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Ferrari F430 Scuderia: Verdict: Not bad, entertaining to drive, but take a look at everything else you can buy in the 540-560pp category for less money, weight, more power, and better handling. Almost anything's better in that category thanks to this luggish italian's handling. But those stripes...
The 430 Scuderia ('430 team' in Italian) is the last, final hurrah of the Ferarri F430. One thing I noticed right off the bat was that it feels really heavy. It's not particularly a heavy car coming in at 1,350 kilograms (few short of 3k pounds) I feel this would have to do with the OUTRAGEOUSLY weak dampeners. See, the dampeners are what most people would call shock absorbers. They handle sudden jolts in the suspension and weight transfer. They're so soft in this car that the steering is lacking sharp movements and stability which compromises the handling at high speed cornering. Speaking of the handling, it's not particularly bad if you know how to work it. It understeers at low speed and if you turn tight enough at high speed you'll get traction loss in the rear and the back will kick out (equally fun and terrifing
). Weight distribution is 44 front/56 back. That coupled with the weak dampeners and of course it being a heavy, italian, high riding(relatively) super car, it'll be hard to control but I think that if someone who knows how suspension tuning works in gran turismo 6, they can fix that right away. But could they fix the understeer...
Value: Coming in at a few thousand over 300k, this super car, like most fancy italian objects and people is ready to empty your wallet at a moments notice. But there's a catch, for less money you can get yourself a more powerful and (assumed) better handling ferrari: the 458. Or you can go Japanese and get the perfect-at-stock Nissan GT-R Black edition '12 for not even a third of what you'd pay for the Scuderia. However, there is one thing that almost makes this car worth buying over anything else in it's 540-560pp category, and that my friends is it's double racing stripe. Seriously...that stripe itself is worth like 150k in this game...
As requested by DolHause
Follow the origianal thread to get updates on what cars I reviewed: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/premium-vehicle-reviews-anyone.313334/#post-9884044
REPLAY HOPEFULLY COMING SOON!!
The 430 Scuderia ('430 team' in Italian) is the last, final hurrah of the Ferarri F430. One thing I noticed right off the bat was that it feels really heavy. It's not particularly a heavy car coming in at 1,350 kilograms (few short of 3k pounds) I feel this would have to do with the OUTRAGEOUSLY weak dampeners. See, the dampeners are what most people would call shock absorbers. They handle sudden jolts in the suspension and weight transfer. They're so soft in this car that the steering is lacking sharp movements and stability which compromises the handling at high speed cornering. Speaking of the handling, it's not particularly bad if you know how to work it. It understeers at low speed and if you turn tight enough at high speed you'll get traction loss in the rear and the back will kick out (equally fun and terrifing
). Weight distribution is 44 front/56 back. That coupled with the weak dampeners and of course it being a heavy, italian, high riding(relatively) super car, it'll be hard to control but I think that if someone who knows how suspension tuning works in gran turismo 6, they can fix that right away. But could they fix the understeer...Value: Coming in at a few thousand over 300k, this super car, like most fancy italian objects and people is ready to empty your wallet at a moments notice. But there's a catch, for less money you can get yourself a more powerful and (assumed) better handling ferrari: the 458. Or you can go Japanese and get the perfect-at-stock Nissan GT-R Black edition '12 for not even a third of what you'd pay for the Scuderia. However, there is one thing that almost makes this car worth buying over anything else in it's 540-560pp category, and that my friends is it's double racing stripe. Seriously...that stripe itself is worth like 150k in this game...
As requested by DolHause
Follow the origianal thread to get updates on what cars I reviewed: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/premium-vehicle-reviews-anyone.313334/#post-9884044
REPLAY HOPEFULLY COMING SOON!!
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