it's called the pista and it costs
250,000 pounds
based on Ferraris 488 supercar it has a
3.9 liter twin turbocharged v8 engine
only where the four eight eight made do
with 616 horsepower this one
is the most powerful Ferrari ever made
Tilden ought to fix it around three
seconds then third is every other
growing up favorite car these days
Carter's here is there from the standing
star after 10 seconds it's doing a
hundred and 40 miles an hour
10
spikey that's fast
and the four eight eighths comprehensive
rewrite doesn't stop at the engine a
quarter of a million pounds also buys
you f1 grade aerodynamics and an exhaust
made of in canal which is the same stuff
that using rocket engines inside
meanwhile every inch of the interior has
been pared back to save 90 kilos in
weight
all of which makes the pista about nine
tenths of a racing car for the road
which comes with its downsides but if
you're going to go pared back and
minimal at least make sure it's Pleasant
I'm in this seat here it's as Boney's an
old donkey and what's less of the - well
it's ten years old it's from a Ferrari
for five eight and then there's this
thing down here it's a carbon fiber sort
of spur with buttons on it it looks like
a medieval sex toy but not the boring
stuff the coils to warn you that you're
wandering out of your motorway lane or
that there's a scooter in your blind
spot haha nope the pistas computers
concern themselves with something far
more exciting drifts on demand
Ferrari calls it side slip angle control
six perfectly tickler played alongside
with electronic differential to keep you
in line out of line it's genius
sliding a 700 par re shouldn't be this
easy makes it there's no question with
the future we've done it again
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what you're looking at is the new
benchmark for the track focus supercar
but there is a problem with being the
best it does put a target on your back
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and this is the pistas newest rival the
McLaren 680 this is the latest car to
get MacLaren's longtail treatment he
gets a twin-turbocharged 3.8 liter v8
and like the pista its main focus is the
track
but with over a hundred horsepower
Lessman Ferrari
pounds cheaper at all he is the thing
though a couple of years ago McLaren
gave us the seven 20s that was supposed
to be a rival for the Ferrari 488 but in
reality it was so much more advanced and
so much faster than the Ferrari it might
as well have come from another planet
and now there's this 600 LT which might
be 65 thousand pounds cheaper than the
booster five thousand pounds less car
I reckon this could be very close
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one eighty over the line okay it's
quicker but it's not my day it's not my
day and it's not like McLaren has been
any less committed to the details the
longtail is nearly a hundred kilos
lighter than the 570s on which it's
based
the windscreen is two millimeters
thinner saving 1500 grams
they've even reworked the exhausts to
exit straight at the top for less piping
and more flame
mcLaren has gone to town on this car
bigger carbon ceramic brakes new Springs
new dampers revised anti-roll bars and
for me McLaren is still the master of
the supercar cabin I got a great view
straight down onto the road I can see
the top of the wings there it means its
light airy it's not intimidating by
supercar standards it's pretty good
value
looks like someone wants the black and
we know he's got both straight line
reads of a
Rory just explain week trips machine
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entertain
special car you don't come across these
very often the truth is there are no
losers here forget the million pound
hypercars
for sheer driver experience this is the
best McLaren you can buy right now that
is the best Ferrari so which would I
have
well for McLaren yeah it's cheaper than
the Ferrari and it's not as fast but
this is a proper pure driver's car and
it's the one that I feel most connected
to
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