Y’all ready to impersonate 12-year-old boys? Cool. Hunter S. Thompson had a quick question he used to sum people up, “Beatles or Stones?” I’m thinking “Ferrari or Lamborghini?” is the automotive corollary. So let’s stop and think for a minute — both makes offer gobs of power from exotic engines, savage shapes and the type of instant prestige you can only hope to buy. Ferraris are pretty sweet. I mean, the racing history alone might grab a few (or many) votes. From the 166M to the 250 GTO to the 333 SP the results speak louder than my best metaphors. And that’s not even taking into account F1. And what about the road cars? Daytona? 288 GTO? F40? F430? Etc, etc? Like wow, dude. But then you have the raging bulls, the supercars that Ferruccio Lamborghini built specifically to spite Enzo and his long standing “the customer is always wrong” policy. I’m talking Miura, Countach, Diablo, Murcielago and Gallardo here. Not to mention the LM002 and Espada. There’s also the fact that most Ferrari owners would happily pledge Omega House. I’m not saying that Lamborghini owners are necessarily Delta Tau Chi material, but what do you think Bluto, D Day and Otter would drive?
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Is it just me or does this feel analgous to Toyota or Honda, or Benz or BMW? I’ll go with Ferrari on this one, though I’d really take either.
Of the two, I would prefer a Ferrari. Other cars in the similiar category…I really like Astons. As a DD: Porsche.
Ferrari > Lamborghini, for me. Lambos are just so vulgar.
Justin Berkowitz: Exactly!
Ferrari overall. But, the Gallardo Spyder is my favorite modern car between the two.
Ferrari…I still get all twitter-pated when I see a nice example of a 308/328…
Porsche.
You can actually drive one everyday and take it to the track on the weekends.
Lamborghini drivers are like Corvette owners, only with more money. I don’t have the prerequisite gold chains and chest hair to own either, so I’ll have to go with Ferrari.
FERRARI which should be obvious. The history is what I love along with the great cars and engine sounds. Any one who has read my posts knows I’m an Alfa whore and the fact Ferrari probably wouldn’t exist today if it wasn’t for Alfa Romeo is just icing on the cake.
Lambos a real nice but come on, their history springs from tractors, kind of crude.
Ferrari!
No question about it!
Justin said it all!
I fell in love with Ferrari the first time I saw Thomas Magnum roar away in a 308 GTS. My God that was a beautiful car.
Ferrari is class, Lamborghini is crass.
Lambo. I like underdogs with a dollop of crazy.
I have to oppose. To me, Ferrari will always be the vulgar choice. I mean, quad STACKED tailpipes? This ain’t George Barris workshop…
Miura SV, Espada, Countach LP400, Murcielago, are my favourites. Not the mention the king-of-the-über-hill LM002. Ferraris are for poseurs, Lamborghinis are for men.
Lamborghini is with Hummer as the quintessential Vegas car, it holds no interest for me. I laugh whenever I see a Lambo.
So Ferrari it is although Maranello gets close to the vulgar line from time to time. It doesn’t want to go the way of Bentley (purveyor of fine cars for rappers and drug dealers).
With my own money I’m going to go Maserati before Ferrari (75% of the style and sophistication with none of the negative factors) with Aston a close second.
Ferrari, since they share the same basic engine with the Maserati GT (which is better looking than all the Lambos and Ferraris combined)!!!
Also, Lambos all look alike!
Lamborghini … but one of these:
http://www.samedeutz-fahr.com/lamborghini/
Ferrari, because, like Chris Matthews when he hears Obama speak, when I hear a Ferrari going full bore, I get a “thrill up my leg” (whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean.
Seriously – Ferrari.
Lamborghini. Ferrari didn’t make the Countach, they didn’t make the LM002 and they don’t make any mid-engine cars with more than 8 cylinders.
Ideally I would have a Continental T or Brooklands with a Tremec TR-6060 conversion.
Since the VW purchase of Lamborghini they have become a “dime a dozen” in the NYC area. I would be happier to drive a 1980s Jalpa, Contach, or even LM002 before one of the new orgami designs of today. Somehow Ferraris manage to remain exclusive while Lambos are now treated like those VW Bentleys. You will find Lambos “hanging out” in locations that you will NEVER see a Ferrari. When you see MORE THAN ONE Lambo in the “hood” decked out in “chrome dinner plate wheels” you know something is up!
Certian high end cars appear to just not cut it with the really rich folks and quickly end up as “ghetto queens”. Amoung these cars are:
Bentley TC
Land Rover Range Rover
BMW 645/650/M6
Lamborghini Gallardo
MB AMG G-Wagons
MB CLS
I guess these are the “WTF was I thinking” type of cars that getting dumped within the first year of ownership.
From the amount of these cars I see with the pimp treatment applied it is easy to see that the low resale value allows them to quickly enter the “low-end” used car market popular with those “cash” (not check) shoppers.
I guess folks that buy those “new” Maseratis new must like them because I have yet to see a single Quattroporte or Coupe get “pimped”.
Ferrari….
Prancing horse beats raging bull.
