Quote:
jennyz said:
you mean "elise"

you CAN'T compare this car with a lotus elise, be real please !!!

I cannot wait until delivery, car look great, and performance is TOP for sure !!

patriek



Right, Elise/Exige may be the wrong comparision. But nevertheless the F430 (like all other new cars) is too heavy.
Look, a 360 had a weight of appr. 1400 to 1450 kg (officially it was 1390 kg). Now Ferrari claims the kerb weight of the F430 to be 1450 kg. Other sources say the weight will be up by a whopping 10 percent, although the car is not that much bigger. All the advantages of the alu spaceframe chassis Ferrari introduced with the 360 are eaten up. So for me there is only one logical consequence: if they can't reduce weight further, because the necessary materials would be too expensive, they have to make their cars smaller again! Heck, who needs a Modena which is 4.51 m long? Make it 30 cm shorter, reduce it to the seize of a 355 and all weight problems will end in smoke without contacting your local weight watchers support group.