Great writeup. It's good to know that the 8-speed auto is well done, because the previous 6-speed is not particularly good.

The 348 was not Ferrari's proudest moment: questionable handling, weird interior, awful seatbelts that never worked right and simply not that fast. For this money, the 328 is prettier (IMHO) and more fun.

Um, much as I love that particular engine, it is not a paragon of smoothness or progressive power delivery. Also, it sounds like broken-up metal auto parts being shaken around in a metal trash can (which isn't surprising, because it's fairly close to that). To be fair, the sound changes from that to fairly magnificent…

I owned a Countach, when it was still a current model. It was absolutely dreadful in every possible way, except how it looked. Lots of things didn't work, there's no way that it had 440hp, it was like sitting in a microwave oven because the a/c didn't work, and you couldn't see out of it other than straight ahead.

Perhaps needless to say, but SOMEONE has to buy new cars or, you know, we'd run out of cars eventually.

This is perfectly correct, but is not well understood by all-too-many Americans. It's very distressing that the US education system doesn't teach the value of money, in the mathematical and financial sense. If you have the cash to pay for the car, which is a big if, you can usually do better in investing the money and…

and behind the steering wheel. Two rockers with central buttons, ie 6 functions!

They're great for driving information, ok for infotainment. Bluetooth works fine. GPS is on the right-hand screen, is ok, but small. The screens mostly allow you to display analog gauges, plus diagrams of the car with tire pressures and temperatures, track settings, lap times and the like. Only the tach, in the…

Well, they're smaller than 7 inches (what are you using as your, um, measure? :-)), and they're a $1,652 option, at least on a 458. Apparently, buyers of used Ferraris absolutely salivate over the things, and so almost everyone orders them on new Ferraris because it's a must-have for many buyers. You can't fit them…

Nah, it's bigger than it looks in photos. You can easily fit a couple of carry-on roller bags in there with room to spare. Here's a photo I just took, and that big red sausage (huh, huh, I said "big red sausage") is the car cover, um, cover. I couldn't squeeze into the frunk, but I'm a big fat git. A 3-4 year-old…

Thank you. This really moved me. It embodies the spirit of Jalopnik.

Completely agree. All of my training was exactly along those lines.

Not fair. A lot of 1000 hour pilots are overconfident. By the time you hit 4000, you know exactly how easily you can die if you don't train, practice and stay uncomplacent. I don't know Glazer, but I know his reputation for safety and training. ONE explanation consistent with the facts reported so far is a slow…

EVERY high altitude pilot should train in a hyperbaric chamber, and many do. I did. It's easy and cheap. I owned and flew an aircraft very similar to the TBM, and I've flown other people's TBMs. These are not aircraft to mess with and hyperbaric training is a requirement for many insurers.

The TBM is a turbine. Highly unlikely to cause CO in the cabin. As you wrote, the entire exhaust system is two very short pipes sticking out of the sides of the cowling.

CO is unlikely with a turbine-powered aircraft. It's possible if oil or hydraulic fluid contacts high temperature surfaces, but then the aircraft occupants will smell all kinds of things along with the odorless CO. The aircraft's air system is fed by bleed air from the turbine, and that contains no CO. Hypoxia is much…

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.