I will freely admit that I am ever more interested in Ferraris (except the California!), since they have become more of a complete car and less of just the myth.
The most memorable aspect I learned from my first car magazines (early/mid eighties) was that the Countach couldn't do 200 mph, like every lay person would have you believe. This knowledge quickly got me off of the Ferrari/Lambo poster bandwagon and dropped me straight into the comforting knowledge that Porsches were much more than odd looking sport cars. They worked and they worked (on track) far longer than any of their competitors could. That's why they have won Lemans 24 hrs so many times.
All that being said, now that Ferrari has filled in a lot of the blanks that Porsche had figured out decades prior; if you can afford the jump in price, why not go for a car that looks and sounds great as well as being fast and resonably reliable?
However, since I have not driven either a 997 GT3 RS nor a F430 Scuderia, I wouldn't be able to decide until after I had driven both at speed on road and track, but I remain open-minded...
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