Ferrari F355

I'm pretty hyped for this car, because this was my dream car, when I was a kid. Just as the 512 TR I talked about earlier, it's a classical Ferrari for me, just what I look in a Ferrari. To be honest, it's one of the best sport cars of its era and even today, it is still a beautiful sight on the roads. It was built from 1994 to 1999 and it's relatively common as Ferrari produced 11273 units of them. It's a mid-engined, rear-wheel drive V8 two-seat coupe, targa(you could remove the hardtop yourself, but the roof constructions on engine cover remained) or convertible. This 3.5 litre V8 produced 380HP(279kw) at 8250 rpm, 363NM at 6000 rpm and did 0-100 km/h in 4.6 seconds with a top speed of 300 km/h. The car's frame is a steel monocoque with tubular steel rear sub-frame with front and rear suspensions using independent, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs over gas-filled telescopic shock absorbers with electronic control servos and anti-roll bars. This car allows selection between two damper settings: comfort and sport. Aerodynamic design for the car included 1300 hours of windtunnel analysis. The car's standard seats are upholstered with hides from Connolly Leather, and are fitted asymmetrically in the car, which results in the driver being slightly closer to the car's center line than the passenger. At launch in May 1994, two models were available: the coupe Berlinetta and the targa version GTS. The spider version was introduced in 1995. What's interesting is the fact, that the nomenclature does not follow the formula from the previous decades(engine capacity is followed by number of cylinders), for example Ferrari 246 - 2 and 4 stand for 2.4 litres and the 6 stands for 6 cylinders. For the F355, they used engine capacity followed by the number of valves per cylinder - 3.5 litres engine capacity and 5 valves per cylinder to bring the performance advances introduced by a 5 valve per cylinder configuration intro the forefront. Initially, for the Berlinetta, the 6-speed manual gearbox was the only transmission available. However, in 1997, the Berlinetta was the first ever road car to be equipped with the innovative F1-style gearbox management system. Derived directly from Formula 1, where it made its debut in 1989 winning the Brazilian Grand Prix, the electro-hydraulic system was operated by paddles behind the steering wheel using the F355’s conventional 6-speed manual gearbox. The new transmission guaranteed lightning-quick gear changes, with the additional advantage that both the driver’s hands could stay on the wheel at all times. The average fuel consumption for the Berlinetta was about 15.3 litres/100km. The Berlinetta was priced about 100 000 euros as new, but now it's available for about 40 000 euros. It's now more affordable than ever before. It's truly one of my dream cars and I would truly consider buying it if I wasn't living in Estonia, where the roads are the same as a chocolate cookie crisp. I wonder if it's reliable and easy to work with. The pictures below are the property of MotorCars International and I do not own any rights for these pictures