So I’ve heard that even if you have tons-o-cash Ferrari won’t just let you buy any of their cars… e.g.: You can’t be a first time Ferrari owner and just go buy their very exclusive models. They sell you one of the lower end ones first to prove you are “Ferrari Owner material” in order to buy the higher end or more exclusive models. …Or so I’ve heard. Given Ferrari’s shenanigans with some online personalities ownership of their vehicles - they obviously have a very large stick up their arses. I mean, they even cause grief for the Forza designers.
The 599FXX doesn’t have proper brake rotors and hasn’t since FH4.
Most Ferrari’s can’t have their brakes changed at all - even though other pure-bred race cars in the game can. …it’s just these little things that stand out to me about them… I know they must be a monumental PITA to deal with given the way they act about the cars in real life.
Yes, but it’s not only Ferrari that does it. Try to buy a new Porsche GT3 RS. You won’t get one and that’s not because they’re “sold out” but because they prefere to sell it to people that have a history with the brand.
It’s not only Ferraris where you can’t upgrade the brakes. The brakes these cars come with are better than the usual race brakes you normally get (have in game). The concerned brakes are basically always the ones with ceramic discs.
At any rate: I agree, most of the time in those cases the brakes are race brakes to begin with, and there are several cars in game like this.
The 599 though - that one really baffles me… same rotors since FH4 and I honestly thought that is what they were so much so I went to looked up the car on the Ferrari web site. Note that neither game lists this as a bug, and I’ve never seen anyone point it out before… really strange.
It’s also the case with the two Audi R8, the 2015 RS6 Avant, the 2013 RS7 or the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS for example.
I don’t know what the problem with the 599FXX is? Do you mean the covers that are placed over the discs to keep them from getting damaged? If so they actually exist.
Yes, that Enzo is bad and there are others that look quite off but there are some that look “ok…ish”. The Testarossa above or the F50 kit are examples here.
From what I get they’re ment to stay on the car but you’ll also find pics without them. They aren’t only covers but actually help with optimizing the air flow around the car and with heat dissipation from what I got. It’s actually technology derived from the Formula 1.
Yeah, kit cars are so hit and miss. It depends on the company. I was fooled by the Testarossa until the subject came around and I took a second look. The enzo (don’t call it an Enzo) looks squished.
They generally get sued if they look too close to the original and aren’t licensed. I thought that’s what happened to the Fiero/Testarossa and a few others.
Short story, my friend’s wife bought a Porsche 924. She was excited about owning a Porsche. She hated that I called her little car a Volkswagen. This was back in the day when I owned my gas station. One day she came in for gas and I showed her her gas filler cap. Well we all know it’s not a true tell. But her gas filler cap had the VW insignia on the inside. I know I was never forgiven for that move. But it sure was fun.
3 of the most notable “VW” Porsche cars were some of the best balanced cars to ever be produced. The 914/6 showed what could be done if the put the 911 engine in the “correct” way and was the precursor to the modern 718’s. The 924/944 cars showed that Porsche new how to make a perfect 50/50 weight distribution. For all the praise the 911 gets (while justified), it’s the “other” cars that made Porsche the engineering powerhouse that it is today.
Just take a look at the backstory of the Audi RS2 Avant…
Porsche was always cooperating with VW. The both families Porsche and Piech are closely related and basically control the company. The Porsche AG is actually a part of VW since 2009 while the Porsche Automobil Holding SE (not to be mixed up with the Porsche AG) actually is the majority shareholder of VW. That’s how intertwined they are. Before the 924 there actually was an other direct cooperation with the 914. While the 914-6 was a real Porsche with a 6 cylinder Porsche engine the 914-4 had a 4 cylinder engine from VW. The car was built in cooperation and they even founded an own company called VW-Porsche VG for the marketing and sales of the cars. Hence the car was dubbed the “Volksporsche” in Germany. Both versions have a VW and a Porsche logo/lettering on the back.
That’s the short and simple version. The actual details are a bit more complex.
In Germany we also have the term “Flachkäfer” (flat beetle). It’s a joke about that the 356 and the 911s simply being flattened VW Beetles. I’ve even used it on one of my liveries for the Emory 356 C Cabriolet.
please, let’s not do that…
