Does he have the strenght of a tiny girl? The steering and clutch are not that hard. I wonder if he ever drove a Pantera. THAT IS HARD.
LOL...the funniest thing was him pointing out the latch on the 993 glove box. I was so sad that he did not discover what the center button did on the Ferrari. Talk about the best glove box in any car (and he didn't even know what he was missing)
he is evidently a ferrari novice. he goes on and on about how difficult the 512tr is to drive....i consider it one of my easier cars to drive - better not get him into the 512bbi ! then he thinks 20 years old is vintage?! my daily drivers are nearly that old. typical of millenials tho i guess, where anything older than last week is passe. this video reminded me of an episode with one of my friends....he was a hard core porsche only guy and he had exactly that 993 turbo in silver. i had recently picked up exactly that 512tr, but in red. and we were on our way from london to some race track somewhere for a track day. well we essentially raced each other all the way there. he was ahead, and i was always behind since i did not know the way, but he was always trying to leave me in the dust - never happened. i was always glued to his bumper. when we got there he came over to me astonished, that despite the size of the 512 i was able to keep up with him. then we parked the cars and went to the briefing. when we came out, there was a crowd around my car, and not a single person around his - that kind of irked him. then we spent part of the day in a 355, and that was the last straw. a month later he had sold the porsche and bought a 355. the power of ferrari!
LOL! I think he was scared some little Mario lookin dude was gonna pop out and chew his ass for pushing it.
ross have your friend with the porsche and you with the ferrari have been also on the track? then he would get much more larger eyes nice story
i think i let him drive the 512tr once. he liked it, but took the 355, and then he bought a 550. most people dont think of the 512tr as a car that would be fast around a track, and frankly it is not a track weapon. but it can hold its own, and catches up if the straights are long enough !
If you haven't driven a Testarossa or 512 the clutch and gear shift can be jarring. He was playing it up a little for the video but honesty pull someone who has never driven one and they will think it's broken. Meanwhile we all just skip 2nd for a bit and love the sound of the gated shifting. As for the power steering or lack there of, it's tough at low speeds and dreadful at standstill, I don't care how much you hit the gym. PS- it's the better car of the 2 of course....by a mile
Exactly! I hate the dead, overboosted steering in most cars today. The steering and the clutch pedal effort in a TR are heavy, but they're nowhere close to as difficult to operate as he makes them out to be.
Everything is light and easy in todays cars. Youngers have no clue of what is hard to drive. As soon as there is a small effort to be put in doing something they complain. Put them behind the wheel of an old truck with no power steering and no power brakes a hard clutch and a two speed rear axle. The TR is a relaxing task.
I used to have a 82 FJ40, its been in the family since then and I daily drove it in 2015 & 2016. No power steering was a nice drive.
When he drove the testarossa he had an easier time. He said that the clutch was lighter and the steering was a bit lighter. His view changed a bit. He liked it a lot.
I don't think Doug really had that hard a time of the steering and clutch, but made it out to be soooo hard to give people who have never driven anything like it a sense for how "manual", how "analog" it is. What I really enjoyed was how he "got it". The feel and the sound. It's like watching Harry Metcalfe in his video when he winds it out and hears the sound. He's grinning ear-to-ear. Somebody said Doug was going to do a Testarossa video soon. I'm really looking forward to it. G
Here's Why the Ferrari Testarossa Is Shooting Up in Value - Autotrader here is the link to the testarossa video and his article. I had a ton of fun showing him the car.
