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Should Ferrari Build a New Manual Transmission Car? A Deep Dive into Analog Dreams · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  As part of Ferrari Fridays, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace
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  Hello everyone!
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  This episode, we're going to, I guess I want to discuss, everybody just
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  talk about, is it prudent or would it, I don't know, would it behoove
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  Ferrari to build a new, new model?
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  With the factory manual six speed or seven speed.
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  But would it, would it be in their interest, you think, to actually build
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  a new car, new model without, with offering as a manual transmission.
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  Now I would say, you know, wouldn't be, you know, Hey, no, it'd be really cool.
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  It's in the two nine six.
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  Um, but, you know, not just saying not a low end model,
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  not their mid range, whatnot.
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  Would it be like one of the Icona series cars possibly?
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  I don't know.
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  I mean, take a look what's kind of going on in the market.
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  Now, for those of you that listen to the episodes, you know, some
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  episodes back I talked about doing, you know, people doing the swaps.
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  Mainly on 360s and 430s, but, you know, people are starting
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  getting doing the 599s.
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  Um, and I know there's rumors some of you are trying to do a 458 as well, that's
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  getting really, really tricky because that is a whole system that's actually
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  just dedicated, you know, how that was built and made, you know, is for a dual
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  clutch or, you know, uh, transmission, you know, whereas, you know, your 599,
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  575, 550s, Uh, well the 550, I'm sorry.
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  Take that out of the equation.
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  550, all of those were built, were, uh, factory manuals.
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  Uh, but like say your 430s, your 360s, and down to your 355s.
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  You know, not so many of them.
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  Um, that actually, the transmission in that car, From the factory is actually
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  what they've used when you also got a manual all they did was build this
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  Hydraulic system that you know mimicked I guess you could say or would do, you
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  know, you do your shifting for you So it's just doing a lot of these actuators
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  and doing all the stuff that needs to be done and do it You know, very clunky,
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  you know, not the fastest You're not slow, but not nowhere near as fast as
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  they you know, dual clutches or anything like that But you know, so doing a
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  swap Actually, it isn't all that crazy or difficult, I guess you could say.
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  Um, it's just coming up with, you know, the cables, everything like that.
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  All the interior stuff, because you've got to modify the console.
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  You've got to, you know, obviously do the gear selector itself.
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  The ball, all that stuff, the gate itself, all that jazz.
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  The big trick is, the computer, teaching it, reteaching it, formatting
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  it, programming it to understand that, hey, now there's a, there's a
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  third pedal in there that's getting utilized, you know, shifting and
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  whatnot for your revs, all that jazz.
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  So it's just, it's just reteaching it.
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  So now the, obviously the big name of the game and that is EAG down in Texas.
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  Uh, my understanding there was kind of, uh, some hubble blue
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  going on with ownership, whatnot, fighting, blah, blah, blah.
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  But anyways, I guess they must have gotten things sorted out because
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  they seem to be just plugging away.
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  But anyways, you know, they're the big player in this game.
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  They actually sell the kits as well.
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  So you can just buy the kit yourself.
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  It's like 40 Gs, uh, and do it yourself.
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  Pardon me.
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  Um, and have it done.
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  I would recommend having a shop do it because of big, you know, doing the
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  mechanical part, not that difficult.
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  But.
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  Obviously doing the computer part, but hey, you can tweak it yourself.
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  Why not?
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  Uh, Vin Tran, or what's his name?
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  Vinnie?
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  Vin, I don't know, he's got his episode, he was part of Who N Get It?
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  a while back.
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  Uh, probably seen him, you know, putzing around on YouTube.
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  He's got his own channel.
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  But anyways, back to what I want to talk about.
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  So out there in the market, you're starting to see some very high end limber
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  reduction hybrid cars come with, offered, retrofitted, With the manual gearbox.
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  Now Koenigsegg came out with this really, really cool setup.
