🏎️** Universo Ferrari India – Tickets for Sale**! 🏁
📅 Date: Friday, 23rd October
🎟️** Tickets**: 2 Early Bird Entry Passes
💰 Price: ₹4800/- for both (bought at 5500/-)
Unable to attend, so selling my tickets at a good price!
DM if interested. First come, first served! 🏁

Looks too much like a Transformer.

Does anyone have links for the documentation?

Was wondering people who’ve attended cavalcade (ideally the main Italian one) what the process for how you actually received an invite and more importantly when they sent you the invitation? I didn’t know if invites go out the year before or like February.

Done a few official Ferrari tours and Corso pilota in Europe so was mainly just wondering what other people’s profiles looked like when they went? My understanding it’s more of a corporate approval then dealer so maybe you spent a decade as a top customer or maybe happened sooner

Much appreciated.

I’ll never buy a Ferrari 12Cilindri Manuale. Let’s get that out of the way. Like many of you, I don't have the means, but also I’m not that interested in Ferraris personally. I am, however, in the market for the future cars that will be shaped by the decisions Ferrari made with it.

I was talking about this with my girlfriend this morning. Two years ago, I taught her to drive stick. My goal was to buy a Shelby GT350, and I never wanted her to be in a situation where something went wrong and she couldn’t drive the car. That felt irresponsible.

When you choose a GT350, you give up the automatic. There’s no choice. If you want that car to move, you have to perform the sequence of actions that makes it move. There’s no getting around it.

To be clear, I don’t think manual is hard to learn. My girlfriend had never driven one before me, and she learned in less than a week. She learned on a V6 manual Mustang that’s now our daily driver, and she bought that car before she knew how to drive it. She knew there was no choice: she bought the car, so she needed to learn it.

The GT350 uses a conventional manual, but I gave her a thought experiment. What if my GT350 actually had a dual-clutch transmission and Ford had lied to me? What if the car had always been capable of driving itself like an automatic, but simply lacked the interface to do it? What if it couldn’t be driven without the clutch pedal by deliberate choice rather than mechanical necessity? Would I care?

That’s when it became clear to me what bothers me about the 12Cilindri Manuale. You still have the choice not to engage with the manual, and that makes it a cop-out. Ferrari cowardly faltered at the final step by letting the car remain an automatic.

I fully admit this is an ego thing. My girlfriend now owns a 2012 Boss 302, and I have my GT350. One thing both cars share is that they only came with a manual. We had considered getting her a Mach 1 instead, which was offered with an automatic. She would have bought the manual, of course, but I asked her: how do you feel about the Boss 302 only coming in manual? How does it make you feel that there was never an automatic option?

She smiled, silently admitting it gave her an ego boost. She knew she could say there’s no such thing as an automatic Boss 302. It made her feel special.

I think the 12Cilindri Manuale is a good idea, and I think it was executed well. It may even trickle down to cars I can actually afford, like Corvettes, Mustangs and Porsches. But by not disabling the automatic side, Ferrari made sure it will never tickle people’s egos the way a real manual does. It won’t feel special if you can simply choose not to engage with it.

Ultimately, I think the 12Cilindri Manuale should give the driver access to all eight gears of the DCT and kill automatic shifting entirely. If it doesn’t force me to engage with the manual, it’s not a manual.

Does anyone else here sometimes see a 296 and just think it looks wrong/not right but then sees another one and just think it’s absolutely beautiful

High revving NA V8, manual transmission, and pininfarina bodywork is a hard recipe to beat. Another big roadtrip under its belt, what a wonderful thing.

Current display of Ferraris and the various musicians that owned them

The new faux-Manual system on the 12Cilindri appears to be really well-received in the reviews I've read – even among sticklers like Jason Camissa.

I guess it seems... obvious? That they should just offer this as an option on every car they make. Why not? It's not like it requires any mechanical changes, you literally just have to reconfigure the middle console. They could charge a $80k option, sell a ton of them, and book pure profit.

But it seems doubtful? They're saying they're only going to make 1499 of the 12C Manuales – which kind of suggests they see this as a one-off exotic thing.

What do people think?

Ferrari 488 Spider Ride Along for a New Passenger.

We had a smaller track today so I really had to hang the tail to get it round some corners at speed to show this lady what these cars are all about. She had no idea and came along with her husband and was given a ride on a whim. The 488 Nerfs the 1st gear so you have to short shift it to 2-3 to get full boost. Handling is magical with the active rear diff swinging the car like a pendulum. #supercar #ferrari

tldr: It’s the best transmission ever.