogp
Peanut,
You've been here long enough, you should know better. Discussion and pictures of 944's only, please. None of this inferior rubbish.
Thanks. [
Oli.
I know i know .....hangs head in shame[
]Where was Aston Martin ? and are the two cars on the ramps Maseratti's ?
peanut
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do you know its funny how these beautiful cars can still have the same effect on me now at 57 as they did when I was 7 . I'm like a kid in a candy shop. I'd save all my pocket money then run round the corner to the toy shop and buy that Corgi car I'd been hankering after for months .
They are so beautiful that I just want to run my hand along their surfaces and explore the sensation like a sculpture. I want to sit inside one and flick the switches,smell the smells and feel the peculiar dizzy feeling I had when I first sat inside a Mkll Jag and explored all that leather and walnut and all the illuminated switches and dials . Sheer ecstacy. I hope that feeling never leaves me.
They are so beautiful that I just want to run my hand along their surfaces and explore the sensation like a sculpture. I want to sit inside one and flick the switches,smell the smells and feel the peculiar dizzy feeling I had when I first sat inside a Mkll Jag and explored all that leather and walnut and all the illuminated switches and dials . Sheer ecstacy. I hope that feeling never leaves me.
Wigeon Incognito
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No, bennyboy had it - an F355 on the left and an F430 on the right. There's a grey F430 tucked in the garage on the left too.
edh
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I drove a 360 at Oulton on Tuesday - what a disappointment! Lovely to look at & sit in, goes fast, just a complete disaster at going round corners. I hope it was that particular car, & not the way all 360's behave...
In the wet it had no front end grip, would start to understeer as soon as you tried to turn in. Any power mid corner resulted in more push... In the dry, it turned in very quickly, then the body rolled & the car lurched into oversteer, which was very disconcerting. I don't know if it would have let go, but it didn't inspire confidence. We also had an Audi R8 - which was streets ahead in handling, with no understeer even though it's 4WD. In that I was overtaking most cars, but in the 360 I was waving them past...
In the wet it had no front end grip, would start to understeer as soon as you tried to turn in. Any power mid corner resulted in more push... In the dry, it turned in very quickly, then the body rolled & the car lurched into oversteer, which was very disconcerting. I don't know if it would have let go, but it didn't inspire confidence. We also had an Audi R8 - which was streets ahead in handling, with no understeer even though it's 4WD. In that I was overtaking most cars, but in the 360 I was waving them past...
sawood12
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Totally and utterly agree. I was totally and utterly disappointed on my Ferrari day at the wheel of an F360. Didn't feel that quick in a straight line - comparable to my turbo on boost to the seat of the pants feel, and the handling didn't inspire confidence at all, especially on the damp Donington track. The instructor said the 996 turbo was a much better car and that it was so good you could drive it the same in the dry or the wet. I was regretting not swapping my voucher. Also the flappy paddle gearbox it had was just a joke. Awful gearchanges and they really upset the balance of the car mid corner. Also the interior was a bit naff. I know these cars get alot more hammer than your average privatly owned Ferrari that just spends most of its time in a garage, but the interior was just trashed and the quality of the materials didn't seem particularly nice or expensive. I'd love to have a go in an F430 though and if I had the reddies I much prefer the front enigne'd Ferrari's.
Peter Empson
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I wonder if these 360's have have an understeering setup to make them safer, as I was always under the belief that journalists said they could be a bit twitchy at the limit? (although I wouldn't be completely surprised to hear that it was the press cars that were tweaked and different from normal production ones []).
Nontheless I'd love to have a go in a 360CS!
Very much off topic, but I've just been watching this video and couldn't resist posting it, worth it for the noise alone!
]).Nontheless I'd love to have a go in a 360CS!
Very much off topic, but I've just been watching this video and couldn't resist posting it, worth it for the noise alone!
edh
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I'm sure they are a handful when they go - my instructor said you just can't catch them!. He was very nervous - after my first wet lap (reasonably committed, but battling the understeer) he said "you don't need to be too brave, remember it's not your car" []
I wasn't all that suprised by the wet handling - not much weight in the nose after all. The more disconcerting behaviour was in the dry, where the initial turn in was sharp, but about a second later, the car rolled & turned in more, without any extra steering input. That felt like the car was about to twitch into a much more serious oversteer situation. If I had been confident that wasn't going to happen, I could have thrown it into the corners much faster, but I really didn't want to lose it at Oulton, as there's plenty to hit...
btw - needless to say, the Ferrari didn't make it through the whole day - retired mid afternoon with a noisy rear wheel bearing.
]I wasn't all that suprised by the wet handling - not much weight in the nose after all. The more disconcerting behaviour was in the dry, where the initial turn in was sharp, but about a second later, the car rolled & turned in more, without any extra steering input. That felt like the car was about to twitch into a much more serious oversteer situation. If I had been confident that wasn't going to happen, I could have thrown it into the corners much faster, but I really didn't want to lose it at Oulton, as there's plenty to hit...
btw - needless to say, the Ferrari didn't make it through the whole day - retired mid afternoon with a noisy rear wheel bearing.
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