| Archive for The Motor Forum talking cars since 2006 |
| Turbonutter |
F40 and 430 ScuderiaA little clip you might enjoyhttp://www.autocar.co.uk/VideosWa...rs/Videos.aspx?AR=240695&CT=V |
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| Clunes |
I'd watched this the other day...
I would have enjoyed it a whole lot more if it wasn't presented by A.Frankel -he is truly awful, a point that has been touched upon here before (in his RS vs GTR vid) |
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| Scouse |
Agreed on the Frankel point - comes across almost as smug as that Scottish Salmond twat.
As to the Ferraris, as good as the F430 may be, when I see one the automatic reaction is 'I wonder what Premiership twat is driving that?' rather than the 'Fuck me that's awesome!' which the F40 still evokes 20 years later. |
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| Twelfth Monkey |
Frankel is dreadful, doubly so on camera. | ||||
| Eff One |
I've always quite liked Frankel in print. Which is what he should stick to.
Surprised at how heavy the Scud is, I thought it was a fair bit lighter than the standard car. The race-spec F430 GT2 (like the ones racing at Le Mans this weekend) probably bear more resemblance to the F40 than the Scud. Ferrari should do a roadgoing version. The F40 is, as JB would say, an absolute monster of a car. Not a beautiful Ferrari, but surely one of the most evocative shapes of all time. |
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| Pkh72 |
I saw an F430 Scud last week on my way home from the pub, it was in that Grey colour they do and it looked immense and sounded even better when he opened it up going down an on slip road. | ||||
| TimR |
I'm really not keen on the sound of the modern 'small' V8s as it seems a bit 'thin' somehow.
The F40 sounds totally different though. I saw one a while back in Fort Augustus  and when it started up it sounded fantastic, even just burbling through the village.
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| DaveGibson |
That would be comparing the 'small' 4.3l V8 in the Scud with the 'big' 2.9l one in the F40, then Tim? 
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| GonnaBreakABuggy |
Yeah, you want one of these stonking huge 2 litre screaming V8's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25qDePUutVw&fmt=18 |
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| TimR |
Obviously I meant small as in Ferrari's current small car - in the same way that a Ka is small (or perhaps not). It's weird because the F40 I heard sounded like it had a BIG engine wheras the F360/430/etc. always seem to sound like they've got a 1.6 in there. |
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| Scouse |
I wonder if that's down to the crank? I know the F430 has a flat-plane crankshaft, does the F40 have a normal one? | ||||
| franki68 |
the 430 has the most amazing sounding engine from the drivers seat.It is astonishing and made the gallardos I have driven sound like cement mixers. Easily the most exciting car I have driven,and the engine is a large part of that. |