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1980s Supercar Icons Showdown: Lamborghini Countach Vs. Ferrari Testarossa

If you grew up in the ’80s and were into cars, there’s a good chance you had one of two cars (or maybe both) as a poster on your bedroom wall: the Ferrari Testarossa and the Lamborghini Countach. But which was the best in real life?

That’s the question at the heart of this video from 888MF, which pitted a 1986 Countach LP 5000QV against a 1988 Testarossa to find out what they are like to drive on the road.

Although the Ferrari has been driven much less, showing only 8,000 miles (12,875 km) on the odometer, it feels like the car you’d prefer to drive day to day. It might be a little less visually striking than the Lamborghini but it’s a much more mature vehicle.

With build quality that befits its price tag, a quiet engine, good visibility, and predictable handling, the Testarossa is a remarkably easy car to drive. The gated shifter does take some getting used to, but the rest of it just feels like a normal car. And a good one at that.

The host says he’d be ready to take it across a continent if he had to, something he’d be much less willing to do in the Countach. With somewhat questionable build quality, absolutely appalling visibility, and braking performance that doesn’t inspire confidence, the Countach is a much less civilized affair.

There is an advantage to that, though. On a short drive, it makes much more of an impact than the Ferrari. It’s loud, it’s heavy, and it looks wild. It’s an absolute showboat of a car and if you just want to experience something fun for a little while, it’s peerless.

Whereas the Ferrari is a real grand tourer that you might actually drive, the Lamborghini is more of a showpiece that you use to impress your friends. Today, as it was for the children of the ’80s, the Countach remains, essentially, the automotive poster child of that wild decade that, if you can afford it, you can have in your garage instead of on your bedroom wall.

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Watch How You Detail A One-Off Ferrari P4/5 By Pininfarina

Ammo NYC has made a habit of detailing rare, unique, or otherwise interesting cars and showing you the process on YouTube. Their latest car might be the rarest yet, the Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina.

While there is certainly an inherent pleasure in watching an expert perform a process well, the video also gives us unprecedented access to the interior of a completely unique vehicle that we might not even have gotten if we had seen it live at Pebble Beach, where it was heading after this detailing session.

Designed by Pininfarina for James Glickenhaus, the exterior was inspired by Ferrari sports cars of the late 1960s such as the 330 P4.

The only one-off Ferrari ever built without the automaker’s explicit knowledge, the car was the result of James Glickenhaus being asked what he would want if he could have anything in the world.

“Right away my dad said I’d build a P4 Ferrari, a modern P4 Ferrari on a new supercar chassis,” says Jesse Glickenhaus. “Originally it wasn’t necessarily going to be on an Enzo chassis, we looked at the MC-12, we looked at a bunch of actual pure racecar chassis, but we wanted to make it road legal, and the best way to make it road legal was starting with an existing road-legal car. And that’s the thing that sort of set us on the path to become a manufacturer. That question: ‘if you could build anything, what would you build?’”

Ultimately, the P4/5 is very similar to the Enzo under the hood, but its 6.0-liter V12 makes marginally power than stock. Thanks to some mods, it makes 660 bhp (492 kW; 669 PS) and has a 0.34 coefficient of drag. That allows it to get to 62 mph (100 km/h) in three seconds flat and on to a top speed of 233 mph.

Fortunately, even though this is a one-off, it gets used, as proven by the paint swirls that the detailing team charges itself with getting rid of. As host Larry Kosilla puts it, those swirls are evidence of a car that has been enjoyed.

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Going For A POV Drive In The Legendary Ferrari F40 Is As Exciting As It Sounds

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The Ferrari F40 is one of the most iconic supercars ever made and while most will never get the opportunity to drive it or at least ride shotgun, this excellent POV video provides us with the next best thing.

This F40 is owned by an Instagram user who goes by the name Drive N Slide and even though just over 1,300 examples were built, he clearly isn’t afraid of pushing the car to its limits and driving it exactly the way Ferrari intended for it to be driven.

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Throughout the six-minute video, the owner pushes the F40 through some nice country roads and has apparently perfected his heel-and-toe shifting. At one point, he even performs an impressive powerslide while pulling out of a corner. A GoPro camera mounted to an arm extending out from the rear of the F40 also shows its exhaust spitting flames as it bangs against the rev limiter. It really is a sight to behold.

Compared to a modern-day Ferrari, the F40 could be viewed as underpowered with its 2.9-liter twin-turbocharged V8 capped at 471 hp at 7,000 rpm and 426 lb-ft (577 Nm) of torque – yet at its time, it was Maranello’s fastest, most powerful, and most expensive production car. Moreover, it is lighter than any current Ferrari, tipping the scales at around 2,500 lbs (1,133 kg) dry and without any fluids. For tight, twisty roads, it offers more than enough performance and the manual transmission makes it even more enjoyable to drive.

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Limited-Run Ferrari 488 Pista Piloti Tries To Take Down The McLaren 720S

Three years ago, Ferrari introduced a special version of the 488 Pista dubbed the ‘Piloti Ferrari Edition’ and YouTuber CS Panda recently had the opportunity to put it to the test alongside a McLaren 720S.

If you were to simply look at the spec sheets of the duo, you would think that they would be very evenly matched. After all, the Ferrari has a 3.9-liter twin-turbocharged V8 pumping out 710 hp, the exact same output offered by the 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 of the McLaren 720S. In addition, both cars feature dual-clutch transmissions, have launch control systems, and are rear-wheel drive.

However, as the McLaren 720S has proven time and time again during drag races throughout the years, it is even quicker than the spec sheet suggests. A number of factors could explain this, but the most likely explanation is that McLaren has understated the 720S’s output. In fact, some dyno tests have revealed the engine actually delivers well over 800 hp.

As such, when it was lined up against the special edition Ferrari 488 Pista, it won all three drag races without breaking a sweat. That’s not to say that the Ferrari isn’t quick – it simply cannot hang with the McLaren.

Moreover, in addition to possibly having more grunt and weighing less, the McLaren featured in this test had the advantage of using sticky Toyo R888R semi-slicks that no doubt aided in its performance.

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1,100 HP Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 And Stock Ferrari Pista Put On One Hell Of A Show

When it comes to drag racing, those not familiar with the scene might think that horsepower is the only thing that matters. However, that’s not always the case.

As this video from DragTimes shows, a stock Ferrari 488 Pista and a heavily modified Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 are extraordinarily well-matched, even though it is the Ford that has significantly more grunt.

Sitting beneath the skin of the 488 Pista is a twin-turbocharged 3.9-liter V8 with 710 hp at 8,000 rpm and 568 lb-ft (770 Nm) of torque from 3,000 rpm. This engine is coupled to a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission driving the rear wheels and makes the Pista one of the most accelerative supercars on the planet.

Watch Also: Ferrari 488 Pista Spider Dares To Line Up Against The Legendary F40

By comparison, the Shelby GT500 leaves Ford’s factory with a 5.2-liter supercharged V8 rated at 760 hp. If it was to race against the Pista in its standard form, there’s little doubt that the Ferrari would sprint off into the distance thanks to its lighter overall weight and better aerodynamics. However, this particular GT500 has been extensively modified and now delivers 980 hp through the rear wheels, meaning the engine itself is likely producing in excess of 1,100 hp.

In a series of rolling drag races between the two, they prove to be very well matched. In some of the races, the Pista sprints off into the distance while in others, the extra grunt of the Ford proves to be too much.

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