Ferrari Mailing List: Ferrari vis Rolls Royce

[Gavin (gavinnz]

Just going to pass on some nice observations I made after two weekends 
away... first in the GTB them in the Silver Shadow..

Both are great cars that do what they do SO SO well.
They are so far at the oposite ends of the use spectrum it's amazing!

In the Ferrari the bueatiful engine is everpresent, the fiim steering is pin 
point and you can feel everything that the road has to offer through the 
wheel... the brakes and clutch are heavy (compartively) and you are siting 
ON the road.  Everything to put you in contact with the fast driving 
experance...

In the Silver Shadow... it could not be more different!  You steer with one 
finger, road what road?, hardly hear the motor unless it's poked with a big 
stick, never feel a gearchange.... slow and steady is the way,... it rewards 
the smoothest of drivers.  It does everything to insulate you from the 
driving experiance. Which is in it'self a great experance and way to travel.

They are both HUGELY enjoyable.

I think I got noticed by other drivers more in the RR.... I think it's just 
easyer to recognise to the "general" public.

Another funny story...
Where I keep my cars they are nose to tail in a shed...
So to get the RR out for the weekend I had to fire up the 308 and drive it 
out, get the RR out then put the 308 back in...
I did this while being watched by a friendly local joiner who works close 
by...

Then I could not resist making the coment......

"hell lifes TOUGH, when you have to move your Ferrari to get your Rolls 
Royce out!"

Oh yes.... lifes goooood.

Gavin
New Zealand
79 308GTB
70 Silver Shadow
15 Fiat
15 American LaFrance