"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
11/14/2015 at 05:12 • Filed to: The Ferrari 458 rocked, Counterpoint, Ferrari 458
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"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
11/14/2015 at 05:12 • Filed to: The Ferrari 458 rocked, Counterpoint, Ferrari 458 | 1
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I did hear a 458 whiz past me while I was in an open jeepney here in Manila back in high school.
[ Above is how most jeepneys look like in The Philippines. Note the lack of sound deadening. ]
The car flew by the first time I and the rest of the passengers with me saw it, but I knew immediately what that car was. I didn’t see it until the jeep and the 458 met again at an intersection
The driver recognized that I was eager to listen (as those on the side facing the exotic), as both the jeep I was in and the Fezza were at a stop. He revved the thing up and I felt goosebumps.
But nothing prepared me for the launch. He bolted off, and two blocks off that 4.5-liter V8’s soundtrack was still playing in ears and were head-and-shoulders above the rest of traffic noise until it stopped two minutes later, when the car is far away.
He was off, of course, never to be seen again until a week ago while I was tailing the car on my bike, the exotic negotiating the horrific traffic, with me almost always ahead to look at the cleanly-designed front. He didn’t mind me chasing him doggedly. In fact, he parked the car on a petrol station and let me ogle it and sit inside. Then I showed him my (then-fresh, now beat-up) yellow Hot Wheels model of the 458 and took a picture of both, the 1:64 car resting on the engine cover of the real thing.
I wasn’t able to get his Facebook name or some other contact info when he left (but he did tell me to be careful when biking in the city), though I’m in the Philippines, where late-model exotic cars are few and far between, so I can bet that if I do see another red 458 it’d be him.
The close encounters I had with the car pretty much validated many of the things I heard and saw in Jeremy Clarkson’s review, and even today I hold the 458 in high esteem, my own poster/PC wallpaper idol, my own legendary car. Not as high as a McLaren F1 or Jaguar E-type, but of my top 550 cars, the 458 is 12th.
Of course, to each their own, and I wouldn’t really be shaking someone’s convictions about the car (like you), but to me, the 458 did not disappoint.
To me, the Ferrari 458 rocked . And nothing, not even memes, can dissuade me.
Hot Takes Salesman
> Wheelerguy
11/14/2015 at 07:15 |
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Yeessss, join the red side of the force
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Wheelerguy
> Hot Takes Salesman
11/14/2015 at 07:18 |
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I’ve been, since I was 5.
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Hot Takes Salesman
> Wheelerguy
11/14/2015 at 07:25 |
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Most of us have. But others havent. Those are the kinds of infidels that think a 458 doesn't sound good
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Wheelerguy
> Hot Takes Salesman
11/14/2015 at 07:33 |
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You make it sound like we’re part of some galactic empire.
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Hot Takes Salesman
> Wheelerguy
11/14/2015 at 08:11 |
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Your lack of faith disturbs me, Jordan and The Slowrunner
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Hot Takes Salesman
11/14/2015 at 10:52 |
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Compared to every other super car I’ve seen, with the exception of the GT-R, it just sounds dull. And those super cars include other Ferrari’s. It’s just too sedated and tame.
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Hot Takes Salesman
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
11/14/2015 at 17:12 |
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In normal traffic at 2500 RPM or at full chat? You confuse me.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Hot Takes Salesman
11/14/2015 at 17:25 |
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6k rpm or so, he was getting on it.