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nberry said:
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Moogle said:
I always believed the FXX was a bit of a gimmick to involve Ferrari's wealthier clientèle and extract exorbitant amounts of money from them ( to fund the REAL development programme -hehehe)
Then again, since I am not a Ferrari VIP customer/race employee, I can't say for sure what they do with the "telemetry/other data" that they gather from the FXXs....
To a point I agree with your post. The upper echelon clients are recruited using their money to give feedback on technology slated for future cars. But the technology had already been tested by professionals under race conditions.
This is in contrast with the Porsche approach which is incorporate, charge and have a press release telling its gullible customers what a great innovation they are paying for. 
Agree....
Real limiter on FXX/430C sales is fact that most wealthy guys have busy business/personal scheds and have lim interest in visiting tracks in Podunk on any pre-planned basis....any cars (incl FXX/Veyron) are awfully cheap vs costs of casually flying around in a G550-caliber plane.....
P R&D has been asleep for yrs....thus, the Luddite gearboxes; turbo lag; primitive PASM/PSM/PTM interface; need for real-world-incompatible ground clearance to achieve handling....and continuing (or increased) RMS issues on even vaunted GT3 motors (perhaps stressed-out elderly-tech motors???
)
F is laudable for its impressive tech advances in gearboxes, chassis/drivetrain computer networks....and daily-useability/reliability advances.....hopefully, Dino will allow F R&D to have sufficient scale to focus on upgrading F safety engineering out of the stone age.....given the current era of increasingly smart virtual software modeling, etc, perhaps F safety will rival P's in next 2-3 yrs and make P essentially obsolete/irrelevant for dynamics/tech-focused car nuts (no worries, elderly nostalgic enthusiasts will buy P's for next 20+yrs, sort of like the Linc/Caddy buyer base in FL
)....
