SHAPE VS PERFORMANCES ?

For me its as follows:

1) Looks
2) intangible chemistry between driver and car
3) performance


I dont go to the track and Im not a 16 yr old street racer so what do i care if some other car out performs mine ?

 

Sometimes I try to find a "perfect car" personally although I am aware that no car is perfect.


I can still remember that I sat in F40 6 years ago.
the friend of my dad drove and I loved F40
I still prefer F40 because it offers the shape and performance.

In contrast to F40, Enzo is ugly to me.
maybe, enzo offers much better performance, maybe.

 

+1, But, I do take mine to the track.

 

For me, function follows form. I don't care if it's the ugliest car in existence, but when I am behind the wheel it better make the hairs on my neck rise.

 

You mean form follows function

 

I'll never use even a fraction of the performance here in the wastelands of the midwest, so for me it's all about look and feel.

 

+1

 

Look and feel for me also.

 

Ditto, although the performance has a great deal of influence.

 

+2 Nothing quite like the look and feel of a Ferrari.

 

Feel is everything to me. The feel of my 430 is unlike any car I have ever driven. I think it's a bad ass looking car as well, BUT the 360 is a better looking car. For that matter it doesn't get any better to me than a 365 as far as looks.

 

+3

And there haven't been any cars since the 328/F40 era that really grab me. I think the Porsche 997 (all forms) still looks decent, but after 44 years or so it's hard to hit the ceiling with excitement over it. The cars I really love are all way behind the performance curve: 328, Daytona, Dino 246, Porsche 356 Speedster, etc. Maybe the F40 combines all three of your factors.

 

Shape, mechanical design, performance and the feeling.........

When it comes to these qualities I think Porsche does an excellent job. The design, engineering and executing of the 911 have always been an automobile icon.


Unfortunately for me Porsche comes off as being mechanical and lacks the passion as other cars. To me a Porsche is nothing more than an automobile engineered to be very very good at what it does. A Ferrari hardly qualifies as an 'automobile' in my books. If I had my say in house design, I would park a Ferrari in my livingroom.