[DeTomaso] NPC: Dan Neil on the Ferrari 488GTB

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-------- Original message --------
From: Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net> 
Date: 2015-06-28  7:49 AM  (GMT-07:00) 
To: detomaso at poca.com 
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC: Dan Neil on the Ferrari 488GTB 

Dear Forum,

   

           No Pantera content, but excerpts from the incisive Dan Neil
regarding the new Ferrari 488GTB.   The full article is in the WSJ June
27-28 paper and should be available on line later this week.

 

 

           " Red. Fast. Expensive. Attention-seeking. Believe me, I get that
as a consumer choice Ferrari is a bit unironic.  Like very tight pants,
these cars don't always tell the story owner think they tel.  Ferrari isn't
the least bit sentimental about its customer base, either.  It looks at the
current abundance of global 1-percenters like the Alberta tar sands, a crude
resource to be mined.

 

            But bored post-consumerism can't survive first contact with the
488GTB, due to its morally difficult status as both a pointless plaything
for the rich and a work of technical art.  Now with a pair of astonishing
turbochargers, Ferrari's entry-level car makes 661 hp, hits 60 mph in under
3 seconds (including the automated second-gear up-shift) and reaches 124 mph
in 8.3 seconds on the way up to a 205 mph top speed.  Helping hold it to
Planet Earth are fully concerted vehicle dynamic systems evolved from the
458  Speciale, governing the adaptive magnetic suspension, powertrain
(variable torque management, E-diff and steering), active aero and brakes,
including the stupendous carbon-ceramic stoppers from LaFerrari.  The 488
GTB is the 458 Italia with an Octa-core upgrade hooked up to Google fiber.

 

          Pursuant to Ferrari's philosophy of keeping its evermore powerful
cars accessible to drivers of average talent (though average age and income
is more like it), the 488 GTB is a strange combination of blindingly fast
and utterly benign. -----Confidence and familiarity come quickly, even
hubris.  I walked into the place a slow footed American journalist.  Now I'm
Senna?

 

         -----The net is a strangely synthetic, but intensely physical
sports car, a leather-lined washing machine of agreeable G-forces, set on
the delicates cycle.  The 488 GTB is fully 2 seconds quicker around Fiorano
than a well-handled Enzo.  

 

 

       _____  The maximum torque is a little trickier to cite, since the
488's computers will not give you the full bolus until the higher gears
(variable-torque management), lest you overwhelm the 20-inch rear tires.  At
3,000 rpm, in seventh gear, the figure is an ample 560 pound-feet.  That's
just adorbs.  

 

 

 

                 Ferrari has been obliged to switch from naturally aspirated
engines to ones using turbochargers to comply with carbon-emission targets,
but turbocharging represents a special burden to Ferrari since so much of
the cars' character, their somatosensory essence, is from three qualities
that turbochargers don't offer: sharp, lag-free engine response; screaming
revs; and that celestial chain-saw sound that comes from a naturally
aspirated Ferrari V8 or V12.  "

 

 

                           Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles

 


   Dear Forum,


              No Pantera content, but excerpts from the incisive Dan Neil
   regarding the new Ferrari 488GTB.   The full article is in the WSJ June
   27-28 paper and should be available on line later this week.



              " Red. Fast. Expensive. Attention-seeking. Believe me, I get
   that as a consumer choice Ferrari is a bit unironic.  Like very tight
   pants, these cars don't always tell the story owner think they tel.
   Ferrari isn't the least bit sentimental about its customer base,
   either.  It looks at the current abundance of global 1-percenters like
   the Alberta tar sands, a crude resource to be mined.