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  You know, and here's the thing when you watch it, or you see
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  how it is, and do it, you know, it's actually mimicking a manual.
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  Is what it's actually doing.
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  So it's not really so much it's a manual transmission product.
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  Percay with the clutch in that it's mimicking it.
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  So the computer is doing everything to give you that sensation that feel
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  like you are actually Rolling your own, rolling the gears going through it.
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  So, because you can actually put it into a fully automatic mode.
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  Or you can put it in where you got the flappy paddles.
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  So you got three options.
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  So is it technically, you know, a manual six feet?
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  Yeah, I guess you could say, yeah, but I mean, it's all done
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  computers and stuff like that.
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  It's giving you that sensation to feel the clutch pedal.
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  It's giving you that sensation.
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  I mean, like that, where your pickup point is the whole thing.
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  It's really, really cool.
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  The whole system.
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  I mean, it is.
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  Christian Koenigsegg and his team over there.
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  They have some of the most brilliant engineers on the planet
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  right now, what they're doing.
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  No offense against the guys over at Rimac and what they're doing, stuff like that.
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  But, I gotta say, the Koenigsegg guys got it going on.
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  So, and, I would love to be a fly in the wild or what not.
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  See who, you know, has these Christian ideas, you know,
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  some of his guys or what not.
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  I don't know, but I got to say they have some awesome, awesome
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  stuff going on over there.
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  Cody's thing is really cool.
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  I really respect, like that brand a lot.
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  Love what they do.
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  But anyways, Pagani, Pagani actually offers on their newest model, the Utopia,
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  a full fledged auto, automatic, full fledged manual gearbox, like full on.
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  So you got a V12, twin turbo, V12.
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  In that car, 800 some odd horsepower, everything like that,
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  full fledged, you can get it.
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  Now, you can get the, uh, flappy is the interesting thing, and this
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  makes you wonder if this is something that is starting to become, going
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  to become more and more common with some of these more main players or,
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  you know, more established, I don't want to say established brands, you
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  know, like the big names, Ferrari, Lamborghini, stuff like that.
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  Porsche obviously still offers a manual on some of their models.
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  But, um, the up, the take up on that from clients, from customers, was like
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  90 out of the 100, it was like 95 percent of the people took the manual option.
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  They ordered the car with a manual gearbox.
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  And from my understanding, one or two of the people, they wanted to
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  have it, but just due to health reasons, something, their legs or
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  something, somewhere, they couldn't.
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  Unfortunately, they just for, you know, medical reasons, do their, something
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  with their body, legs, whatnot.
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  They couldn't do it because they couldn't do the gear changes or whatnot.
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  So, they had to get the automated, the, uh, you know, flappy pedal
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  gearbox, as we all love to say.
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  So, makes you go, hmm, is that something that Ferrari should consider?
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  So, In my opinion, yes, most definitely.
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  I think they should.
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  Now, see here's what would suck.
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  Because obviously when you look at what it takes to create that, the
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  engineering, the investment, the time, I mean, you'd have to totally design
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  a whole manual gearbox, everything.
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  You know, and then you get into the fact is, you know, your interior
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  wise, because you got the gear selector, third pedal, awesome.
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  There's a lot of stuff that goes into that in regards to offering
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  that as an option in a car.
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  So it's like, okay, what do you do?
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  Do you do it along the Icona series where you're doing maybe
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  you'll build a couple hundred cars?
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  Um, or do you get it more mainstream and do it on a model where you offer it?
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  But you'd have to like also really completely change up everything on this
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  car So it's like you'd have to design and build this car from the get go that you
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  were offering a manual It's not like for the say the 296 which again i'm gonna say
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  would be Awesome with the manual gearbox.
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  That would be unbelievable with the manual gearbox, you know But the thing
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  was designed that way is designed from the get go to have a flappy paddle
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  gearbox everything like that How the whole thing's done up the whole nine
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  yards your interior design everything like that I mean everything's designed
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  to have that set up in there It's not made designed to have this big stalk and
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  ball sitting there between the passenger and driver's seat and everything all
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  that jazz And but it would look so cool Fucking cool, pardon my French.
