Ferrari Mailing List: Re: TestaRossa

[Mike (themightytoe]

Oh absolutely it would spank the Acr...  Just swap it's street tires  
for some Pilot sport cups (like the vipers)...

BR,
Mike Fleischer

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On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com 
> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Mike Fleischer <themightytoe [at] gmail.com 
> >wrote:
>
> > See now,
> >
> > I can agree with that statement, my 348 was a manual steering car and
> > its feel through a corner was second to none.  I drove some 355's  
> > back
> > in the day and that was my biggest complaint about that car, the  
> > softer
> > steering.  Still the 308 GT4's don't really shout Ferrari to me.
>
>
> Part of the Ferrari mystique to me is very little known trivia. One  
> piece of
> that trivia is that Ferrari offered a power steering delete on the  
> F355. Was
> it euro only or an international option? I'm not sure, but it seems  
> when I
> asked Ralph from Fchat about this he implied that it wasn't an easy
> conversion to do.
>
> I seriously feel like writing a letter to FNA about this....lol.
>
> Some say the manual rack is slower than the PS rack....I'd hope that  
> would
> not be the case. Could a company like prodrive custom make a manual  
> rack?
> This is important to me.
>
> :)
>
>
> > As for the Merak and Urraco.. Yuck not my cup of tea.  The Jalpa  
> > was OK,
> > but it still looked like a copy of a BMW M1.   Seeing a Gallardo,  
> > LP640,
>
>
> Take a look at the Lamborghini Silhouette.....a smoother looking  
> version of
> the Jalpa. Extremely rare.
>
>
>
> > 599 GTB and F430 next to each other, Ferrari really has lost the  
> > styling
> > battle, though the Italia looks very pretty so maybe a comeback?
> > Performance wise they may be better, but only marginally so.  For a
> > Front Engine supercar, no question the Maserati GT and AM
> > Vantage/Vanquish are the prettiest (obtainable) cars on the road  
> > today.
>
>
> +1
>
>
> > If I wanted something front engine, truly fast and track worthy,  
> > the ZR1
> > Vette is the only game in town, it would spank all comers on a road
> > course.
>
> Will it spank the Viper ACR as well?
>
> As much as I like Vipers it's hard to see them being as finesse as
> Corvettes, although I hear they do a very good job on the track.
>
>
> > The very first Ferrari I ever saw in person was in 3rd grade, one  
> > of the
> > girls in my class got dropped off in her Dad's red Dino.  A real Dino
> > (246), not the pretender to the name...  Truly a pretty car.
>
>
> Yes, a yellow/black GTS with 16" QV rims.....mmmm.
>
> FG
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