Yahoo Autos This Ferrari F50 Is the Best, Worst Daily Driver
When Gordon Murray started to think about the details of the McLaren F1 in the eighties, he looked at useable luggage space as an essential part of the package. When the team at Ferrari designed the F50, their list of priorities did not include any such luxuries. All they wanted was a car that was faster than the mighty F40, using a naturally-aspirated V12 instead of a twin-turbo V8.
Ferrari's official production figure for the F50 is 349 units, which makes it by far the rarest of the marque's halo cars. Eight of those were supposed to go straight to the Sultan of Brunei, who asked Pininfarina to convert at least five of them to right-hand drive behind closed doors. That makes those right-drive F50s some of the rarest cars in the world.
But racing driver and 2010 LMP2 Le Mans champion Nick Leventis' current daily driver is even more special, since only four F50s left the factory sporting an "Argento Nurburgring" paint job-otherwise known as silver.
When you have a $1.6 million two-seater with an engine that will rev to 9500 (or more, if you aren't concerned about your valves), second gear is as fast as you want to go with the roof on. Apparently, it has a tendency to fly off above 60mph. . .
No GPS, no traction control, just a gated manual and all the fantastic noise a Ferrari V12 can provide. Being a left-hand drive car in the UK, you can't see much, and the roads there are tight as well, but who cares? It's an F50!
I would go to Tesco twice every day in this thing. Mostly because an F50 couldn't take my groceries in one round.
Via Carscoops
