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Listen to the Ferrari California. You May Need a Cigarette Afterwards.
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Justin Berkowitz
(IC: employee)
Published: June 4th, 2008
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This is just prurient, base, vulgar car lust in action. I have no cutting analysis to offer you, no insightful realizations, not even a regurgitated press release from a manufacturer intent on wowing you with numbers. Nope, it's just the sounds of Ferrari's new California model. OK, a couple of stats. The engine giving pistonheads eargasms is a fresh 4.3-liter V8 with direct injection, making 460 horsepower, routed to a seven-speed dual clutch transaxle. I think the Ferrari California is a good looking model but it's not breathtaking, and the folding hardtop is the kind of embarrassing mainstream compromise that should be outside of Ferrari's brand profile. Nevertheless, it's coming. (Make your own damn pun.)
Published June 4th, 2008 3:41 PM
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i gotta say the sound of my 98 mustang cobra was better, the current Bullit sounds better, and my 99 camaro SS sounded WAY better. but of course they don't have the fancy horse in the grill!
Why'd Ferrari name their car after the one state that hates it? Well, at least California's politicians and tree-huggers do, car buyers don't.
Such evocative sounds - beautiful, thank you. and thank you ChuckR the Bugatti T35B is well worth watching.