Blythy
Well-Known Member
Did the Scuderia seem like a past review... say the F430? Well I would hope so, since the Scuderia is an F430. And that's the point. It's an F430, it's as brilliant as an F430, but then it takes it one step further. Remember Jeremy never once turned off the traction control in the F430 and here he's doing the whole second half of the review with it off. He wants to get away from focusing on all the fiddley computer bits and instead talk about the heart of the car and prove that there was still some honest passion left in an Italian car company that's starting to take a page out of the Japanese makers with all their computer controlled everything.
Much like the old EVO review, all the computery bits start to take away from the simple joy of driving. Sure you can take a corner hard and generate lots of smoke and tire squeal, but you don't feel like you're responsible for keeping the car on the road. It's all those damn computers. Jeremy's trying to find a car that puts some honesty (or at least the feeling of) back into driving.
There was nothing wrong with the F430 review, there was just nothing different or more to the point MEMORABLE
To be honest, I'm looking for something like The McMerc brake test, the EVO FQ400 vs Lambo (and subsequently fiat diesel), Drag race against petrol, Apache pisstake - Stuff like that are what makes top gear different from a fifth gear review - things that convey performance in a different way to clarkson going sideways in a powergasm.