F430 in Jakarta

Nice. I was just there from Mon-Wed. I can't imagine driving a Ferrari in Jakarta though...

 

Just need to plan your rute and avoid rush hour.

 

What do they sell over there? Must be close to $1M USD!!

 

Nope ... The showroom asked for about USD$ 500,000 ... but still negotiable...
Last time they asked for USD $ 1.2 M for the car only. With document will be around USD $1.8 M ... AFAIK there are 2 units of Enzo in Jakarta.

 

With no motor? That's insane! These waiting lists are getting out of hand.

 

If you want motor then they will offer "Singer" brand ... Free of charge ...
amazing isn't it?? ...

 

I guess you'd have to know where to go in Jakarta to make driving a Ferrari actually fun. Are there any good roads outside the city you can take to really nail it?

 

I drove my CS for only 2 days in Jakarta then brought it to Surabaya.
At night you can drive quite fast on Jakarta the toll road. Some crazy friends told me they can go top speed at night pass 11pm on the toll road near airport.

2 days ago I was driving my friend modified Supra TT and pass 200 km/h several times at around 2 pm on Jakarta toll road. Quite fun but have to be carefull cause some spot were not smooth.
Maybe the new toll road to Bandung suppose to be ok.

 

The road to the airport is not so bad but it's pretty short for those kinds of speeds. Even when I drive to Malaysia it's tough to reach much more than 240 unless you know the roads really well. Keep in mind my car isn't a Ferrari. I'm sure it would be easier with a new Ferrari to hit that kind of speed. But I need more space to accelerate there.

Anyway there is way more road in Jakarta than there is in Singapore!

 

If you want to go with crazy speed in jakarta or surabaya, better to know the road well and memories where the bad spot, jumpy little brigde and so on.

The toll road near the airport can be consider as a good one in Indo. Malaysia toll road are way better than Indo, especially those wide toll road near KL airport. I think I can go all the way if no police around ..

The toll road I went (heading to Serang) a few days ago actually much worse compare to the one near airport. Once I pass 200kmh I have to break, wait for smooth surface and full throttle again and break... Lucky for me, my friend modded Supra TT accelerate quite fast to 200+ kmh.

Patro, where you can go speeding in Singapore?

 

Well in Singapore it's hard to speed. If I want to do 200+ I go to Malaysia, as I'm doing on the 24th. Here I sort of speed a bit but try not to break the law too much. A very hard acceleration to the speed limit only lasts a second but is fun. Or just accelerating from about 80-120 in 2nd and 3rd gears is cool and not TOO illegal. At least all the roads are smooth though...one place I like to go is Marina South but there are a lot of cops there it seems. The first day I had my car I went there and really sped a lot. I've seen a few Ferraris there too. But there are way too many cops here to do anything fun. So the answer is Malaysia.

 

Answer's in Malaysia. Right on the button though the best time to do it would be in the 0700-0800. Cooler and denser air makes more power ( N/A only). Three places where most speed freak relishes.
1. Tangkak-Yong Peng stretch of the NKVE.
2. Bidor-Tapah stretch on the NKVE. 5km of solid straight as far as the eyes can see.
3. The aforementioned KLIA to the Toll booth.

Can get to license losing speeds easy but the thoughts of the beautiful crankcase bottoming out on the undulations make you think twice. Above an indicated 250 the pits and rises feels like jackhammer.

Oh yes, we can get ' vital' information on the whereabouts of the TC too...

 

Patro, I heard from some of my Singaporean friends that at certain hour (around 11 pm) the police changing shift and can go speeding at certain road for few minutes in Spore. Is it true?

 

one time I forgot to break when passing bumpy small bridge on Surabaya toll road at around 180kmh in my CS .... a bit scary ... I think the car flew a bit from the ground. The next pass slow down to about 140 kmh ...

Are the first & second places from your list close to KL?

 

Yeah, like Tifosi said if you are lucky you may get some good info on where the cops are...but in Singapore I'm not so sure about the shift changing thing. I should check it out. If you really are serious about speeding for sure Malaysia is the best. But I've heard of people doing some recon here with walkie-talkies to ensure there are no cops. There are some places where they can't wait though, like some long bridges such as that linking the AYE and ECP...at least that's what I think. I'm not as aggressive as I used to be so no testing the cops tonight. I've been very lucky; only one summons and that was only $120 and 6 points for doing 120 kmh.

I know what you mean about the car jumping over a bump. I did it at 240 in Johor near Tuas the first week of owning my car. That was SCARY!

 

It True,
and races are usually done ard 11pm at Lim Chu kang,
as the police are changing shifts,
usually done up Japanese cars

 

I thought that was more or less phased out...too many cops. But maybe it's back. Orchard Gudang seems to be coming back too...

 

yeah,
and Ivan 288,
is happily playing with the Ricers, in his toys

 

Tangkak-Yong Peng is closer to JB, Bidor-tapah's about 150km from KL.
The flying feeling over bumps are termed 'Bump Steer' and normally affects cars with minimal spring travel..like ours. Patro's leap of faith at 240 is frightening to say the least but a 147GTA's spring travel is definitely more than any 355/360/CS and the car will not lauch itself airborne as early as ours due to the spring/damper's extension.
On a bike, if you experience bump steer, it'll be followed by tank slapping and more often than not a trip to the hospital!

 

What car did you drive when you jump at 240?

Lucky for us if police caught us, they can be bribe ... ...and not too expensive ... but touch wood I never get caught for speeding in Jakarta or Surabaya.

 

hemmm ... that's why I saw several heavily modded cars in Garage R, BKS, & so on.

 

Iskandar, still in China?

How fast you ever go in your f355 on the toll road?

 

That was in my 147 GTA (Alfa Romeo)...it was just on the bridge seam with the road. Not a big bump an normal speeds, but at 240 it was.

 

Same old..same old. Still in CN Setiawan. Fastest on a the NKVE ( tangkak-Yong Peng ) was 265km/h with still some pedal travel left but the particular stretch started to undulate and I bottled out. KLIA to tollgate, the fastest was 250-ish at 0400 in the morning.