Stunning in yellow - supposedly only four of the US cars are yellow.
Ever since R&T featured a Testarossa in black, it's been the only color for me for that car. Absolute Evil. A 512M in black = Darth Vader's Car!
Used to be a yellow one locally. It had a navy blue interior. They make no mention of the interior color. Maybe the same car.
This one has a Nero interior. The owner has a yellow/navy also, THAT could be the car you know. For you 512M fans, here's his garage-mahal..... Image Unavailable, Please Login
They are called "collectors". I think the stock market is the safer place for $ these days. No ? Try not to feel too sorry for him.
So as a collector you would like to not have all your eggs in one basket. So he has a lot of eggs in the 512M basket. To each his own. I would have a variety- both for pleasure of driving and conservation of assets. Personally I do not think the 512M will have a large premium over the 512TR long term. Ferrari had to do something to help keep interest in a dying model. They have done it before- look at the 355 Fiorano. Just my view point.
Check out www.f512m-usa.net on the registry page click on #26. Several more pics. It is a spectacular color in the sun.
I agree the black is sinister. I owned #11 a black/tan and it was wicked looking, but a pain in the patoo to keep clean. There were a couple of black/black and I saw one of them -now that is the Darth Vader car!
I respectfully beg to differ. The Barchetta still holds a premium over the Maranello - and it is widely regarded as useless. All of Ferrari's limited edition models hold well. And the F512 M will prove to be no different. It's an animal of a car; a Testarossa swimming in a vat of cortical steroids. It's a 12-cylinder, normally aspirated F40 with a bigger ass (by two tenths of an inch!) and just 46 less horsepower and 57 less ft. lbs. of torque. And for those who thrive on exclusivity, only 500 were made worldwide with only 75 made for the US. That's nearly half the amount of Enzos in North America. There are more model year 2008 F430 Spiders in the US than there are total F512 Ms worldwide. It's a the fastest, most visceral iteration of the iconic Testarossa. Refined of any glitches and inferiorities, but no less raw than its two predecessors. It's sort of like the GTO (288) - you don't often see them for sale because so few owners are willing to let go of such an incredible car. The M will only go up in value; it doesn't fit into the current contemporary V8 market that's giving would-be sports car owners in the <$100K bracket a chance to own a Ferrari.
I love the 512TR's but the F512M is like the platypus of the Testarossa line up. Sorry, it's just my two cents. Can't make up it's mind if it's a Ferrari 512TR or wait maybe a 355!
Well and accurately said! It was the world's 2nd fastest PRODUCTION car in 1995 behind the F40. It was described in an article I read as a "beast of a car with acres of torque". When you drive one you are absolutely amazed at the acceleration capability of the car. You have an open road ahead of you and you take off and run the car to 35mph in 1st gear, push the gated shifter into second and stand on the accelerator. You are immediately pushed back into the seat as the wail of the 180 degree V12- a mere 8 inches- behind you blots out all other auditory inputs. As you bump the rev limiter you pull the shifter toward you to select third gear and the noise of the rushing wind, howl of the engine and ever increasing tunnel vision is all your mind can process. The rev limiter announces it is time to shift again and you do so into fourth. You have passed 120 mph and are now on what feels like a rocket sled. One more shift at 150 or so and off to explore the upper limits of this acceleration monster. 187mph and 6600 rpm and the car is still pulling wanting to get that last 400 rpms. The engine noise is deafening, the pull is still amazing, every disparity in the road can be felt through the wheel, the wind is as a class 5 hurricane and then the road comes to an end. Oh well the next time I will start a half mile earlier.
I took one out today the shift from 4th to 5th was at 155 at 7 grand the rev limiter had not engaged. The road was still too short!
512M are rare cars, faster than all testarossa cars but i think the diablo (almost all of them) is some faster...
Dear Ferraristi, Very well said.....you just described my Testarossa.....and yours. Yes, yes, I know....it's not a Testarossa...but it's really an evolution of one...not a different car It's just a little faster and handles a little better. Say, comparing a Fuji apple to a MacIntosh apple....but not apples to Lamborghini, I mean oranges. Let me describe it....the Shamile way. The 512M is like the tall thin pretty blonde you go out with and perhaps marry...she has such style. She's much more attractive than her younger flat-chested sister...F430. But the Lamborghini Diablo is the porn star you go out and makes you say..." wow, I didn't know you could do that". She faster, wilder and hotter but you'll probably still keep the pretty blonde TR series....but what a ride getting there. For now, I'm riding the porn star as my TR is on jack stands with her panties down getting the clutch actuator seals redone. Shamile Freeze...Miami Vice !
I have to agree with Adam. There is no question that mechanically it is the pinnacle of the line. But the aesthetics are another story. To me, the 512 TR is the best looking of the three. The taillights, headlights, NACA hood ducts, front bumper, and wheels of the M are all elements that come across - functional or not - as afterthoughts. Let's pretend for a second that Ferrari never made the M, but instead Novitec took a 512 TR and made all the same changes. I think most people would have given the car a different reception. Of course, that's not what happened, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And like it or not, it is the last and best engineered midengine V12 Ferrari (minus the Enzo, of course) and will always carry a premium over the 512TR.
