Ferrari Mailing List: Re: My almost perfect day

[ken rentiers (rentiers]

On Oct 27, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Fellippe Galletta wrote:

> Saying the Ford GT is a poor long distance car is as appropriate as  
> saying
> the F40 or Countach are poor long distance cars.

Fellipe:

The F40 and the Countach are very poor cars for a long road trip.  
They are both awesome pieces of machinery, but they would not be on  
my short list of cars for the 600 mile day This from an old fart who  
drove his 328 from Houston to Huntingdon Beach, and ran Texas to  
Vancouver in a 911, amongst many other long distance sojourns in  
small fast machinery. Others may disagree.

A perfect car for such work would be the new Maserati GT Coupe.

Here is the strangest thing: on my many road trips (most recently  
Houston to Calgary AB 2 weeks ago via Santa Fe, NM and Durango, CO) I  
almost NEVER see BMWs , Mercedes let alone Ferraris etc. out on the  
road. What you see are 18 wheelers, pickups and econoboxes with the  
occasional Buick tossed in. Yet in LA, Houston, Seattle and points  
east the more affluent neighborhoods are studded with great road  
machines. They are primped and polished but seldom driven beyond the  
city limits - (some list members are great exceptions to this). What  
a terrible waste of all that fine road machinery!

ken