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  But anyways, you know, so, do, do they, you know, the follow up to the 296?
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  Because think about it, because like right now they're in the stages of, okay,
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  what's going to be coming after the 296?
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  What are they going to build?
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  Because, you know, in product planning and everything like that, you know, you
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  have your, you know, um, lifespan of a car, you know, depending on if they,
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  you know, anywhere from 6, 7, 8 years.
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  You know, I don't know how long they're going to have that, the
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  296 in the cycle, but you know, sometimes they have them very lengthy,
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  sometimes they have them short.
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  You know, so I'm going to be keeping the thing going for a long time.
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  Now take a look at like the F12, which turned into the 812.
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  I mean, basically almost the same, identical car, just
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  a few tweaks and whatnot.
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  But you know, the, the, the basic premise is there.
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  So they get a custom, hey, so call it the, uh, I don't know if you go 312,
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  call it the 298, something, I don't know.
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  But I just think it would be awesome for them to come out and offer a manual gear.
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  I see a lot of people are going back to want that analog experience.
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  Cause let's be serious.
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  Cars that are getting built today at that level.
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  That price point, that performance, you're not going to use nowhere near
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  all the things that that car can do.
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  You're not even going to, those wheels will never see a track.
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  You know, they might barely ever get over a hundred miles an hour.
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  I don't, you know, I just, I don't know.
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  I mean, so why have a car that has all that performance, that capability?
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  Oh, you can change gear and X amount of milliseconds.
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  Oh, and this, that is going to shave 10 tenths off for this.
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  Who's going to do that?
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  You know, the 1 percent of them, a lot of those guys, they're buying the full
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  fledged race car that their factory sells and taking them on the track.
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  So why do you, you know, why does it matter to road car?
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  You want to have analog experience.
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  You want to be part of it.
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  That's why you go into the marketplace and you look and see what people are
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  asking for factory manual Ferraris, be it.
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  That's so much three sixties, but four thirties, if you guys
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  jump on the foreign marketplace.
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  com, check out the analytics we got going on.
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  We have from the past four or five years, we plugged in and put the data up to look
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  at the sales and see where the trends are.
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  I was going to take a look at and see.
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  My man Eric put a lot of time and effort into that.
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  Kudos to my man.
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  He is awesome.
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  But take a look at the numbers and the sales figures.
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  It kind of gives you a market forecast and where it's been and everything like that.
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  Kind of gives you an idea.
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  Check out the numbers on that and you'll see.
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  The price and demand for the factory manuals, especially
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  the 430, has gone to the roof.
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  599, forget about it.
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  Worldwide, 30 built.
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  20 for the U.
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  S.
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  Now I think they got a little greedy and some people think it's a million dollar
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  car But if you look at some of the most recent auction numbers, it is about six
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  seven hundred thousand dollars So I know there's a dealer out there that they had
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  one He was sitting on for a bit and he was looking close to 900 didn't happen, you
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  know So I obviously got those something out there to see what happens see if it
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  sticks He was wants to know but he said that car for a bit Now you look at factory
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  430 manuals, uh, there's a few that have been sitting out there for quite a while.
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  I'm going to pick out a couple.
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  There's a gentleman that's over on the east coast.
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  I'm not going to say his name, Ryan Freedman.
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  Um, he's had a few of these, and he's got a hell of an inventory.
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  Ryan's a great guy.
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  Super nice.
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  Uh, but he's had a couple now.
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  There's one he's had.
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  It's blue, red interior.
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  He bought it from a dealer out of Michigan.
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  I can't remember the dealer's name because it's been a few months.
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  It's been a while.
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  Um, that dealer had it at like 299, something like that.
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  Carhead.
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  12, 000 miles, something like that.
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  I have to go back and check.
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  You know, mileage was decent.
