Ferrari Testarossa - Value / trends and driving impressions

Ah! Small World! Ok, what's the deal?

 

He missed the best part if the strakes. That they are alternating thicknesses to look the same thickness when viewing from the side. An optical illusion.

The slow windows had me laughing out loud.

 

Nice attitude. Don't need to walk on eggshells. Can't you just have a little sense of humor? Geeze...

 

So...i am intrigued now. Minor thing but he makes a point of pushing the up button and the windows go down. If I push the up on mine the windows do indeed go up. Which is normal?

 

I'll try....

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Just inverted wires. Amazing how some of the mechanics that work on these cars are careless. How can you finish a job and leave it like this?

This point also show how this guy know nothing about cars. He's just having fun driving them and making comments.

 

Same color combo as my 400i 5-speed. Grey looks great on a TR....esp with red.

 

Yeah, Doug is a bit annoying. I don't get some of his flabbergasted expressions on things that don't quite deserve the reaction. Why did he spend time talking about how the mousetrap seatbelts are an "Italian car quirk"? I mean come on man. No labels on the door handles? Come on...

Great to see and hear a grey on red TR though!

 

keep in mind... the mouse seatbelts have nothing to do with 'Italian' anything, let alone quirks.

automatic restraints were mandated by US law.

but...
don't burst Doug's life in Happyland.

rgds,
Vincenzo

Wikipedia:
"In 1984, the Reagan Administration reversed its course,[48] though in the meantime the original deadline had been extended; Elizabeth Dole, then Transportation Secretary, proposed that the two passive safety restraints be phased into vehicles gradually, from vehicle model year 1987 to vehicle model year 1990, when all vehicles would be required to have either automatic seat belts or driver side air bags."

 

Yes, I knew that.....I thought everyone knew that. My 92 Corrado had them when I had it back in 95. (only car I've ever owned with them actually..) Hence, I'm not sure what Doug was thinking by even going down that route in the video. Wasn't even funny.

Anyway. Again, beautiful car...

 

ummmmm....
apparently everybody knows - EXCEPT Doug

agreed - the car looks GREAT.

cheers,
vincenzo

 

... except for that missing cigarette lighter!

 

Seriously, for someone calling everyone else too sensitive he sure seems sensitive about what a random guy on the internet thinks about his car...

 

Nah. His videos are good.

 

The cigarette lighter is in the center compartment so I can use my phone charger. I find it funny that people are getting offended by a video on the internet. If someone here can make a better video than Doug, then go for it. Just enjoy the engine noise and the fact that the testarossa is still being appreciated. Most younger people these days like the faster flashier cars.

 

I think his video are cool! Just not really serious for some more knowledged guys. He is fun but he has a lack of some car knowledge. I like his kid style of loving the car. Humoristic!

 

As a vintage car lover these videos are extremely important to me. I think you have to understand the audience that dog is speaking to. He talks about the corks because for today's millennial's and 16-year-old boys that want to do nothing but think about modern cars a seatbelt mouse, pop-up headlights, air horn and some of the other things that the testarossa has are extremely foreign to them. Kids these days did not grow up in a time where these things were in the norm, like us.

I love that he is explaining to a newer generation how important and fun and amazing vintage Ferrari's are. For me this is important as a collector of vintage cars and a person who ownes six vintage Ferrari's with three more on the horizon. I want the younger generation to appreciate them as much as I do or their art will be lost.

It's important that Doug can see/feel the special occasion that a vintage car can provide over the new cars. For me this is the most important element and something that Ferrari and other exotic car manufacturers have lost a little bit overtime.

I have owned multiple newer model Ferraris and recently just sold my F12 and replaced it with a BBI, and I couldn't be happier. The reason I did so is because of everything Doug explains while driving the testarossa, older cars are just more fun.

 

That video was shot in Palos Verdes where I grew up and use to dream about owning a Testarossa. Here I am getting gas in Palos Verdes not to long ago in my TR, I also drove it to my old high school, a dream come true.
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nice pic

sure hope a gust of wind does not slam your rear cover down while you are fueling!

cheers,
Vincenzo

 

Tempting the "flat battery gods" by refueling with the lights still on?

 

Imagine if you had the lighter plugged in - the reviewer guy would have been amazed and said something like "A CIGARETTE LIGHTER??? IMAGINE! MAKING FIRE INSIDE YOUR CAR... ON PURPOSE!"

 

People here notice EVERYTHING for better or worse.

Your car looked awesome and the video was great!!! I'm always glad to see the Testarossa get press.

 

People here notice EVERYTHING for better or worse.

Your car looked awesome and the video was great!!! I'm always glad to see the Testarossa get press.