Last year I rented a McLaren and gave him the keys (the full story is posted in this forum down below somewhere).
This year, a Ferrari. So if you saw a bright red 2015 458 Spider in and around Huddersfield (or anywhere on the roads north and east of there up through the Yorkshire Dales, almost up to Scotch Corner, when we did a 200 mile road trip around the twisty bits, including Ilkley moor) last week, it was us. I had a Z4-forum baseball cap on.
He's been calling me a 'hairdresser' ever since I bought the Z4 roadster earlier this year, so the comeback for that was me sneaking a magnetic sticker onto the back of his vehicle. It took several days for him to notice it
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Nice treat for his Mom too, it was her 70th birthday, he picked her up in the Ferrari when we went out for her birthday dinner.
As for driving it, a little scarier than the McLaren. Naturally aspirated rather than turboed, felt like the throttle had only two settings, 'Burble' and "ROAR!". A little twitchy on bumpy corners. He was far more confident driving it this time tho and we took every opportunity to ROAR past anyone going under the speed limit.
Also took every opportunity to park it in the disabled spots with his blue badge in the window (which did raise a few eyebrows).
Sadly, the weather wasn't all that good, only had a couple days of sunshine. Rest of the time had the traction control set on 'Wet' (and it was still scary on very wet roads!).
Wet roads:-
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and dry roads (I didn't notice the camera strap getting in the way tho):-
[youtube]A7qKjIbG1i4[/youtube]
Not much opportunity for taking lots of photos, but here's me on one of the few times I managed to pry the keys back out of his hands (I used a pipe wrench!).
That's now two crossed off of my 'bucket list'. Next year (or perhaps the year after, I hope to cross Lamborghini off too).
This year, a Ferrari. So if you saw a bright red 2015 458 Spider in and around Huddersfield (or anywhere on the roads north and east of there up through the Yorkshire Dales, almost up to Scotch Corner, when we did a 200 mile road trip around the twisty bits, including Ilkley moor) last week, it was us. I had a Z4-forum baseball cap on.
He's been calling me a 'hairdresser' ever since I bought the Z4 roadster earlier this year, so the comeback for that was me sneaking a magnetic sticker onto the back of his vehicle. It took several days for him to notice it
.Nice treat for his Mom too, it was her 70th birthday, he picked her up in the Ferrari when we went out for her birthday dinner.
As for driving it, a little scarier than the McLaren. Naturally aspirated rather than turboed, felt like the throttle had only two settings, 'Burble' and "ROAR!". A little twitchy on bumpy corners. He was far more confident driving it this time tho and we took every opportunity to ROAR past anyone going under the speed limit.
Also took every opportunity to park it in the disabled spots with his blue badge in the window (which did raise a few eyebrows).
Sadly, the weather wasn't all that good, only had a couple days of sunshine. Rest of the time had the traction control set on 'Wet' (and it was still scary on very wet roads!).
Wet roads:-
[youtube]7SEMSrMsfvg[/youtube]
and dry roads (I didn't notice the camera strap getting in the way tho):-
[youtube]A7qKjIbG1i4[/youtube]
Not much opportunity for taking lots of photos, but here's me on one of the few times I managed to pry the keys back out of his hands (I used a pipe wrench!).
That's now two crossed off of my 'bucket list'. Next year (or perhaps the year after, I hope to cross Lamborghini off too).
