Comments on: 2009 Ferrari California

By: deanscamaro

deanscamaro — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:09:52 +0000

You mean after all your “grief” in trying to get a new car quote e-mailed to you, this is what you settled on?

By: Brian Gray

Brian Gray — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:15:05 +0000

• No manual transmission option

No kidding. I can’t believe they did that. It only comes in girlie-omatic. How truly Californian. Pathetic.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:28:02 +0000

What would you do with a manual anyway? You’d wear out 1st & 2nd gears, which would be the only two gears you’d be able to use unless you were looking to zip around town at 1200rpm.

IS it a CVT automatic?

And I know you guys understand that you can shift an automatic and hold it in gear, right?

By: marcf999

marcf999 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:17:27 +0000

I second Simon. I drive a Tesla roadster, there are no gears, period. Gears are only needed because of the gas engine and its lack of thrust at low speed. Electric engines show you you don’t need gears at all. That is one of the reasons the car is so fast (0-60 in 3.9). I also drive a Turbo in automatic and wouldn’t have it another way. Manual gears are a romantic construct that says “I am a man” but truly it is nothing but marketing a weakness (gears).

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:55:08 +0000

Personally I would not want a sports manual transmission to deal with. I learned to drive in a 1966 diesel landrover that did not have syncromesh gears between 1st and 2nd or 2nd and 3rd so I do know how to treat a manual transmission gently. In New Zealand in the early eighties an automatic gearbox was very much the exception not the rule. Now after owning used Jap imports for years I have pretty much got used to automatics although one of our cars is still a manual. However I’d fully enjoy being able to floor it and not have to worry about missing a gear all the way to the top. I’d be fully occupied with keeping the car aimed properly anyway.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:56:26 +0000

Nessuna trasmissione manuale in un’automobile sportiva!

Ferrari sputa sulle tombe di tutti i driver americani con questo atto di malvagità vile!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:48:11 +0000

No manual??

WTF Over.

By: impermanence

impermanence — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:56:48 +0000

Ya know, if I am putting the “California” name on my F-car, it’s not going to look like a cross between an Opel GT and a Lexus SC. They should have called it “Beverly Hills,” cause that’s going to be its market. No manual tranny in a F-car?

By: wunsacon

wunsacon — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:04:50 +0000

Who’s not embarrassed to be seen in a low-end Ferrari? V-8. Phfphf…

By: Machiavelli999

Machiavelli999 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:52:56 +0000

But…but…we are supposed to have inflation..HYPERINFLATION!!

Idiots…