               But bored post-consumerism can't survive first contact with
   the 488GTB, due to its morally difficult status as both a pointless
   plaything for the rich and a work of technical art.  Now with a pair of
   astonishing turbochargers, Ferrari's entry-level car makes 661 hp, hits
   60 mph in under 3 seconds (including the automated second-gear
   up-shift) and reaches 124 mph in 8.3 seconds on the way up to a 205 mph
   top speed.  Helping hold it to Planet Earth are fully concerted vehicle
   dynamic systems evolved from the 458  Speciale, governing the adaptive
   magnetic suspension, powertrain (variable torque management, E-diff and
   steering), active aero and brakes, including the stupendous
   carbon-ceramic stoppers from LaFerrari.  The 488 GTB is the 458 Italia
   with an Octa-core upgrade hooked up to Google fiber.


             Pursuant to Ferrari's philosophy of keeping its evermore
   powerful cars accessible to drivers of average talent (though average
   age and income is more like it), the 488 GTB is a strange combination
   of blindingly fast and utterly benign. -----Confidence and familiarity
   come quickly, even hubris.  I walked into the place a slow footed
   American journalist.  Now I'm Senna?


            -----The net is a strangely synthetic, but intensely physical
   sports car, a leather-lined washing machine of agreeable G-forces, set
   on the delicates cycle.  The 488 GTB is fully 2 seconds quicker around
   Fiorano than a well-handled Enzo.



          _____  The maximum torque is a little trickier to cite, since
   the 488's computers will not give you the full bolus until the higher
   gears (variable-torque management), lest you overwhelm the 20-inch rear
   tires.  At 3,000 rpm, in seventh gear, the figure is an ample 560
   pound-feet.  That's just adorbs.




                    Ferrari has been obliged to switch from naturally
   aspirated engines to ones using turbochargers to comply with
   carbon-emission targets, but turbocharging represents a special burden
   to Ferrari since so much of the cars' character, their somatosensory
   essence, is from three qualities that turbochargers don't offer: sharp,
   lag-free engine response; screaming revs; and that celestial chain-saw
   sound that comes from a naturally aspirated Ferrari V8 or V12.  "



                              Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles

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   Alberta "tar" sands. Really, how American.

   Cheers,
   Bill Moore
   Incendium Supply
   Calgary

   -------- Original message --------
   From: Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net>
   Date: 2015-06-28 7:49 AM (GMT-07:00)
   To: detomaso at poca.com
   Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC: Dan Neil on the Ferrari 488GTB
   Dear Forum,

