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Ferrari Testarossa - Test drive and Review of an 80s icon.
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2020
- The Ferrari Testarossa was released in 1984 as the successor to the Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer. While the BB was a hit with consiumers it had some issues that the Testarossa was able to overcome such as the cabin overheating. The Ferrari Testarossa was designed by Pininfarina and produced from 1984 to 1991 until it was replaced by the 512 TR and then the 512 M. In total there were almost 10,000 cars produced, (including the 512 TR and M) making it one of the most mass-produced Ferraris.
All versions of the Ferrari Testarossa came with rear-mounted 12 cylinder engine and five-speed manual transmission. The rear mid-engine design (engine between the axles but behind the cabin) kept the center of gravity in the middle of the car, which increased the stability and cornering capabilities of the car, making the driving experience much like that of a high powered go kart. The original Testarossa was reintroduced as the Ferrari 512 TR (TR standing for TestaRossa), at the Los Angeles Auto Show, as a completely new car. in 1994 the Ferrari F512 M was introduced at the 1994 Paris Auto Show. The car dropped the TR initials and added the M which in Italian stood for modificata and was the very last version of the Testarossa. The Testarossa was replaced in 1996 by the front-engined 550 Maranello.
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I bought mine and actually asked NOT to have the “engine out” service done. I was able to get the dealer to knock it down by $15,000, and had my guy, that I trust a lot more, do it for around $8000. So in essence I saved $7000, and had the peace of mind to actually watch my guy do the full engine out service.
Surprised Ferrari let you do that
A masterpiece of design by Pininfarina still looks extraordinary today! one the most beautiful cars of all-time.
The Testarossa, Countach, and Porsche 911 Turbo pretty much ruled the 80s. Every other kid in my town had a poster of at least one of them alongside their Def Leppard and Kathy Ireland posters. When Miami Vice introduced the white Testarossa after blowing up the McBurnie Daytona replica, I was instantly hooked by its gorgeous and unique lines.
Great comment! You literally took me down my own personal memory lane! Cheers!
Don’t forget the weeabo dream cars of the 80s like the ae86. Which ironically the ae86 is what got me into cars.
The Porshe 959 Twin Turbo beat out the 911
A true icon and an all time classic; thanks for posting!
I grew up in the 80's, and this was the car I dreamt of owning. Along with a Porsche 944.
Did you grow up to own any sports cars,?
@@lucidinterval8012 nope...
@@humanbeing2420 same bro :D
944?? Yikes, pretty low aspirations
@@stanleymasterson1135 what makes you say that? The ugliness? 😂
This is my first video watching on this channel. My first impression... I love the way you find all these interesting quirks and features to this car beyond just how it looks and drives. Well explained. Very informative. This is better than any Doug DeMuro review I've ever seen! 😂
My favourite car! Miami Vice tv show 1984! Love it!
That sound is wonderful.
Very nice video; well done.👍
One forgotten fact: The very early Testarossa (the flying mirror with central nut wheels) is the only one of the US-versions what has come with the original Euro dashboard (miles counter in the middle console; no horizontal bar under the dashboard) and without the annoying seat-belt thing. And they have the most "true" horsepower.
Theres alot of facts to go over, we will cover more in another video when we get another TR in :)
My childhood dream car :) awesome video, thanks !
My mechanic has a nice collection of cars, one of which is an 80's Testarossa (he's also got an 84 Porche 911 twin turbo & an 86 928S). I've ridden in it a couple of times. When I got my C5 Corvette the first thing it reminded me of was the ride of that 80's Testarossa. The C5 has a similar weight distribution due to its transverse mounted trans and the rear end is wider than the front end like the Testarossa which cases gives you amazing cornering capability.
