F50, why all the complaints?

[ducati998]

i want to hear form anyone who has been in an f50 and agrees with me that the vibrations from the engine being bolted directly to the tub are not too harsh and that the car as a whole is not as brutal as it is said to be.

[PATo355]

Never ride in it ... just got in it once and saw it on the street some many others ...

[ducati998]

i recently rode in one at a track and at no point did i feel uncomfortable, even at 8000rpm. it's a misunderstood car i believe.

[Chaos in 1983!]

lucky bastard....

[cho_888]

i recently rode in one at a track and at no point did i feel uncomfortable, even at 8000rpm. it's a misunderstood car i believe.

Don't forget to mension that your ride can at a cost! And as you have told me you dont know what ll the fuss is about. Do you think that that million air expect super cars to ride like s-class mercs?

[ducati998]

tame yourself choey, my ride came at a $400 cost that is correct. would you be willing to part with that for a ride in an f50, i know you weren't last night. ofcourse they don't expect tat, that is why I'm saying stop whingeing about it, its a purist car and should have all the rough edges, yet I don't think it does have rough edges, unlike say an s2000. the s2000 lacks the purist part but picks up the rough part. lol, just kidding mate.

[cho_888]

yeah i may have to join you there next year! why dont you tell everyone what the car sounds like, you can do those nice 360 sounds you were doing last night....oh yeah it dosnt sounds right whe you smashed :lol: :lol:

oh yeah thanks for getting me out of school!

[possessed_beaver]

can u ride in a F50 in the eastern states?
thats awsome
i saw the motor magazine where going to borrow a F50, and try and get it to 300km/h, but diden't end up getting to borrow one.

[cho_888]

yeah over on the "better side of the country" you go get rides in F50 on 1 day a year at calder race track.

[ducati998]

If you want I can give you the number of the people that organise it, hopefully we ill have an enzo there next year.

[Fleischmann]

The specs are great, but the car is simply ugly.

[Ivanhoe]

i recently rode in one at a track and at no point did i feel uncomfortable, even at 8000rpm. it's a misunderstood car i believe.

I have no experience driving it nor have i heard anything about it from somebody else. However wasn't the F50 meant for racing in the gt1 class? they backed out cuz Porsche (hehe) was too strong with their gt1. no? bah i have no clue what im talking about anyway... just picked up that peice of info not too long ago.

[crasherror]

The used the f50 as the base for the 333SP ferrari. The Enigine at least.

[sikx5]

are you serious???.....$400 for a ride in f50??....omg...im coming down to melbourne for the F1 next year so i will have to organise a ride in the f50. Hell Yes!!!!

[ducati998]

yep, only $400. well "only" is a relative term of course. I mean if i weren't obsessed with the f50 I wouldn't part with the money but it would appear as though I am. It isn't the grand prix weekend though. it is like about a month or two after. I will find out the date and piost it to you if you like sikx5

[Fluxlo]

I've never had a ride in one, but i love the f50. But the reason that it wasn't as much of a success as the f40 or the enzo is most likely because it wasn't a clear step forward. The enzo just obliterates the f40 and f50 in performance, and general supercar stature. The F50, which came a good 6-8 years after the F40, wasn't really that much better. The concept design was beautiful on paper (f1 car for the road, based off of alan prost's 1989 or 1990 (i think) f1 ferrari), but too many compromises (ie, regulations that would make it street legal like noise, and emissions) made it alot less impressive than people expected it to be. It's sad, because the car was still mighty impressive in my eyes.

[cho_888]

i love the look of the F50. Its not a luxury car we must remmeber. Its a car thats been "paired to the bone" and is make to car fast and corner even faster. It did what it was built to do, people just think for that sort of money you would get more that a powerful lotus elise with a massive engine.

[KaBlookie]

The used the f50 as the base for the 333SP ferrari. The Enigine at least.

...isnt it the other way around? the 333 is much older than the F50, so if anything, the F50 would have used stuff (ideas, etc) from the 333, not the other way around.

simply with my experience seeing one, lol and taking like 3812479 pics of it in the ferrari dealer, it looks like somethig that would not have a very compliant ride at all, and it makes sense, cuz...well it's not supposed to. It's meant to go around a track, very fast. that's it.

[maalox]

I have no experience driving it nor have i heard anything about it from somebody else. However wasn't the F50 meant for racing in the gt1 class? they backed out cuz Porsche (hehe) was too strong with their gt1. no? bah i have no clue what im talking about anyway... just picked up that peice of info not too long ago.


The rules changed just as they were about to enter factory F50 GTs. Sad really because it was the first chance to see just how race-worthy the Ferrari supercars were in factory trim (F40s were all entered privately). (Hopefully the Maserati Enzo racer thingy will go forward.) The two finished cars were both sold to private owners for trackday use. There's some videos of them floating around (think I saw them in the video links section a while back). Pretty fantastic cars--complete with 10 000 rpm redline!