You are mistaken. I am a car person if ever there were one, and I love my P85D.

I agree. At that price point, I'll take the GT350R please.

Au contraire - *this* Ferrari owner is delighted to see the new GT350R. Competition improves the breed!

Thank you for the link. I've spent more on far less worthy causes.

Fun read, Doug :) Two quick observations:

That was an awesome track session. V12s in abundance...

Important point: in a 730HP car, the HP increase is 3.5%. That sounds about right — I've seen a number of performance-oriented street cars pick up a few % of HP by swapping street, emissions-legal headers and cats for longtube headers and high-flow cats. The resulting car won't pass an emissions sniffer test, and…

No mystery. It's comfortable, reliable, fast, good looking, and many of the road trips we do — overnight through snow to reach Yosemite in time for daybreak photography, or exploring trails in Moab — require good 4WD. If you haven't driven one, I recommend doing so; you may be as impressed as I was.