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  Anything crazy.
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  Nice color combo.
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  It's pretty sick.
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  I love the red interior with the blue.
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  It's a great, great combo on it.
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  So Ryan, you know, it wasn't for sale long in Detroit because he snagged it
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  up and bought it for what I don't know.
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  But then he turned around and threw it up on his site for 320.
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  So he was trying to do a flip.
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  He snagged that thing.
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  He was hoping.
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  Now what's interesting on that car, he had put it up on bring a trailer.
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  And I made a post on there in the question, you know, in the comment
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  section about, about the fact is, Oh, well, hey, this is interesting that this
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  car came from X in Detroit for this.
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  It was for sale at this price.
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  Ryan bought it and then put it up for this curious to see what goes on here.
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  My post got removed for not being, what do they say, it's, it's um, it's not,
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  it's not contributing in a positive way or something, I don't know, something cheesy.
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  So I redid it again and reposted it, then it stayed up there, but it's like
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  really, come on, people with half a brain.
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  We'll know to do the research.
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  All you gotta do is pull the VIN up, type that into Google search,
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  and it's gonna come up to where this car is at and everything like that.
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  So, I mean, it ain't rocket science, people.
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  You can't be hiding this stuff.
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  So, didn't sell on Bring a Trailer.
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  I think it got up to 280, 270, something like that.
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  I don't even know it got that high.
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  I'd have to go back and check.
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  Um, here, tell you what.
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  You know what?
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  I got the computer right in front of me.
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  Let's go to Bring a Trailer.
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  Let's pull up 430s.
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  Come on, computer.
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  Come on, computer.
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  Uh, F430.
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  Ferrari F430.
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  Let's see what we got going on real quick.
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  Uh, let's see here.
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  Now let's look at, where's our auction results.
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  Um, ba doom boom boom.
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  Ba doom boom boom.
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  Trying to remember how long ago it was in, um,
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  give me a moment.
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  Bear with me.
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  It was a few months ago.
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  We're back to, I don't think it was that long ago, was it?
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  Is it even on here?
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  I don't know, do they do, no, they have the ones that are
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  unsold and I'll see we're getting back into beginning of the year.
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  Now where'd it go?
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  Where'd you go Mr.
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  Blue Car?
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  Mr.
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  Blue?
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  It wasn't there, wasn't there, no, no.
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  We'll get into Scuds too because that's a whole, that's another,
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  it's interesting to see when you get to like conversions
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  too and see the prices on that.
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  So, um, Oh, I'm sorry.
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  You know what?
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  It wasn't Ryan's car.
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  I apologize.
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  It was actually the yellow one.
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  So, you know, I was talking about that yellow one.
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  There was, and I don't see it anywhere.
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  How'd it go?
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  I don't know.
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  Anyways, I don't, I ain't going to ditch going through it.
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  So anyways, but it was Ryan's car.
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  We're going back for it.
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  So, and he's been still sitting on it and looking at his inventory
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  and he's got a couple other ones.
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  There seem to get a little more realistic, but there's a black on black of which I
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  love to have, um, that he's got reasonably priced at two 80, something like that.
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  And it's got, um, I'm trying to remember the mileage on it.
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  Um, let me see here.
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  Let's see here, let's go on, let's see if he still has it.
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  Let's just check it out and see since we're, since we're talking about it.
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  Let's just go on to his website and say, what you got there Mr.
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  Friedman?
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  What you looking at?
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  Inventory?
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  Current inventory?
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  Let's go to your Ferraris.
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  Let's see what we got.
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  Maybe he sold it.
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  I don't know.
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  But he's got a black on black one.
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  I just love to get my hands on.
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  Um, here let's just do the search.
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  Make, we want Ferrari.
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  He's got 11.
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  There we go.
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  All right, got some got a 355 there's an f1 tranny challenge to dolly
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  Doom
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  See he still has the blue one that one has 12, 000 484 miles He's got a 289.
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  9.
