There's an annunciator on the panel that indicates that the cabin altitude has exceeded a safe limit. In other words, that the internal air pressure is too low. The pilot has a quick-don oxygen mask. You reach for it, grab it and put it to your face, and it kinda sucks onto your face. Kindof like the oxygen masks in…

N-o-o-o-o-o-o. It doesn't work! It doesn't work! The absolute nadir of Lambo quality.

I lost consciousness just watching this. And my spleen fell out. God knows what it'd be like to ride the damn thing.

The 348, unfortunately, just didn't drive very well. The Spider looked fairly good, although the interior was old-looking the day that the car launched. It wasn't Ferrari's finest moment.

I've had many good experiences. The best was quite recently. Last year, I bought a 427 Corvette from Hendrick Chevrolet in Cary, NC. I'd never owned a Corvette, and the salesguy let me drive just about every different variant before I picked the 427. The price on the 427 was as advertised on their site, and somewhat…

Yes indeed, and thanks. Many Ferrari owners drive their cars very little. Others drive them all the time. I'm in the second category. Seems a shame to make it a garage queen. @DougDeMuro has it right: it's too much fun to just park it.

The fix is to get old. That takes time. :-(

Exactly. Based on the 458 forum discussions, less than half buy the extra warranty, because the car seems so bulletproof. The warranty is just another form of insurance.

360, not so much. 430 a little better. Free for 7 years on the newer cars.

Not quite. See my other post on the subject. 3 years warranty that you can extend by, I believe, up to 7 years. I paid $9,000 to extend by 2 years, and can keep adding years later. Maintenance is free for 7 years, as in really, really free: dealer picks up the car in an enclosed trailer, and brings it back a few days…

That's because he drove it a lot. The 355 sounds fantastic, and is quite quick, but the flame that burns bright burns out much faster.....

There are many myths around maintenance and insurance. Ferraris since 2012 come with 7 years of maintenance included in the price. The warranty is 3 years, and you can extend it, for, I think, another 7 years with a full Ferrari-backed warranty. The warranty on my 458 has over a year to run, and I extended it by 2…

Back around 1997, I visited NASA in Houston to talk about the BeOS to a group of interested NASA guys. My host took me into the Apollo mission control room. It's a national monument, and more-or-less preserved in the condition it was left in after the last Apollo mission. It was just the two of us in there. The room…

AFAIK, this is illegal in the US. The FAA prohibits all commercial drone use. Writing as a pilot, I can tell you: never, ever mess with the FAA.

The 456: now there's a car that disappeared without trace.

The 348 was not Ferrari's proudest moment, by a long way.

Ahem, much as I admire Sergei, did it ever occur to him that flying around the world in one's own 767 might also be rather wasteful? First Class on most airlines is pretty good, and you're sharing the fuel usage with a few hundred other people.

Race mode is not too wild. Its main advantage is that it opens the exhaust (as in muffler, not engine) valves earlier than sport mode, i.e. soundtrack improvement. But shifts get jerkier, deliberately! Yes, a software rev a year or two ago by Ferrari made race mode shifts punch you (and, presumably, the transmission)…

Most current Ferraris has a little knob (huh....huh.....I said "knob"), called a manettino (which is "little lever") in Italian, that lets you select from 5 different driving modes. Those modes are from "don't spin the wheels in the wet" to "holy mother of god I'm going to die", because, in the last mode, pretty much…

A 3,000 foot per minute descent is perfectly normal and well with the normal performance envelope of any jet, commercial or otherwise. No need for concern. You might feel it if the pilot initiates the descent quickly, but you shouldn't feel much during the descent.