Nice,
Had a go in a 355 a few years back. Autocar have a feature this week about used 355 vs a new Lotus Exige - £30-£35k gets you a nice 355 nowadays, still too much for me but very reasonable considering that a new 458 will be the thick end of £200k, and the usable performance on public roads won't be that different.
Personally, I'd be less interested by what other people thought, but I take your point.
That was one of the 2 things that got tiresome after driving one for 3 days and about 1000 miles: people gawping or squinting through the glass to see if it was a footballer driving.
The other thing - that lovely V8 that sounds so divine as it climbs up through the rev range really gets on your thruppenny bits after an hour on the motorway at a steady 3500rpm.
6:30 on a sunny morning over one of the classic Alpine passes in the Ferrari or on the Desmo would be my idea of the perfect start to a day.
Geronimo; I had a sucession of gpz's/gsxr's before my first go on a blade.STILL felt like I had come from a moped.
While I have zero time for idiots driving cars dangerously and I fail to get over excited about fast cars, I have to say that critism of him "ragging it" are a bit ott. The road is open, 40mph limit soon becoming 60 (if it's where I think it is) and he's probably not really going much more than 30. He blips the throttle under the bridge but that's about it. He did say he "nearly lost it", but this is a bit over exaggerated as you can see from the clip and shows how careful he is being (as you would be with such an expensive car on loan!).
At best, I can moan about how anti-social the noise is and how much petrol you are wasting. Shame on you young man!
well done to the op for working hard and earning what he and many people consider to be a very nice treat. Certainly doesn't look like he was 'ragging it' to me.
The reaction of the fun police on here is just typical stw
Don't you need a very small cock to drive a Ferrari?
I don't think you do, but I do know you need a very small mind to think that.
And just to p1ss the PC brigade off here's my '96 993 Targa 3.6ltr aircooled loveliness 
Now that...
And the duke above are complete porn.
I did have a 360 Modena for a weekend. I'll never forget turning off a dual carriage way.....
Funny that. I've driven one on a track day and while it clearly had masses of guts on the straights, my initial thoughts on getting into it was 'oh, it's a fiat'. It's innards were seriously disappointing, very low quality. We drove back home in my wife's Audi and while it was 250bhp short of the 360, it was 4 times better put together.
Nice one! Bet you had a great weekend and sounds like you earnt the reward 
Just waiting for mine to be delivered to Ducati Manchester Geronimo.
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