One of my poster cars as a teenager,along with the Countach.My first Testarossa I ever saw was in a london showroom it was metallic black,it looked great,even now they don't look dated,thank you for pointing out where the door handle was,I remembered watching Clive James struggling to open the door of a hired Testarossa years ago and i often thought how do you open the door.Anyway on a non serious note Dont listen to what people are saying about your jeans,they look great.Keep up with the great videos.
The automatic seatbelts were mandated for a short while. It was a perfect example of a nanny state law that was absolutely idiotic. Big government always sucks.
I would say the Testarossa has made pop culture fame when it was driven in 1980s tv show Miami Vice by Sonny Crockett who was played by Don Johnson in the tv series.
a Ferrari legend.
Finally you drove a Testarossa!!! My dream come true!! Thanks! Now the last to be driven must be the F40! Great video, you drive it very wella and with a great personality!!!! Well done!!!
Thanks, the f50 and f40 will come :)
@@FerrarisOnline ohhhh very good news! But PLEASE one time drive one of them in flat sandals! Please!!!!!
The Ferrari 348 is the purest of the breed. Its by far the biggest bang for the buck in the Ferrari as well as the whole sports car market. Its now or never for the 348.
You’re right…. there are two in the Seattle area, for under 55k. They’re a steal!
Cmon bro stop spamming this every video, you're gonna make the prices go up 😅
Good stuff. Thanks for posting. I remember when the TR came out and the impression it made . Ferrari North America office is in Englewood cliffs NJ near where I used to live .
Awesome video! I learned a bunch and now i want a Testarossa
Glad you enjoyed it. They are an absolute blast to drive and a total head turner.
Ferraris Online gorgeous car
Great channel and great knowledge. Really enjoying it!
Love your reviews on these gorgeous rides! You’re very candid and honest and it’s fun to watch
Well done..🙂 ❤ I always Love the Testarossa as a Child already in the 80S. MIAMI VICE.. and so on. The Design and Proportions Made a very Strong Impression on me. Already as a Child I knew this Car is more then Special. ( Born in July 1979) When the Knee hit the Key 😁 this Car is very Extraordinary and Special. I have the Feeling.. You are too. ❤
Very well done, it's like a 512BBi that went to charm school! An incredible Ferrari especially in white, trust me! M.
Thanks!
Great to see you have Don Johnson as a viewer. 😀
These runner seatbelts were never used as a convenience. They were a loop hole in regulations! In the late 80s /early 90s, cars had the option of either having these "automatic" seatbelts or airbags. This was the easier solution for most cars at the time I guess.
Awesome video! Love the Testarossa.
80's-90's. I remember when it came out in '84.
The custom fit luggage option was not only for the front but fit behind the seats as well. This car was on my wall and i told myself i would put it in my garage. I have owned and have many cars but for me , my TR just can't be matched for the overall impact on the senses. All the little quirks is what makes the TR. Put some exhaust with updated rims/tires and wow. They dont make them like the 80's / early 90's anymore ( F40, 328, TR, 512TR, Countach, Diablo, throw in the mondial convertible) Right there you have 4 Poster cars of like 2 decades (or more). Saw a smartass comment below, love you're channel and you are doing awesome. I need to come down i live close to Newport/Del mar . Nothing like PCH early morning then going to Crystal Cove (old days)
Thanks! We go to the crystal cove show often. It was quietly going on for a while but thanks to the internet its gettting super popular again.
I saw one of these parked up one day near the beach. I was 17 in Perth West Australia and I had never seen anything like it. it was low & wide. so mean. It looked lethal.
Ace video! In relation to the single mirror early version or the monospecchio apparently it was Ferrari who misinterpreted the DOT laws and thought the single mirror was a way of complying! Once they had realised the mistake they went back to a standard 2 mirror set up!
I like what I call the Car Stereo Anti theft device, that is the flap that covers the stereo, one of my fav quirks....They have them in the 348 as well......I hope the Testarossa doesn't increase too much in value before I can add one to the stable!! Great video as always, looking forward to the next one.
You missed the boat… Their prices have BLOWN up!
