I know that there are faster cars but you are right in the fact that just the prestige of driving such a stunning car is much better.

I don’t care about its faults (assuming you consider them faults), I will take the F355 over most anything else.

You clearly don’t get it. Otherwise you wouldn’t be comparing a Ferrari with modified japanese rattleboxes.

I’ve driven a 360 Spyder. I’ve had that flat-crank V8 screaming in my left ear at over eight grand. I totally get it.

The exterior looks a bit ‘plastic’ next to a 360. And too many others have copied the taillights over the years. Of course the 360 has these as well, but they are a little squared of in those if you look closely…somehow, it all looks better on the 360 if you ask me.

Also, being European, I’m inclined to like the GTB more than the GTS and the Spider…

You can still pull a decent amount of tail in a Prancing Horse.

You’d have to be really lucky to do that with a Japanese/American hybrid bastard machine. :D

Just before the RX-7 walks over the Ferrari in the subsequent drag race…accompanied by laughter and a bearly audible “loooooser…”

I’ve driven an F430 (and freaking loved it,) and ridden around a track in a 360 Spider (my all-time favorite.) I’d love to take out a 355 some time. $1K seems a bit steep for that car though, given its purchase price.

You can drive an F430 (along with a few other supercars) for a few hours for only $300 with Supercar Sensation if you live in or around NC. Totally worth that price.

Man…
I dont know If im getting old or stuff is changin around me..

But a 355 / 360 going back to testarossa.. are far more interesting to look at and covet, than what Ferrari is making now.

Specially with the California and the paddle shifter / auto they have going into the cars.

Around here i see maybe one Ferrari per year, and this years quota was filled yesterday when i saw a red California in a parking garage at the mall. Stayed for a smoke and waited for it to start and drive away but it was really disappointing. Even in a concrete parking garage. Barely heard a thing. It did look nicer than in pictures though.

A Cayman with a drop top is the Boxster. If you want more power, get the Boxster S. Can’t imagine you need more than the power the Cayman S or Boxster S has, given that the car is relatively light.

The prices these cars go for now look awfully attractive, but $20-30K to drive 10K miles? I don’t think so.
Renting makes sooooooooooo much more sense, and I’d likely enjoy the car more that way, since I’d be highly motivated to get the most out of it.

Back in the late 90’s, before I had ever driven a ‘cool’ car, I rented a BMW M roadster for a day. It cost me about $250, and was the best 24 hours of my life up to that point!! I drove the hell out of that car, it was so much fun.

I’m thinking about getting a sports car soon, and right now the Porsche Cayman S is high on my list, I just wish it had a little more oomph, and perhaps a drop top.

What I want to know is this: Will a rental F355 experience ruin my future/present performance (G35, RX8, used BMW-3) ownership experience?

Or will I be driven to work that much harder? (Open a part time meth lab?)

Or will I just say f*** driving anything? And go back to a used Exploder?

I thought they were less expensive… in the 25-30K range.

That car is among the few Ferrari I like, being the others the F40, 288GTO and the 512TR.

I can’t even can dream now with such money…

It was a beautiful summer day and the owner decided to test either my nerve or my driving skills. He took off in his NSX. I didn’t know the name or location of the restaurant (not to mention this was the South and I am black): I had no choice but to follow suit.

We roared down the highway at over 100 mph in the middle of the day. He never came close to losing me and I felt safer and more in control of that ferrari at 100 than most cars at 50. Best drive of my life. If I was going before the proverbial firing squad and had one last wish, one of my thoughts would be of driving this car on a bright, warm summer day.

That said, I wouldn’t want to own one. The maintenance costs are obscene. The owner told me how bottoming out the car at a dip in his driveway entrance cost $3000 to fix. But I wouldn’t mind having a friend who lent me the keys from time to time.

What did it for me?

When it screamed through San Francisco piloted by Cage in The Rock. Never took a liking to yellow cars until then.