As I promised: some owrds, pics and vids after first F430 Spider drive.
Did about 150 km with the car, some autostrada, some local roads. Unfortunately roads were not really good choice, not curvy enough, bu what can you do ... I didn't choose them.
Anyway: the car is absolutely fantastic to drive. It (for me) only has 2 drawbacks: I can't fit into it properly, although I'm "only" 1.9 m tall, and when you put it in reverse in beep all the time really annoyingly ...
Level of grip is nothing special for this kind of car (supoercar), but I was pleasantly suprised by how easy it is to drive really fast. Turns in intantly, you can feel wihich end is going to let go first, rear slides really predictably and controlably. Roundabouts are real fun, but even in 150+ km/h corners ikt's easy to go to the limit, because you can feel what is going to happen.
But the most amazing thing: the sound. It's an opera. Variable lenght intake, variable exhaust (there is a photo of bypass valve whivch opens and slose secondary pipes ...), there are at least 20 diffreent sounda, plus all the overrun crackling ... I thinh i shifted waaaaay to much (although engine feel ind of dead under 3500 rpm) because of that.
Brakes? CCM (carbon ceramic), braking from 280 kph (that was the top speed, autostrada was too busy to go for claimed 310+, although it tried, belive me
) to 80 is a snap. cant make them fade ...
A few pics:
Exhaust bypass valve
Temp. license plate, basically they (Ferrari) issue their own ...
You know what that is ...
In the trunk (in front, of course) there is place for 2 airline carry-on suitcases and some more. You also get tire kit and this tools/fuses... set.
Sorry, forgot to rotate that. ANyway, F430 sign is only on drivers mirror.
CCM and 19 inch wheel (235 front, 285 back).
You can get high-res pics by removing "-med" from
link/URL ...
Some vids:
http://www.mobisux.com/album/data/500/15921430_280.MOV
On autostrada, from beggining of 2nd gear to ...
http://www.mobisux.com/album/data/500/15921430_back.MOV
On autostrada ...
http://www.mobisux.com/album/data/500/15921430_LC.MOV
Start with launch control (not too complicated, but if you have too heavy foot, there is a lot of tire smoke)
http://www.mobisux.com/album/data/50...1f430s_098.avi
This is how most of the non-autostrada roads looked like, traffic was prety bad, but fortunately 490 hp deals with that ... Just don't ask what speed are we talking about ... Sound is a bit bad, my colleague's camera is not really good at that ...
Enjoy (and unfortunately I'm not going to BMW M6 launch or Maserati Cambiocorsa Trofeo (race car) test drive, I'm too busy
And a happy b-day, Jabba!
SFDMALEX: please move to pics or vids section if necesarry, didn't know where to put it ...
F430 Spider drive
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