One of my absolute dream cars. I remembet that in 2008 you could win one via a radiostation/tv channel called Veronica here in the Netherlands. I was 10 years old. But that didn't stop me from picking up the phone and calling them exactly 28 times. My parents were not happy with the phone bill that month
By the way
Your trousers seem to be defective 😶
There's nothing like a gorgeous lady driving a gorgeous Ferrari Testarossa . I've REALLY enjoyed this video
First time I visited you UA-cam channel...it's great!!!!!😊👍
Thanks!
Doesn't it sound great! The engine layout is in fact identical to the Boxer, both having the flat twelve on top of the gearbox. The TR just moved the radiator(s) to the rear, giving it the big hips, but avoiding having the coolant pipes running under the cabin floor and acting as you say like a Roman hypocaust. FYI, I know it's an American accent thing but the way you are saying Testarossa actually means 'Pink head' in Italian. Roso/rosa, with the 'o' like in rose, nose, pose etc means pink. Rosso/rossa as in possum, boss, cossack etc is the adjective that means red.
Thanks for the lesson! Cool
Italian here
Testarossa means exactly "Red head". Rosso is red in italian, rossa is declined for feminine as "testa" (head) is a feminine noun.
Pink is "rosa", and you don't decline it for different nouns. Feminine or masculine is always "rosa", there is no "roso".
I still dream of owning this in white color similar to Crockett's.
Bellissima!!! Testarossa ha segnato una storia anche nel cinema come Miami vice ecc Adesso manca solo la Ferrari Mondial 4 valvole è la Ferrari 308 GTS nel film di magnum ... saluti a tutti voi🏆
After the Miami vice era i bought one 20yrs later and kept it for 2yrs and sold it on a sweet deal !
I remember seeing a burgundy metallic Testarossa in Palm Springs California in the fall of 1988. It’s among the 10 most beautiful cars I’ve ever seen.
Love this review!
Great video Colleen and a cool Ferrari . Thx 😊
Hey I dont know how I never saw this video until today🤔
The Testarossa was a car I owned for a very short time. Like many others i loved the style and mystique of this car, loved Miami vice to😎
It was always a special experience driving it, my only issue with it was that the auxiliary belt snapped and it was a read tight sod to change because the space at the front of the engine is so tight.
One quirky quirk was the lock button being in front of the driver on the door as opposed to the rear on the door🤔
But it's a thumbs up from me, as is the video👍
Hey, the Jean's are back🥰🥰
Why'd you get rid of it
@@emobassist he didn’t own this car, as he claims. I know this person.
..they’re lying.
Nobody who uses this MANY emoji’s owns or has OWNED a Ferrari. Nice try tho! 😂 👍 😂 🚗
Thanks coleen always appreciate 👌
Great video. Really enjoyed it.
Thanks glad you liked it
"Testa" not "Tetsa".
"Rossa" (red) not "Rosa" (pink).
But I'll forgive you because it's free content and the video is still excellent.
Mid-engine layout has nothings concerns with low center of gravity , turn the whole big flat12 above its transmission has
I really live close to the Ferrari dealership in Holland 2 min it's special
I had an apartment with a view of a Ferrari dealership, I would sit by the window and see the cars coming in and out with my coffee in hand hehe.
@@AlexiaVon its something special
Pure beauty.
Who the car are the girl😏
Great video, but not without an error - the 365 GT4/BB / 512 BB / 512 BBi also had their gearbox below the engine.
Complimenti a te e all'auto
TeStarossa not TeTstarossa my dear. Also maybe you can talk without sounding surprised all the time or like asking a question endlessly!
Tits & Rosa....
Эта машина символ десятилетия, она прекрасна!
I knew I liked Redheads for a reason. Bellissima! 512 M Dream car for sure.
Great video, really nailed the sound.. Rosso corsa is an interesting color to photograph as it changes color with different exposures. I've had it render yellow before, in your case it went pink!
