2004 Ferrari 360 Modena
Italian dessert.
Introduction
Ferrari 360 Modena is not a machine. Not really. Not in the traditional sense. Cars are the means of transport to get around your grandmother’s house, the trip back from shopping, are a necessity, like food or ESPN. But the Ferrari 360 Modena F1 has little to do with transportation, little to do with necessity. This is a 395-horsepower, $ 155,000 sports car. It is a pleasure machine, pure and simple.
Ah, make sure you have your grandmother, quickly, in fact, it’s just why you do not have such a machine. You own a Ferrari 360 Modena F1 because you want to. Because you can. Because if you do not like women.
However, in 2002 Ferrari 360 Modena F1 is as close to a real car, a traditional car, a used car, as the Italian automaker has produced plants. For the first time, Ferrari has addressed such things as interior space, ergonomics and overall comfort base, not to mention the automatic transmission in our test car, making it the first mid-engined supercars brand you really can drive every day.
Range
Ferrari 360 with two body styles, Berlin Etta (hardtop) and Spider (convertible). Both are offered by traditional 6-speed manual or a trick to change a semi-automatic 6-speed manual. Cars and semi-automatic gearbox, like our Berlin that the test machine, you will receive a subscription model, F1, because the transfer is controlled by two paddles mounted on the steering column similar to those used by Michael Schumacher in his gazillion dollar Formula 1 racing cars.
Technically, there are four different models, the 360 Modena ($ 144,620), the 360 Modena F1 ($ 154,550), the Spider 360 ($ 161,475) and the 360 Spider F1 ($ 171,185).

Each will be a long list of standard features including daily air-conditioning, power windows, locks and mirrors. (The prices are better.) Leather seats, AM / FM radio with CD player are standard. Spiders get a standard power profile at the top. Standard safety equipment includes ABS, traction control and two airbags.
The possibilities are limited to exterior and interior colors.

Interior
Although 360 is by far the most comfortable and friendly mid-engine Ferrari ever, this is not a very easy car to enter a car or very easy to drive.
Wide door frames of his predecessor are history, but the 360 is very close to the ground, so that certain muscles of the leg is necessary to take the wheel. Also must overcome the great heads of the driver seats, which seem to take a beating over time. The leather seats in our test car was showing some wear.

Once inside, you’re surrounded by the best material we’ve ever seen in a car. The leather that covers everything is top notch. The console door panels and dash are polished aluminium. And plastics used for switches and air conditioning vents are heavy to the touch. Even things that control switches, like the trunk lock and defogging need a heavy hand to operate. Everything on this car, said the quality, nothing feels loose or fragile.
The seats are comfortable, but firm and supportive. These changes, while manual, for lumbar and the width of those big pillows, so almost anyone can get cozy. Behind the seats is about the storage space, which Ferrari says it is suitable for a golf bag, and a network for small items, such as maps or the latest issue of Forbes.

Ergonomic problems are limited to odd pedals toward the center of the car, which takes some getting used to the reception is poor and poorly marked controls the car’s audio system, and the door does not cup. Over time, we have grown as the placement of window switches that are on both sides of the stereo.
Before the driver is driving a race car type in bold and a group of instruments well designed and easy to read with a 10,000 rpm tachometer front and center. Only the gas gauge that goes from full to empty rather quickly, is something hidden behind the wheel. We like odd green night lighting of the mark.
Summary
This is really one of the most beautiful cars of all time. Its performance is impressive. His style is incomparable. His genius, really world class. To quote Ferris Bueller, “If you can afford, I recommend a gathering.






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