Originally Posted by master_jcp
I am not sure about the A8. See every week 1-3. Nice car, nice sound, but if I see a Aston I say wow but there, ok the new Audi, but in a half year you see them like Porsche 997`s.
Mag, whats about a Aston-Martin DBS?
Here is the 200k$ beast.
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Well master_jcp, Since you were the last one to hit my car post, I'll address this to you first and then all my other 'friends' here at what was once the good 'ole'
Jabbas World.
I don't know what caused the transition but the world changes everyday, every hour and every minute...... and so do I.
Just when I thought I was done buying cars for a while because of my love with my present car line-up, I went into a 'Hallucinogenic' heat for of all things..... a
Ferrari Enzo!!! 
Why do I say 'hallucinogenic'? Are you 'kiddin'? Even me, the 'lowly'
old Magwheel (I did just turn 60 this year), can have dreams of things that we think will probably never come true, right? Well I must have rubbed the right
magic lamp because in the last week of April, after searching 'high and low' and daydreaming endlessly, my impossible, improbable, inconceivable and unimaginable dream came true! I bought a
2003 Ferrari Enzo! 
Yeah, I possibly could have bought an
Enzo some time back if I would have sold three or four of my other cars, something I vouched I would never do, but somehow I was able to work things out.... and
have my cake and eat it too!
She's beautiful, Red with Red leather interior. She is only a one and a 'half' car owner car with 3087 miles on her ticker. Yes, there were some other Enzos out there with lower miles but they were obviously higher priced and most were in California and Florida. Seeing and feeling and hearing them was a little tough since I'm afraid to fly! The one I got was here in Ohio and I was able to rub my 'little grubby' hands all over the car. When the guy started in up,
I wet my pants! OMG!
My Girlfriend and I took her out Thursday night to a restaurant and it was unreal. The
sound, the
ride, the
feel and the
adrenalin rush was absolutely fantastic! The F1 is a manual shift 'only' upwards and like my 06 Green Murcielago was, she'll eventually shift downwards by herself although not in a performance mode. You have to be going fairly slow for her to downshift into the next lower gear. Lots of facts and figures to come when I'm able to evaluate her a lot better.
I'm really happy to be back here with something decent to talk about so I'm not boring all of you. Give me a little more seat time with her, a week or so, and I'll do a review and hopefully post some really sharp pictures of the
'little Red' Enzo taken on a nice, bright sunny day. Take care everyone, Magwheel
p.s. If I may, I'd like to add two quotes that I guess will fit my and hopefully someday your situation. One is very famous and one is anonymous.
1)
"When you dream, dream BIG, and never give up. There's no law that says you have to dream small. Your dream is just that, yours!"
2)
“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” Robert Francis Kennedy ( U.S. attorney general and adviser, 1925-1968)