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  So he's dropped it down.
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  So I wonder how much he got it for from the Detroit guy.
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  Um, then there's a three 60 and then here is the two feet.
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  Oh, he's dropped the price, but it's got a little over 26, 000 miles on it.
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  Uh, black on black.
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  My love to have that car.
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  So it's getting down there.
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  So people got it.
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  I want to say greedy in regards to pricing and what have you, but like I
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  said, go on the, the fire marketplace.
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  com check out the market trends and you'll see, so They didn't sell.
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  And I know there was a couple out there.
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  People think, Oh my God, half a mil not happening.
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  People markets going to dictate, tell you what something's worth.
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  So these guys are sitting on these cars cause they're
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  getting a little out of hand.
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  Now, the interesting thing is three sixties.
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  You know, you get yourself, you can still, you're still in the mid 100
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  range, 140, 170, depending on mileage, whatnot, what have you, um, and get
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  it, so, those are still very decent.
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  Now, I'm going to do the next follow up to this is going to be, I'm
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  going to compare the 360 and 430 because there's, even though they
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  look extremely similar, there's some huge differences between them.
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  But anyways, so you can still do well with the 360 in regards to
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  getting a factory manual 6 speed.
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  So, So here's the thing, again, going with the price wise is on that.
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  So a 360, you can pick one up for 80 grand.
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  It's got some, you know, maybe 20, 30, 000 miles on it, needs
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  a service or anything like that.
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  So if you're going to go in there and do a manual swap, you might as
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  well, you know, do your, uh, belts and everything like that as well.
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  So, but say you got 40 grand for the kit, put it in there.
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  I mean, you could still be at the price.
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  So why don't you just spend a few extra dollars to get yourself
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  factory manual, just the financial and the numbers don't make sense.
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  So anyways, Should Ferrari build another one?
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  Factory with a new car?
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  Yes, they should.
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  It's my opinion that I think they would sell like hotcakes.
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  You know?
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  So again, it kind of sucks is, okay, is it going to be an Icona
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  series where it's a limited edition and you got to be on the list?
• 18:41
  You got to be the in, you know, you've had to had yourself 500 Ferraris before,
• 18:46
  you know, you got to own yourself, you know, the new F80, you got to own a lot
• 18:49
  of Ferrari and Enzo, you got to, I mean, you know, I didn't, you know, some of
• 18:53
  these stipulations, well, if you, if you buy yourself an SF90, we'll sell you this,
• 18:57
  you know, kind of that deal so they can move them because no one's buying SF90s.
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  Um, you know, so it's, so.
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  Where do they drop it?
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  You would hope they would drop it.
• 19:08
  So it would be a production car that, I mean, even a production car, they're only
• 19:13
  building a few thousand a year of them.
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  So it's not like you're building tens of thousands of them.
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  So it's still technically limb car.
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  It would sound like crazy.
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  Could you imagine what the resale, the flip market would be?
• 19:23
  Oh my Lord.
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  People would be making bank on those cars, but I just think it would
• 19:27
  be so cool for them to go back.
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  Go to their roots, man.
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  Build a factory manual.
• 19:33
  It'd be awesome to see the 296.
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  I mean, obviously twin 36, but you know, it wouldn't be that much of
• 19:40
  an engineering exercise to do it.
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  And I guarantee you'll be leading the way in the marketplace.
• 19:46
  You want to talk about Lamborghini jumping on board.
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  They did do that in a heartbeat.
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  And you talk about, you know, their V12 just glorious sounding
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  with the manual, everything.
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  Uh, put a good tiny exhaust on there.
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  Lord have mercy.
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  You'd be singing to the gods with that's my son.
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  So yes, they should do it again.
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  Now, what do they put in it?
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  Then here's a question.
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  Do you do it into, drop it into a VTOL?
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  Because here's the other problem you have.
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  You got all these emission standards.
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  You have all this stuff.
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  So it's like, oh, maybe you make it a track only car.
