Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 10, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba To automotive Winnipeg free november 2000 t Ferrari 456 it stunning shifter and the ears not either Maranello super car stirs dreams of lottery win by David Booth i could Start this Road test with some gratuitous statement about a ferraris sex Appeal something to the effect that if you cant pull the opposite sex with this youre probably better off taking up filing tax returns As a or i could Wax lyrical about the mellifluous exhaust made even More som Nife Rous on this 456gt by the after Market Tuby exhaust system that lets the big v12 really hit the High even easier would be some offt Decuff description of the pin Nifa Rinas classic lines that like virtually All of ferraris the 456gt is sure to be worshipped in two or three generations just As the tr250 Testa Rossa is i could Start with any of and they All be but in not going instead in going to talk the lever Sticks into in a Way that and you have Cho sen the perfect about the artistry shift that shift like most ferraris with manual the 456 has the famed h Gate plate the exception is the new 360 that uses paddles on the steering wheel to change thus dispensing with the shifter completely that guides the lever into its a Billet Alu Minum affair that As Beautiful As any thing Ive seen on a in its so Beautiful that Ferrari Quebec where i borrowed the it Sells the plate and the 456s shifter mounted to some mahogany As a precise what i loved Best was its after a Brief period of reluctance Ferrari boxes have always needed warm ing up before shifting the lever Sticks into gear with a precise metallic Click of aluminium on satisfying in a Way that and you have just chosen a gear perfect for this occasion one that any lesser mortal would have Wail the big v12 up to snick it but into and for a moment youre at its 1979 and youre Gilles Vil or is it the Mille Miglia if you win the dont walk to the nearest Ferrari store and order a 456 and Tazio Nuvola i in not but you sure do feel Damn its almost secondary that the 456 is a Good but for their the seriously moneyed get a really spectacular it might not have always been but ferraris Are now thoroughly competent automobiles with reliable Bosch electronics and Abs that just happen to be the most desirable cars on the the 456 is even the seats Are Well the ride no firmer than a Mercedes cl600 and the air condition ing system and the audio system ill be perfectly honest i didst get to flog the 456gt Down a Windy so i cant regale you with feats of Darin do and running from the Law if cops Are anything like most of the Gen eral Public who gawked at the it would take at least an hour to Stop grilling you about its performance before they haul your butt off to the what Little silliness i did indulge in says that the it will be every bit As competent As the next though its doubtful that even one of them in North at least will Ever be pushed within 50 per cent of its of the owner is Brave enough to meander onto a that because that hulking v12 is pumping 440 horsepower from its and double overhead fast Doest begin to describe and nothing with four seats for the 456 does has vestigial perches in the rear except for a porsche Turbo accelerates quite As hard As the and even though the porsche is it cant match the 456s sheer there almost compared with a Fer though the v12 is redlined at the Ferrari also pulls from Idle like any Ordinary theres no need for pleading with archaic roman gods to get the thing to Start and its performance is As routine As any Toyota albeit one that can Emu late a Booster rocket if you mat the loud Ferrari claims a top Speed of 300 Kwh 295 with the four Speed automatic and acceleration to 100 pm h in just and this is ferraris touring the Topo theline 550 Maranello revs steers More quickly and just generally assaults the senses even i guess in that it be Nur its 1957 and in Juan Manuel the greatest Driver in racing history in his greatest race that 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