Check mate.
Justin nailed it.
While the Gallardo is definitely a beautiful car, it can’t hold a candle to the F430.
Wingless countache’s are hot!
no_slushbox :
September 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Lamborghini. Ferrari didn’t make the Countach, they didn’t make the LM002 and they don’t make any mid-engine cars with more than 8 cylinders.
Ideally I would have a Continental T or Brooklands with a Tremec TR-6060 conversion.
Slushbox you provide evidence for my argument that Lambo and Bentley go together
I love a number of Lambo’s but most of what I love is really Bertone’s work (OK, the La Moo 2 rocks and I’m not a truck guy).
Ferrari is it at the end of the day, I think it is the multiple championships in…everthing.
The horse has the heritage.
Once heard Ferrucio Lamborghini refered to as a “purveyor of male jewlelry”. Though his jewelry has a substance that similar mindsets (Harley, C3/4 Vette) lack.
Having one of his tractors would be very cool however.
I’ll take one of each if someone is sharing.
Bunter
When I was 12, there were two framed pictures on my wall: A 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda and a Lamborghini Countach. No Ferraris.
I never liked the Diablo though. The Countach as well as the current crop of Lambos look better IMO.
As a child, I thought the Countach was the coolest car out there. But I’ll go with Ferrari now.
I find Ferrari boring as of late. The 612, F430, 599, they’re all great cars, brilliant really, but not very interesting. I parked next to an F430 the other day and didn’t even look twice at it.
Lambos are just more fun. They’re better looking, rarer, more ridiculous, fast, and with AWD won’t kill you. Who cares if it’s 1/10th of a second slower around a track?
You’re driving Highway 1 outside Monterey. Straight up, which would you choose: Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster, or Ferrari 612? Gallardo Spyder or F430? The choice is easy.
Ferrari all the way. Go massa!
nothing like the sound of a V8 at 22k rpm.
Simple
If you’re going to actually drive it more than once a month Lambo, the resales not as high anyway so milin’ one out a bit won’t hurt you
The Ferrari is undoubtedly the more desirable from an ownership experience Maranello- plant-tour-&-drive-a-hotlap-at-Fiorano kinda way. Most history, racing pedigree, etc. However putting more than a 1,000 miles a year on one will destroy even your average millionaire on depreciation and maintenance. I think the 10,000 mile service on a F430 is something like $10,000.
Obviously, we are assuming money is no object, so Ferrari it is. Even though I had a framed picture of a Diablo as a kid (still do actually), I just love the sound that a Ferrari engine makes, and who wouldn’t want to be Thomas Magnum ;-).
Ferrari, since they share the same basic engine with the Maserati GT (which is better looking than all the Lambos and Ferraris combined)!!! Saw one in the parking lot of the hotel I was staying at this weekend in Cupertino. I saw it while I was driving out and had to stop the car and walk over to check it out. Absolutely geourgeous. My wife thought it was quite possibly the best looking car that she had ever seen. While I prefer the race car styling of the Ford GT, I really couldn’t argue with her.
Mark Morrison
The only thing that Lamborghini and Bentley have in common is that they both made much more interesting cars before VW bought them.
And if you think only classy reputable people buy Ferraris look up Enzo crash.
My favorite supercars came from former tractor manufacturers Ford, Aston-Martin(David Brown), Lamborghini, and Porsche (briefly).
But then I love all machines, either moving or set in place.
The Countach was one of the cars that sedused me to love cars when I was a kid. The 202mph Diablo humiliated the only 201mph F40. Still I later learn that Ferraris were better all round cars (though not through experience). Anyhow I’m probably more of a ferrari guy cause I like the 550m and its new iterations. Either way I’m dissapointed in both companies. They need to have more humility and build more down to earth cars.
It’s like asking your choice between Sophia Loren (in her primest of primes) or Paris Hilton….
Paris Hilton for an hour would be fine….presuming a doctor’s visit for an STD test afterwards. But Sophia is a woman who could hold your attention with intelligent conversation, wit, charm and style during the interludes between the….ummmmmm…..test drives.
Sophia is the Ferrari. Paris is Lambo….
Ferrari wins…..going away.
Alas, few of us mortals will have Sophia or Paris, or own a Ferrari or a Lambo….well, OK, more guys will have Paris than own a Lambo…after all they only make 300 per year.
Enzo ruled!
Ferrari! While I respect Lamborghini hugely, the tradition and single minded determination of Enzo Ferrari to succeed in racing in general, and F1 in particular, sometimes at the expense of his company, sways my vote.
Depends when you want it. Doesn’t Ferrari have a 2 year waiting list?
There must be a reason for that.
Lambo. Ferrari feels too…delicate to me somehow. I don’t picture pure violence when I hear a Ferrari engine howling. Lambo does that though. They all look like runway models of the apocalypse, and sound like said models having the best sex of their lives (or mine..if I had a life)
I guess when I’m ready to unload the Mustang, I’ll get another horsey. A prancing horsey.
(In my dreams).
Why even choose? Just get one of each!
