Top Gear has listed its choices for top 7 Ferrari's in 7 decades of Ferrari... F355 clinched the 90's slot. So it beats out the F50 and others... https://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/new-ferrari-portofino-is-here-so-weve-rounded-up-seven-great-ferraris-from-seven-decades Robb
Neat! The 250gt is gorgeous. I wonder how the top works. Nice that it's clean and nearly disappears when down rather than a big couch behind you
Correct choice in that the 355 is clearly the best Ferrari of the '90s, but a pretty lame and lazy article to say the least. I despair at what passes for journalism these days. It's all click-bait that could have been "written" by five year olds.
"Launched in 1989, the 348 had garnered some of the worst reviews in the companys history." LOL. Revisionist history at its best.
Yep. The 348 was loved by most journalists at the time (including Clarkson). It was without doubt a massive step up from the 308/328. It was only when the NSX, Luca, and then the 355 all appeared that they decided to change the narrative. Again, while I agree the 355 was the best Ferrari of the 90s, journalism these days is a total joke.
Every article I read about the initial 348 at the time was very critical of the car's faults. It was not well loved, by any means, in the USA. "But the styling - with its side strakes and black grille over the tail-lights are straight out of the Testarossa - looked old-hat when launched, and the nervous handling of the earliest cars soon earned the 348 a poor reputation."
I don't remember any articles good or bad on the 348 in the US press. Maybe someone can post pdf's or links... Robb
Not to go off the rails, but to contrast... "There is nothing like it. It communicates so richly, involves you so completely. And, when you have finished driving it cocooned in that exquisite cockpit you can get out and feast your eyes on one of the loveliest cars ever designed. Gavin Green, Car Magazine Oct 1990 Crawling out of Paris in the thick of the densest French traffic jam any of us can ever recall, three things about our convoy were already becoming apparent. The First how much more attention and affection the French public had in reserve for the Ferrari was perhaps predictable... ...the crowds that gathered like bees to honey wherever and whenever we parked it, and the comparative lack of enthusiasm for the other three, still came as something of a shock. It's the Honda's body control and its meaty yet beautifully positive steering that allows it to feel so natural through the Esses of Le Mans; both seem peerless. Until you try the Ferrari. In the 348 you've got the same degree of body control, the same iron tautness through the corners, but the steering lighter than the Honda's but with much more feedback lifts it clear of even the mighty NSX at La Sarthe. "Because it is so well honed as an all-rounder, so easy to live with, it misses out on that last 10 per cent of pure, raw thoroughbred sports car appeal that makes the Ferrari such a deliciously rich experience. Partly it is the steering; the NSX's is very good, the 348's exquisite. And partly it is the extra sharpness of the Ferrari's chassis, which is that crucial fraction more responsive to your inputs than not only the NSX but also any other supercar this side of £100,000 we can think of. Stephen Sutcliffe, Autocar Magazine Jul 1993 "To many, it was Best in Show." "One of the ten best cars in the world" Road & Track, Sept 1989 "Thoroughly irresistible." better looking, stronger, faster successor to the enormously successful 308/328" Paul Dean, LA Times July 1990 "...this car has some of the best steering, possibly the best, that I have ever sat behind." Henry Catchpole, EVO Sept 2016 ...and many more in the day, as well as in recent years. But, that's probably for a different thread.
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I don't have mine still (my 3rd one died back in '02) but it is still my favorite phone that I ever owned. Other owners get it, while everyone else looks at me like I'm insane.
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