Yeah, the sunlight didnt help that shot lol
I feel Like A lot of people In The 80s wanted to Have This Thing So Bad
Raise your hand if you drove this car in Out Run!
I have only driven a couple of real Testarossas, including my own.
Yes
Ottar Olsen Nice
my favorite ferrari
Applied Lockheed Skunk Works to your Logo nice Testarossa is my favorite of the era along with Lamborghini Countach .
The side rakes also foil air in to the radiators, as well as add down force since they also ramp up like the rear quarter panels ramp up above the wheels. Which is why they never needed a rear wing spoiler. Though the 1957 Testarossa was beautiful ( Like You only because its awesome you know more about it than i do) Enzo Ferrari told 1957 Jaguar XKSS is the most beautiful car ever made. Thank you for such a thorough presentation great content.
Actually theres a reason our logo is the prancing skunk, has to do with ferrari trying the shut us down years ago. I believe we mention it at the end of our first podcast. :) glad your enjoying the videos!
@@FerrarisOnline Yeah I am new to your channel thank you, thought, I had seen your arm withan F35 Lightning, or F22 Raptor (Coleen). On 2nd video went to your channel story is awesome 1972. Cool, thanks for clarifying the stink
(Skunk Works) of Ferrari trying to shut you down. Good to know that there's a girl who knows about cars 🏎 than me.
Actually the F512M ran from late 1994 to 1996, with only the 1995 model year coming to the US, and only 75 examples came here out of the 501 made in total
Just for completion:US examples had the automatic seat belt mechanism through the entire run but the very early cars(til ‘86).Third stop light is also a US only.As for the habit of “hiding”the radio it was very Common to have the radio stolen and covering it also helped keep a style.Ciao
Is there a front camera installed on this car? Cool, if so.
Tezdaroza no girl it's Testarossa that's like calling the Mustang a "Mustard"
The narrator keeps saying TETsarossa 🤣🤣
interesting you had a dealership service the T R ? what did the ser. Cost ?? , I got to drive a T R at willow springs Raceway at a slower speed they are fantastic cars.. But its the same story with these 80's Ferraris The maint. is the Killer .. Keep Up the Good work Here thanks
That seatbelt business must be an American spec thing, I’ve never seen it in Europe
Correct
Changing the cam belts on a 512 TR still the same process like the one you have? Changing the belts every how many years? And does this still have the old air horn sound?
Definitely 80s not 90s.The early single mirror cars where known as Mono Specchio models. The seat belt runner is only on U.S models. We just had standard seatbelts in England.
Again… all kind of dudes that love to cut corners to get it for less … as per Proper Professional Service…cars like these if you don’t have the money… just buy something else… these cars are for “The Few” in my opinion… and she did an outstanding presentation that is well grounded. These cars need also the open road to run their horses out… they need attention with detail… it’s a Ferrari. Need to say more?
I’ll own one, one day
nice vid
Thanks!
My fav body style
Back in the early 90s I bought my lotus and these were there used. I sat inside and the interior was crap. So cheap looking . I was surprised. That was in 92. Imagine now
BELLE MACHINE
Exelente explication guapa ,saludos bello Ferrari👍🏼
this and the original Acura NSX are the most beautiful cars ever made
Awesome!!👍😊
I have one: Roomy, quiet, space for luggage, glued to the road even automatic AC that works. Impossible to park between cars on the curb side until you install EZ power steering. Look up on UA-cam.
Amazing that 80 years separate that Model T from the Testarossa.
tèsteu-rôza 🤦🏻♂️
I don't understand what's bothering you about the folding ignition key, I've got the same one on my 328 and they were all like that and it works very well 🤗
Are you calling it Tetsarossa? Have I been calling it wrong all my life
Its pronounced Testa-ross-ah. See the Goodyear tire ads (signed off by FNA) featuring the car: ua-cam.com/video/hAgbpZAmcDY/v-deo.html
Lol tetsa
@@Kellsboro Absolutely right. Pronouncing it the way she does is just amateurism.