@willbodine:
As my friend Michael said when he saw that the man driver our taxicab was named “Mohammed Rabbi”:
You gotta pick a side.
http://blog.cardomain.com/blog/2008/09/underground-rac.html
This is why I like lambos better than ferraris.
whatdoiknow1 :
You nailed it man.
I would take a 288 GTO or an F40 over ANY Lamborghini. It’s a hypercar. Ferrari’s are a supercar.
Lotus Seven please. Ferraris and Lamborghinis have useless things like doors and a roof. Might as well buy a Mercedes sedan.
No surprise to anyone, given two choices I will take Ferrari.
Lamborghini, mainly because the Miura is the most astonishingly beautiful automotive design of the 20th century.
I’ve never liked Ferrari for one main reason – the Enzo mentality (my way or f*** you, customers). That and the proliferation of 30 000$ millionaires in ratty 308s who are the most vehemently fanatical Ferrari devotees and comprise most of the fan/owner’s clubs, even though most couldn’t afford to have a valve adjustment done on their car.
Lambos are wonderful lunacy with no notions of function and wear their hearts on their sleeves. Ferraris are for pompous twits who buy into racing pedigree and snob appeal and pay too much attention to lap times even though their cars rarely see the light of day, let alone track time.
But for my own money, I second the motion for Porsche or Aston.
Well, I want to say neither. Maserati instead. But of the two, Ferrari.
I like Lambo’s brutality but not the marque’s prevailing vulgarity. With occasional missteps (F40, for one) Ferrari has a consistent line of elegantly muscular, expressive cars. Their respective clientèles tell the story.
The day before some knucklehead last weekend demolished a Lambo — and himself — by flinging his Raging Bull off Route 101 in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles at 2:30am, sailing into a 30 foot drop only to be both mangled and immolated in an adjacent parking structure, I got another taste of the Lambo psycho-graphic. I was on the I405 South > I10 West transition ramp, in clear traffic. A Gallardo appeared on rapid approach in my rear view mirror. More powerful and lighter, the Gallardo was the quicker, faster car over my XLR-V, but not nearly so much as the Lambo driver underestimated. Looking ahead, there was a nice wide window to hammer the car through the sweeper and smoothly arc across four sparse lanes to settle into a slot in the fast groove of the I10 West. But for only one of us. The Gallardo pilot was certain he could rocket past me and shut the door, but not so fast. I guess he didn’t notice I was driving a V. With plenty of room I booted the Caddy and pulled away, instead closing the door on him before he could react, and smoothly settled into the slot I intended.
Gallardo had to stumble through clustered traffic, well behind. Like an angry bee, he bulldozed and darted his way through traffic to slide in behind me, all but kissing my tailpipes. Shaking his fist and appearing to be yelling in my rear view, at first break he shot out to the right for the express purpose of flipping me a big F-U.
Contrast the Ferrari guys. Driving up Pacific Coast Highway from Laguna to Newport Beach a few years ago in an SVT Cobra convertible, I found myself at a traffic light in the front row, between an F360 and a Maranello. Beautiful! Acknowledging each other, we took off briskly, not racing, to wind out our cars. I toyed with the Italians until they both asserted their position in the automotive hierarchy. But up ahead in Corona del Mar, I pulled in for fuel. In minutes, both Ferraris pulled in to ask for a peek at the SVT’s hand-wrenched 4 cam V8. Gentlemen both, they distracted me with an engaging 45 minute gas stop.
Ferrari by miles.
Phil
I liked the older Ferraris, but the new Lambos. The Daytona, the Testarossa, those were awesome cars. Heck, even the Mondial had a lot of great points. Yet somehow I just can’t get excited about the newer Ferraris. Of course, this all about looks. But still.
The new Lamborghinis, though, they are all clean and modern, perhaps less “bull” than before but also supposedly much better cars. I like the Gallardo a lot. Not so much the Reventon, that’s just an exercise in being outre.
The thing is, this little rivalry is less relevant than ever, as there are so many other makes nowadays. Of course Porsche, but also Zonda, Konigsegg, Noble, even Lotus coming back on the low end… Heck, Nissan and Chevy make cars that may not have the snob appeal but match or beat the performance. What’s the point?
I liked the older Ferraris, but the new Lambos.
Exactly.
The newer Lamborghinis just encompass what I want in an overpriced Italian supercar. They’re good looking, fast, they sound great, and while they may not be perfect track weapons, who cares? Track days are rare for me, and if I’m driving Lamborghinis during the day I can afford to piece together a Caterham. Besides, thanks to Ferrari, Alfa Romeo (my favourite Italian marque) isn’t allowed to make anything all-out fast anymore.
If I could have any new car, though, I’d go for a Morgan.
Ferrari, a hundred times over. I don’t particularly like any modern Lambo OR Ferrari–the last gorgeous Ferrari was the 288 GTO, in my opinion… but I hate the excess of Lamborghini. The Miura was one of the most gorgeous cars ever made–then after that, there was crap for about 30 years, followed by the reasonably attractive Murcielago.
While I covet a 412 like no one’s business, The Countach has always had the rest of my heart.
Lamborghini.