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Ferrari 458 Italia- So good I want one!

On the 10th July 2015 I found out the joy of driving a car and I owe it all to the Ferrari 458. 5 Laps of the Long Marston airfield is enough to leave a big smile on your face when hurtling around in a car that Jeremy Clarkson likes to call epic, it is simply that good. From the engine note to the gear box, to the looks it hits all the right notes and it makes you want one so much. I think the astonishing thing is that a car that has over 500bhp could be used as an everyday car, sure you can't put the weekend's shopping in the back with the kids but the wife can always buy a Porsche Cayenne for that. The 458 makes you feel like Ayrton Senna and Paul Newman all in one go, the moment you walk up to the car everyone is looking at you, you open the door and get in, you press the "engine start" button and you know you are in something special because the 458 is something special it really is.

I drove the Mclaren MP4-12C in March 2014 and felt astonished by its brilliance but I felt that I needed to drive the 458 in order to understand the reviews myself. I have an obvious bias towards McLaren, it's my favourite automotive OEM in the world but I like to adhere to the truth, it's what sets apart from the monkey wrenches of this world that write poor reviews because they cannot tell the truth. How many times does  "AutoBribe" write a good review about the "cat" in the Midlands when it's not deserved?

Let's move on, I don't want this piece to end in other way than highlighting the fact that Ferrari have created a masterpiece even more so than the "LaFerrari". Why? Because creating a masterpiece is not about how much money you spend or how fast it goes or how big something is, it's about getting every little piece of the end product right no matter what it is. The Ferrari 458 Italia does this and more and I don't have to spend £1 million, it literally reaches into your soul and makes you fall in love with it and how many cars can do that? 

The Ferrari 458, Ferrari's finest masterpiece?

Lamborghini

In design there's a fine line between the sublime and the ridiculous, one car manufacture struts along this line with ease. 

Top Gear
...will never die!

As I am writing this I am watching Top Gear "Challenges" volume 3 with the British Leyland challenge not because it sounds good when writing this article but because this is my favourite TV show. I watch the DVD's and every repeat on Dave and now it has gone, well in the format we are accustomed to. I am sure there are lots of opinions on the events that has led to the greatest TV show that the beeb has ever produced to be cancelled. However, I cannot help think that it was going to implode sooner or later and I do have a bit of sympathy with the bloke who got clouted (apparently?), JC's a big bloke, he could do a bit of damage even if he fell on someone. I just wished JC could of done it in a more discrete manner, you know a kidney punch or a Bruce Lee palm punch to the chest or anything that would not shut the show down, especially as the P1, LaFerrari and 918 were so close to doing battle on the test track, forget that track in Germany, the TG test track is the best.

Okay, let's be diplomatic because we know that events like these always seem like life has ended but normally they turn out to be for the greater good! There is no other solution than for Captain slow and the hamster to leave the beeb, join JC on a motoring show on another channel, the bebb keep the rights to the Top Gear name, hire three new but familiar presenters and the two shows face off every Sunday. The beeb Vs JC just got interesting and besides I have 12 TG series to watch that include epic challenges, superb specials, enough Clarkson, Hammond and May to keep me going for ever!

Wood in cars is wrong!

Thankfully all hyper car manufacturers avoid wood as a material to use in interiors and there is a reason. Hyper cars are the pinnacle of motor vehicles they bow to no one, they do not conform to an accepted form they exist and we love them. 

Unfortunately there are some good and bad manufacturers who design motor vehicles to tailor for the motorist who has no style, normally of an older generation a generation that thinks that 3 ducks on their living room wall is a trend re-born or prefer the days when televisions were decked in wood. 

This is the start of a campaign to ban wood in cars! Carbon fiber, aluminium and silicon carbide injected with plutonium are the acceptable materials to in a cars interior!

Danica Patrick in F1 - 2016

Yes Please!!

Aston Martin Vulcan

Great name, sounds good but we will have to wait until Geneva to find out what it looks like.

The "Hyper Car" Hangover

2014 was a great year, the build up to the launch of the Mclaren P1, Ferrari Laferrari and the Porsche 918 was sublime and now it is all over. I feel like I have a "hyper car" hangover but thankfully I have never said I want to give up hyper cars I just wanted to seek the most appropriate cure before the next excess. So what is the next excess, that's my issue? What's on the horizon, a new V12 Lamborghini, a supersonic Ferrari, an F1 mclaren hybrid monster? Maybe an interim shot of "Bloodhound" a global engineering project to hit 1,000mph which runs this year, might help? 

Well, whatever hyper car wizardry it is that will eventually put a smile on my face like McLaren, Ferrari and Porsche did in 2014 I cannot wait!