Ferrari Mailing List: Re: What you can buy for $30k....

[Alexander Ishii (alexishii]

Oh, mind you, I don't love the model or anything.  Though I will say that
from my limited seat time (one drive), I think performance-wise it will show
a 328 a clean pair of heals.

Just pointing out that it had some "fun" aspects to it.  I really loved that
Autoweek cover...

    -- Alex


on 8/19/10 10:25 AM, clyde romero at clyderomerof4 [at] bellsouth.net wrote:

> The 348 almost bankrupt FNA with service bulletins
> The worst ones were the tail lamps melting!
> Ask any Ferrari dealer or reliable tech
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "IF YOU CAN MEET WITH TRIUMPH AND DISASTER AND TREAT THOSE TWO IMPOSTERS THE
> SAME"
> 
> CLYDE
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Ishii [mailto:alexishii [at] mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:54 PM
> To: Clyde
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] What you can buy for $30k....
> 
> 
> Good things about the 348:
> 
> 1) It "carried the flag" in the face of Honda's NSX... :)
> 
> In objective terms, the NSX was the higher performance car, but I do recall
> that a number of mags said that the emotion of the 348 trumped all that.
> 
> 2) Supposedly had a cool nickname (Piccolo Testarossa) among some of the
> internal factory folks.
> 
> 3) Had (arguably) tauter styling than the Testarossa; side grates were less
> "grating", and had a very athletic stance (first of the modern cars that
> gave the impression of lunging forward).
> 
> 4) Had a really great AutoWeek cover (when it debuted at Frankfurt).
> 
> 5) For better or worse, pioneered the layout architecture that was to
> characterize the next decade+ of the V8 cars.
> 
> 
> Worst thing about the 348:
> 
> Fake front grill (DOH!)...
> 
>     -- Alex
> 
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