• 20:18
  Well, that would suck.
• 20:19
  Um, you know, you could go into the fact is you make it.
• 20:24
  Barely a track only car, but you put all the stuff in there to
• 20:29
  turn it into a road legal car.
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  You just have someone on the outside do it.
• 20:34
  So basically have all the wiring for all your stuff, you know that you need to
• 20:37
  transform it back into a road legal car.
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  You know, there's those entities that will do that.
• 20:43
  There's the, what you would call, they do that with the, uh, McLaren F1s.
• 20:48
  You know, they've done some very, you know, racy, racy
• 20:51
  cars with those and made them.
• 20:53
  street legal, and so it's not out of the realm, so it would be cool for them to do.
• 20:59
  So, you know, there's a way to flirt with everything and kind of
• 21:03
  get these things back to where it would need to be a road legal car.
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  Excuse me, so I don't think it'd be all that difficult.
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  But, again, you would almost have to go the route of having a twin
• 21:16
  turbo model, be it a V8 or a V6.
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  Now, yeah, you could do the V12.
• 21:21
  Yeah, that's true.
• 21:22
  So, but, again, for the emissions and all that stuff, they gotta meet all the
• 21:26
  stringent requirements, all that jazz.
• 21:29
  You know, you gotta do this to the motor, so you couldn't have an NA
• 21:31
  V12, V8, or V6, or anything like that.
• 21:35
  It's gonna have to be twin turbocharged and do it.
• 21:37
  But I mean, you can still make it sound good.
• 21:39
  So, you know, you have all that to deal with.
• 21:42
  But I still think it would be so worth it.
• 21:45
  And I'm going to tell you right now, Ferrari, you would
• 21:48
  sell them out in a heartbeat.
• 21:50
  You want to talk about just getting back to the core.
• 21:52
  You want to talk about not only taking care of your loyal supporters, followers,
• 21:58
  and clients, customers, man, you'd probably gain Crap load more, you know,
• 22:03
  you'd get a lot of people over from the dark side of the raging bull and get them
• 22:08
  over to the prancing horse Because you went back to hey, what let's let's do
• 22:12
  something like that Let's let's go back to let's go back to building something
• 22:17
  that the clients would just absolutely go nuts for I mean that would just and could
• 22:23
  you imagine with what they have what you have at your you know, your Your arsenal
• 22:28
  what you have that you could get into in regards to Put putting this together.
• 22:34
  It would be awesome what you could do with this car You know what and get rid of all
• 22:39
  no, you don't need to have you know You know don't need the the screen in there.
• 22:43
  You don't need to have GPS.
• 22:45
  You need all that garbage Scrap that go back analog.
• 22:49
  Yeah, you still have all your computer stuff You need to really enhance it
• 22:52
  and all that jazz, but get rid of all that crap No one gives a shit about it.
• 22:58
  No one wants it.
• 22:59
  And a lot of the times it runs like crap.
• 23:03
  Go back to make a nice bass.
• 23:06
  Balls out fun, just analog Ferrari that you can just go out and enjoy.
• 23:13
  You got your three things in front of you.
• 23:15
  You got your speedo.
• 23:16
  You got your RPM gauge.
• 23:19
  So you know if you're going to run out of gas or not, you know, if you want to put
• 23:22
  a couple of other ones in there, fine.
• 23:24
  So be it, put a couple of your smaller ones for your voltage and all that crap.
• 23:27
  But just get your big dot, two big dolls in front of you.
• 23:31
  Have your basic, I mean, you don't even need a radio, but you know
• 23:34
  what people are going to want that.
• 23:35
  So put in a decent radio, your air con, that kind of stuff.
• 23:38
  But forget having that big fricking screen and touch buttons and all that crap.
• 23:45
  You know, just have it nice and basic.
• 23:47
  Have it on your, know what you got on your steering wheel?
• 23:49
  A horn button.
• 23:50
  That's it.
