Reply #36: I drove a friend's Ferrari Maranello once.

[hifiguy]

He lives in the mountains in Utah and encouraged me to push it hard. I touched 95 on the empty, sweeping mountain roads where you can see for miles. The thing was a veritable purring kitten in town despite being a roaring tiger on the open road. Mario Andretti once said his mom could drive a Maranello safely at 175 on a track, and he wasn't kidding. You would have to make such a colossal (and likely intentional) mistake to get into any trouble in a Maranello that it isn't funny.

My pal also blasted me through a tunnel in another of his Ferraris and touched 130-140 before pulling it back to around 80. And mind you, my friend is a self-made millionaire (who earned every dime of his money by building the highest quality products in their field) 60+ Mormon who is the very antithesis of a hellion. He has, however, been to high-performance driving school and racing school and has owned Ferraris for 30+ years.