Epic Italians!

[roverspeed]

I saw a red one of these up Craigantlet yesterday, i let him out of a junction and he give it the beans in 1st and 2nd. I have to say, it sounded horrendous.

In no way sonorous, just loud and awful :-(

 

[Gambit]

The 90s for 70k cars brought me back to these....just wish i had the money, the space and the balls to buy one

Maserati Shamal

 

[Graham]

I saw a red one of these up Craigantlet yesterday, i let him out of a junction and he give it the beans in 1st and 2nd. I have to say, it sounded horrendous.

In no way sonorous, just loud and awful :-(

4cyl turbo is never going to be glorious lol

 

[johnm]

The 90s for 70k cars brought me back to these....just wish i had the money, the space and the balls to buy one

Maserati Shamal
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Never seen one of those before, but that is awesome looking! Thats added to the list!

 

[Lyons]

 

[Ghisallo]

The 90s for 70k cars brought me back to these....just wish i had the money, the space and the balls to buy one

Maserati Shamal
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I was going to put a Shamal on the 90s for 70k thread last week but couldn't find one below £70k.

As for the Countach, Diablo and Miura that I posted above, it's incredible they were all sub £70k cars about 7 or 8 years ago. It was obvious their values would go up, shame I didn't have the balls to remortgage the house!

 

[roverspeed]

4cyl turbo is never going to be glorious lol

I know but it really sounded awful. They were trying way to hard to make a 4 pot turbo sound *because race car*

I know it must be hard to convinced folks to hand over 50k for a 1.75 litre 4 pot turbo

I just had a play on the configuration site and spec'd one up to £63k! holy god!

Why didn't they put a v6 in it :-(

 

[Graham]

The 8c is the proper special car that's why

 

[roverspeed]

The 8c is the proper special car that's why

But it has a Ferrari v8. So having a v6 wouldn't have treaded on it's toes.

A non turbo version of the new v6 would be great.

Afaik the main cost was creating the all carbon body shell. So I doubt the engine would have impacted price that much

 

[Graham]

I imagine power to weight would have been ruined and then priced itself out of the segment

 

[Big Jon]

But it has a Ferrari v8.

Technically it's a Maserati V8

 

[roverspeed]

I imagine power to weight would have been ruined and then priced itself out of the segment

Does it really have a segment? I don't think comparable cars equate on price and price comparable cars just don't equate to it

 

[weeloaney]

@Lyons.

Turn the volume up full blast, it's worth it.

 

[stuartyvilla]

^That is just fabulous, dreamland right there

 

[stuartyvilla]

Shame about the music but beautifully shot

 

[Lyons]

Ferrari have officially lost the plot. What is this abomination?!

 

[Dub_cub 89]

New ff? I think it looks good

 

[cauld1]

That looks great imo. One of the very very few modern super touring type things that in any way interests me.

 

[Lyons]

 

[FM155]

If one has to transport the wife and kids to the yacht down in St Tropez and go ski-ing in the winter, one needs a practical 4wd 4 seater...
Doesn't look bad TBH, like a modern M Coupe on acid. Kewl.

 

[Lyons]

The worlds gone mad.

Whoever thought Porsche would be making nicer cars than Ferrari.

 

[cauld1]

Theres frig all wrong with that Ferrari. Nothing wrong with Porsches either, I generally prefer them over most of that type of stuff. Then again modern cars, and super cars generally have very little appeal to me.

 

[Lyons]

Isn't it great that people have their own taste and opinion.

 

[cauld1]

Back on topic....

 

[weeloaney]

Isn't it great that people have their own taste and opinion.

But yours is wrong