Tetsaroza! Oh dear. You don’t have to go full Italian or anything, but if you’re going to make a video about a car, please don’t get its name completely wrong. Hard to take anything after that seriously.
You forgot to mention the two wheels styles between early and later cars.
2:15 Having a rear mid-engine car does not give it a low center of gravity. In fact, having the engine on top of the transmission gives it a higher center of gravity. A problem for the Testarossa.
Having a dry sump, makes it possible to place the engine lower. This also takes away turbulence under the car in high speed. The car is totally flat under :-)
If you grew up in the 80's that car would be a Ferrari 308 GTS and Testarossa.
Still having the engine above the gearbox gave it a relatively high centre of gravity. Great video though 👌
They dropped the engine in the 512 so it handled better
Not exactly sure, but I believe those seatbelts are US only. Have never seen them in Europe.
You know ferraris better than most people. Soooo when do you review the 2023 Portofino M Spyder???
When someone sends me a car, i do a review. So as soon as i can publicly do a video on one, i will.
What year is this one?
Wait til guys who grew up in the 80s hit their 50s. Then these babies will shoot up in value again. This car’s core market is still too young to afford it - for now.
lol the "slider" seatbelt is not a convenience feature.
Oh yeah!
Have you done a ferari 348 ts?
Havnt had one in since we started doing videos. We have done the 348 challenge though
ua-cam.com/video/8CFXkiHziiU/v-deo.html
I like the rear end to be wider than the front end
Wow a Fiat Dino 2400 Spider, thats pretty rare. With hardtop!
graduating hs in 84 means...i must have one. But not at the top of the list yet.
It's not when you grew up in the Nineties but Eighties because this car was introduced in 1984. And although the Testarossa was popularized by the series Miami Vice (Enzo gave a white Testarossa to Don Johnson), kids had a poster on the wall of a Lamborghini Countach not the Testarossa.
Well i had the poster. Im 90s kid sooo...
Also testarossa were produced from 84 to 91 and the 512 tr and m from 92 to 96.
@@FerrarisOnline Haha, maybe a poster from your dad... Those posters come on for sale and in folding form in to magazines during the introduction of the particular model not ten years later or so. I had a poster from a Ferrari 312 T2, Kenny Roberts (Yamaha motor racing World Champion) and a Countach. The Countach was so much more outrageous than the Testarossa and therefore much more popular with teenage kids.
The flying mirror car is on the '86s only.
The early Testarossas were fitted with the famous single high mirror, also known as the "flying mirror". The strange location of this mirror was related to a European law regarding the external rear view mirror, which was interpreted by the designer as the need of having 100% rearward visibility. As this simply was an incorrect interpretation of the law, Ferrari later decided (also after many complaints about the single high mirror) to use double low mirrors, first shown on the Geneva show in 1986. The first cars having double low mirrors were s/n 67079 for Euro versions and s/n 67487 for US versions (first US car with Model Year 1987).
Please note that there are also early Testarossas with double high mirrors or with double low mirrors.
In both cases, this was NOT original and done by the dealers or by the owners.
It's not tetsarosa, it's testarossa! As in test and ross.
Anyone remember Miami vice and the white testarossa with the single flying mirror.
Hurry and buy this Ferrari so this Nice Gal can buy new pair of Pants with out holes. The 80s was Best Decade
I was non plussed when it came out. I preferred the 512 BB for it's purity of purpose. I experienced a fellow with one about to need the cam belt service. He started it every weekend, Sunday at about 7am. After a few months I decided the car was fantastic. I suggested he sell his Viper, Corvette, and airplane and go ahead and service his Ferrari....I think he sold the TR, sadly.
FERRARI Testosterone 😜
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@@FerrarisOnline Do you have a patreon? Could get you some pants?