pmarkow:
sorry but those tests tell you NOTHING in terms of what it feels to live with the car. in these days a BMW M2 is too fast (no, correction, much too fast) for the roads (except the german autobahn) so a different metric must be invoked. most importantly, how does the car make you feel? fast...yes, many cars are very fast today but this is not the issue. as far as the 488GTB is concerned, how did it make me feel? hmmmm...rather indifferent inspite of it being so fast and inspite of superset results. do i want to own one? no, i don't, no matter how fast it circles the ring.
peter
Good post. After driving Ferrari's for a few years I began to feel self conscious driving the car i.e. what was I trying to prove? This is not a knock against Ferrari but what the car is. It screams look at me I am very successful. Maybe as a result of aging, I am beginning to place more importance on other things in life.
As far as McLaren is concerned I believe Jim in the post above stated the best case as to why I don't want one. I would add that the front of the car has an appearance of a smiling clown/joker. About a week ago there was McLaren (no sure which model) next to a 2016 Corvette and a middle aged man and woman looking at the cars. I heard the woman make the comment that the front end looked like it had a big smile on its face and that she preferred the look of the Corvette (which BTW looks like a 488).
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