JANUARY'S EVO MAG---288GTO vs F40 vs F50 vs ENZO

There are mountains of test data on these cars already, all the results any mag racer could dream of. At the end of the day all of those numbers are secondary to the driving experience, which is what this article (and Evo as a whole) addresses. The article is also beautifully written. I love Evo and their approach to reviewing cars.

 

and while i know its not their fault , testing 4 Ferraris supercars in January ..in the UK ?? !!

 

Plain silly and it had a negative effect on the test when you read it.

But hey, look at the bright side, they could have done it in January in Chicago!

 

I'm a stunch evo defender, so I will go to bat for them.

Are these the worst test conditions, or just the toughest? In a perfect world we'd all be at Imola driving these cars, but how often does that happen? These less than ideal test conditions brought the car's qualities and difficencies into the light of day. That is far more interesting to me than some dry acceleration or skidpad statistics. Yes it's one man's opinion, but numbers simply cannot tell the whole story, that's where evo comes in.

 

I certainly appreciate a personal driving experience in an article more than anything and I just happen to be a huge 288 GTO fan, so I should be happier than a clam. However the test still left me somewhat unsatisfied. And in all fairness a test where the Enzo doesn't win outright is really biased. And as I said, I'm primarily a GTO fan, not an Enzo fan.

Bottom line is, that I had the feeling they couldn't let win the obvious winner (Enzo) because that wouldn't sell enough stories. It is much racier if you have the "underdog" win it.

 

Good points but I disagree. I think the basis for the test was to use and test the cars were the owners would be driving them most of the time. On the street. This is the only test that will show how capable a car really is, in day to day driving conditons and road condition. Read the section on how the 288GTO basicly runs away from the the other cars in the test because of the road conditons. There is also another comment regarding the Enzo on how it spent to much time on a flat track rather then on a real road. I belive this to be the idea of the test. Not pure speed numbers but as an individual might use the car, if they were fortunate enough to own on of these beasts.

 

i see the links are down, so i'll post this link here. i posted these a while ago on sc.net on request of an other member.

http://speed.*************/PitLane?viewThread=y&gID=0&fID=2&tID=23994

greetings, stijn

 

Thank you so much. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you