I am convinced Ferrari is a just vile company. I don’t have the money to, but if I did, I’d never buy one. Porsche’s cars are as good to drive for far less money, McLaren’s have better performance, and Lamborghini builds better supercars.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Glad you like them, I’m pushing to keep them coming!

Oh it’s happening pal. Mondial T.

Not sure what the powers that be did there when creating the “Classic Reviews” graphic overlay, but here’s the original photo that I took for your viewing pleasure and a bonus just for having a username I like.

What makes up some of that lost ground is the unassisted rack and pinion steering. Having spent the majority of my life driving cars with power steering, I’m always happy to get in a car with a legitimately direct and communicative tiller.

I hope you get a chance to test out a 328. After doing so much research on both I’d really like to see how its massaged engine and suspension tweaks made it different, maybe a bit more fun to push.

Most people know of the Ferrari 308 by way of Magnum P.I. However, the car was the subject of the greatest magazine article ever written. I refer to P.J. O’Rourke’s, Ferrari Reinvents Manifest Destiny. I’ll claim fair use and include an edited, small snippet here:

And to paraphrase Shakespeare here...

This is quickly becoming my favorite feature on the site. Always interested to see how the cars of my childhood (80s) stack up to today. For every good one (Conquest/Starion twins) there’s a bad one (most everything with a GM stamp on it).

The Magnum tv car is at the Petersen museum in LA. It’s bone stock except that the seat was lowered to try to accommodate Selleck better. He looked even more ridiculously outsized in an episode where Higgins took away the Ferrari and he bought a used E-Type. Which of course kept breaking down on him. It’s part of a…

They are really not great to drive. Back when you could get them for $30k, it was fair. I could see the appeal.

Still the only Ferrari I would own. Even though, like Lord Selleck, at 6' 4" that t-top will always be open to accommodate me.

Yea, the DEA loves to pull that stunt. Generally they’ll state the valuation as if the drugs were going to be broken up into tiny packages and sold black market retail. I mean, sure, that was gonna happen eventually, but the guys who smuggled it over here sure as hell aren’t gonna do that shit. They’ll sell it…

“if it’s true, it’s only because our working class has a whole lot more dollars to begin with”

Oh dear, I am quite sure I don’t know what you’re talking about. I am but a humble agriculturalist who reads too much world news.

Sure, but in those places it’s just a case of extremely high demand (lotta pot smokers in NYC) and a very young group of suppliers. Same thing in Nevada and elsewhere. They’ll catch up soon, especially as larger corporate interests continue to slowly ease their way into cannabis production. Give it 5 years, prices…

“Well, they’ll always have always coke/crack, meth, and heroin and synthetic opioids to fall back on.”

Haha, I remember that write-up and, you know, the value you guys quoted in the article isn’t really that cheap anymore. It was well over $1000 a pound, so certainly not “curiously” cheap. You can easily get an 1/8 of solid quality weed (people would call it chronic on the black market) in Colorado for $25-$30 out the…