• 23:50
  That's all you need.
• 23:51
  Horn.
• 23:52
  That's all you need.
• 23:54
  You don't need the magneto and do all that crap to go and raise, blah, blah, blah.
• 23:57
  All that stuff.
• 23:57
  No.
• 23:59
  All you need is your three pedals, your steering wheel, your couple of
• 24:01
  circle gauges, and that big metal stick sticking up out between your,
• 24:05
  uh, right next to your right hand.
• 24:07
  Nice ball in there.
• 24:08
  Bam, bam, bam, bam.
• 24:09
  Going through the gates.
• 24:11
  You want to talk about selling those like, you could probably
• 24:13
  build a hundred thousand of them.
• 24:14
  You'd sell them in a heartbeat at 250, 000 a piece.
• 24:18
  Cost you a hundred grand to build them or whatever.
• 24:19
  You make a bank.
• 24:20
  I mean, it's just an exercise in engineering.
• 24:25
  I think Ferrari needs to go back to, I think it would just be phenomenal.
• 24:29
  It'd be so cool to see that happen just to go back to just doing something like that.
• 24:35
  It would just be so cool to see.
• 24:37
  I mean, again, obviously you got to have your safety features, got to have airbags,
• 24:40
  got to have those stuff, dah, dah, dah.
• 24:42
  So, but just whatever the bare minimum is to pass all the regulations that you need.
• 24:47
  Cause let's face it, you're basically building the past the regulations United
• 24:50
  States because the United States sucks.
• 24:52
  in regards to what regulations you got to meet because you meet their U.
• 24:56
  S.
• 24:56
  regulations, that thing's going to pass everywhere else.
• 24:59
  Just plain and simple.
• 25:00
  So bare minimum, meet what you got to meet.
• 25:03
  Put in a six speed manual.
• 25:05
  Yes, you could do a seven, but it just looks too funky.
• 25:07
  Having that extra thing over there.
• 25:09
  All you need is a six speed.
• 25:10
  You're finding good with that.
• 25:12
  Cause I said, that is more than enough for 99.
• 25:15
  9 percent of the people that are going to buy it and drive it.
• 25:18
  They're going to talk about going to the tail of the dragon, going to those places
• 25:21
  with that, just hearing that thing sing.
• 25:23
  Um, I mean, it'd just be unbelievable what you could do with that car.
• 25:29
  Man, that'd be fantastic.
• 25:30
  So tell me your thoughts message.
• 25:34
  Shoot me an email.
• 25:35
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• 25:39
  com.
• 25:39
  Shoot me an email.
• 25:40
  Let me know what your thoughts are.
• 25:41
  Put some comments down in the comments below.
• 25:42
  Share this around.
• 25:43
  Tell me what you think.
• 25:45
  I did a poll on LinkedIn a while back and yes, basically 99
• 25:48
  percent of the people said yes, of course you had these youngsters.
• 25:51
  Nah, flap your paddle.
• 25:52
  There you go.
• 25:52
  Cause they don't know how to dry stick.
• 25:54
  That's the problem.
• 25:55
  They didn't learn.
• 25:57
  I learned my first car was a stick when I drove on the road.
• 26:00
  Cause I learned how to drive a lot earlier than that, you know, started
• 26:02
  riding motorcycles when I was five, four.
• 26:04
  So I guarantee a lot of these listeners, majority of your listeners,
• 26:08
  your first car was a manual.
• 26:10
  You probably have a manual car in your garage right now.
• 26:15
  So, comment on this.
• 26:17
  Shoot me an email.
• 26:18
  Let me know what you think.
• 26:19
  We should have a roundtable discussion on this.
• 26:20
  I think it'd be really cool.
• 26:22
  Mr.
• 26:22
  Eric, I think we should maybe set this up on BreakFix and have
• 26:25
  a little roundtable discussion.
• 26:27
  I think that'd be fun.
• 26:28
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• 26:31
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• 26:32
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