              No Pantera content, but excerpts from the incisive Dan Neil
   regarding the new Ferrari 488GTB.   The full article is in the WSJ June
   27-28 paper and should be available on line later this week.
              " Red. Fast. Expensive. Attention-seeking. Believe me, I get
   that
   as a consumer choice Ferrari is a bit unironic.  Like very tight pants,
   these cars don't always tell the story owner think they tel.  Ferrari
   isn't
   the least bit sentimental about its customer base, either.  It looks at
   the
   current abundance of global 1-percenters like the Alberta tar sands, a
   crude
   resource to be mined.
               But bored post-consumerism can't survive first contact with
   the
   488GTB, due to its morally difficult status as both a pointless
   plaything
   for the rich and a work of technical art.  Now with a pair of
   astonishing
   turbochargers, Ferrari's entry-level car makes 661 hp, hits 60 mph in
   under
   3 seconds (including the automated second-gear up-shift) and reaches
   124 mph
   in 8.3 seconds on the way up to a 205 mph top speed.  Helping hold it
   to
   Planet Earth are fully concerted vehicle dynamic systems evolved from
   the
   458  Speciale, governing the adaptive magnetic suspension, powertrain
   (variable torque management, E-diff and steering), active aero and
   brakes,
   including the stupendous carbon-ceramic stoppers from LaFerrari.  The
   488
   GTB is the 458 Italia with an Octa-core upgrade hooked up to Google
   fiber.
             Pursuant to Ferrari's philosophy of keeping its evermore
   powerful
   cars accessible to drivers of average talent (though average age and
   income
   is more like it), the 488 GTB is a strange combination of blindingly
   fast
   and utterly benign. -----Confidence and familiarity come quickly, even
   hubris.  I walked into the place a slow footed American journalist.
   Now I'm
   Senna?
            -----The net is a strangely synthetic, but intensely physical
   sports car, a leather-lined washing machine of agreeable G-forces, set
   on
   the delicates cycle.  The 488 GTB is fully 2 seconds quicker around
   Fiorano
   than a well-handled Enzo.
          _____  The maximum torque is a little trickier to cite, since
   the
   488's computers will not give you the full bolus until the higher gears
   (variable-torque management), lest you overwhelm the 20-inch rear
   tires.  At
   3,000 rpm, in seventh gear, the figure is an ample 560 pound-feet.
   That's
   just adorbs.
                    Ferrari has been obliged to switch from naturally
   aspirated
   engines to ones using turbochargers to comply with carbon-emission
   targets,
   but turbocharging represents a special burden to Ferrari since so much
   of
   the cars' character, their somatosensory essence, is from three
   qualities
   that turbochargers don't offer: sharp, lag-free engine response;
   screaming
   revs; and that celestial chain-saw sound that comes from a naturally
   aspirated Ferrari V8 or V12.  "
                              Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
      Dear Forum,
                 No Pantera content, but excerpts from the incisive Dan
   Neil
      regarding the new Ferrari 488GTB.   The full article is in the WSJ
   June
      27-28 paper and should be available on line later this week.
                 " Red. Fast. Expensive. Attention-seeking. Believe me, I
   get
      that as a consumer choice Ferrari is a bit unironic.  Like very
   tight
      pants, these cars don't always tell the story owner think they tel.
      Ferrari isn't the least bit sentimental about its customer base,
      either.  It looks at the current abundance of global 1-percenters
   like
      the Alberta tar sands, a crude resource to be mined.
                  But bored post-consumerism can't survive first contact
   with
      the 488GTB, due to its morally difficult status as both a pointless
      plaything for the rich and a work of technical art.  Now with a pair
   of
      astonishing turbochargers, Ferrari's entry-level car makes 661 hp,
   hits
      60 mph in under 3 seconds (including the automated second-gear
      up-shift) and reaches 124 mph in 8.3 seconds on the way up to a 205
   mph
      top speed.  Helping hold it to Planet Earth are fully concerted
   vehicle
      dynamic systems evolved from the 458  Speciale, governing the
   adaptive
      magnetic suspension, powertrain (variable torque management, E-diff
   and
      steering), active aero and brakes, including the stupendous
      carbon-ceramic stoppers from LaFerrari.  The 488 GTB is the 458
   Italia
      with an Octa-core upgrade hooked up to Google fiber.
                Pursuant to Ferrari's philosophy of keeping its evermore
      powerful cars accessible to drivers of average talent (though
   average
      age and income is more like it), the 488 GTB is a strange
   combination
      of blindingly fast and utterly benign. -----Confidence and
   familiarity
      come quickly, even hubris.  I walked into the place a slow footed
      American journalist.  Now I'm Senna?
               -----The net is a strangely synthetic, but intensely
   physical
      sports car, a leather-lined washing machine of agreeable G-forces,
   set
      on the delicates cycle.  The 488 GTB is fully 2 seconds quicker
   around
      Fiorano than a well-handled Enzo.
             _____  The maximum torque is a little trickier to cite, since
      the 488's computers will not give you the full bolus until the
   higher
      gears (variable-torque management), lest you overwhelm the 20-inch
   rear
      tires.  At 3,000 rpm, in seventh gear, the figure is an ample 560
      pound-feet.  That's just adorbs.
                       Ferrari has been obliged to switch from naturally
      aspirated engines to ones using turbochargers to comply with
      carbon-emission targets, but turbocharging represents a special
   burden
      to Ferrari since so much of the cars' character, their somatosensory
      essence, is from three qualities that turbochargers don't offer:
   sharp,
      lag-free engine response; screaming revs; and that celestial
   chain-saw
      sound that comes from a naturally aspirated Ferrari V8 or V12.  "
                                 Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
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