[00:08] Well, welcome to a new Harry's Garage
[00:09] video. And today's car, look at it. It's
[00:12] a Ferrari 360 Challenge Chadali. And I
[00:16] can remember when this car was released
[00:17] in 2003. There was much excitement at
[00:21] Evo Towers. And we had it in car of the
[00:24] year in about November 2003 in this for
[00:28] this issue. And that was out in Italy.
[00:30] And that was the first chance I had to
[00:33] drive this car. And I'm sorry to say
[00:35] that it was the last time I drove a
[00:38] challenge because the scooter came along
[00:40] and then the special. So it's been
[00:42] fantastic to revisit the challenge
[00:45] sedari from 2003. So much on this car to
[00:49] go through. They did a 348 competition
[00:51] but very low numbers around 50. But this
[00:54] car was at peak Ferrari Michael Schumaca
[00:58] era. They're winning F1 championships
[01:00] every year and I think it's a
[01:03] significant Ferrari. Let's go and have a
[01:05] closer look. Now looking back at the
[01:08] original first drive John Barker did on
[01:10] this car at Firano with the factory.
[01:13] Their ambition was the Charisalia was
[01:16] going to be at least 3 seconds quicker
[01:18] round Fano. It ended up being 3 and a
[01:20] half seconds quicker. And they did it
[01:23] mainly by reducing the weight of the
[01:25] car. Um, trick suspension on it as well,
[01:28] which I'll run through. Better brakes
[01:31] and a little bit more horsepower. And
[01:33] the first change you can see is just at
[01:35] the front. They had a slightly different
[01:37] sort of air down around here. And this
[01:40] is a lighter weight construction because
[01:41] you got to remember the the Ferrari 360
[01:44] arrived and this was aluminum car. They
[01:47] really took the weight down. But this
[01:50] car in ultimate spec was about 110 kilos
[01:54] lighter than your regular 360 F1. But
[01:57] you had to tick a lot of boxes to get
[01:59] there. But first thing you notice you
[02:00] come around the challenge wheels. One of
[02:02] the best designed wheels I think fitted
[02:05] on a Ferrari. So distinctive and hiding
[02:09] in there are the carbon discs from the
[02:12] Enzo that we've just seen. So the
[02:13] Ferrari Enzo brakes on a 360. We love
[02:17] that. titanium wheel nuts as well. These
[02:21] beautiful carbon mirrors you can see
[02:24] here. Unbelievable the construction on
[02:26] them and highly prized today. And then
[02:29] if I open the door,
[02:33] look at the door, the door trim. So pure
[02:36] carbon fiber, everything stripped out.
[02:38] And we'll have a look at more detail on
[02:40] the interior, but the things you want to
[02:41] notice is this metal. You can just see
[02:44] it shining over there. Just get rubber
[02:45] mats. They've basically chucked all the
[02:48] sound deadening out, all the carpet
[02:50] that's gone in the dust bin and they've
[02:53] added a sort of carbon different center
[02:55] console. You'll see there these
[02:57] beautiful carbonbacked seats. You can
[03:00] see well fully carbon t even the
[03:03] adjuster was in carbon as well. And then
[03:06] if I just lift the engine. Yeah, the
[03:08] engine cover.
[03:10] Lexium plastic there. Carbon finish.
[03:13] slightly different design at the back.
[03:16] And there it is. Now, the engine, they
[03:19] didn't add a massive amount of
[03:20] horsepower, an extra 20 horsepower, 420
[03:22] horsepower on here, but all carbon here.
[03:25] This is before sort of Cub uh Ferrari
[03:28] started charging extra for carbon. You
[03:30] got it within the price of the car. I
[03:32] think it was £26,000 more than a regular
[03:35] 360. £133,000
[03:38] in 2003. works out at about4 of a
[03:42] million pounds in today's money and a
[03:44] much lighter um exhaust system on it. 7
[03:48] kilos um saved by this and my god it's
[03:52] loud and you can see the sort of valving
[03:54] on it that opens up for freeer revving.
[03:57] That's part of the change to get the
[03:59] horsepower. They also got a slightly
[04:01] bigger airflow meter on it. And looking
[04:04] at the original test, they say basically
[04:06] it was blueprinted engine. So yeah,
[04:09] that's why there wasn't a massive lift
[04:11] in power. The other thing just to note
[04:13] is I'll just close this up.
[04:18] This challenge sedar, this black mesh
[04:21] here became a signature and people
[04:24] wanted it on their standard Ferrari 360s
[04:28] because it that was how you recognized
[04:30] it on the road. Down here though, you've
[04:32] got this extra venturi carbon fiber down
[04:35] here for extra arrow as well. But
[04:39] overall 360 is a beautifully well.
[04:43] Pinferina design obviously. Um I think
[04:46] it looks fantastic. And you got a proper
[04:49] boot up the front as well. So there you
[04:51] go. There's a quick run around the 360
[04:53] Channidali. Let's take it outside. Take
[04:55] it for a drive.
[05:05] Wow. Yeah. What a cabin this is when you
[05:08] get in. Um so stripped out and the metal
[05:11] and these welds you see everywhere and
[05:13] just these sort of rubber mats. You just
[05:15] see rivets sort of where the seat is
[05:17] sitting. It's like a sort of race seat.
[05:19] It is a road racer for the road. I'm
[05:22] quickly going to get the belts on. Some
[05:24] Chan dollies come with conventional
[05:26] belts. Some owners optioned a fourpoint
[05:29] harness as in this one, but um it is a
[05:32] Ferrari quite like it's got the Ferrari
[05:33] crest on there and things. And I'm going
[05:35] to fire the car up, turn the key,
[05:39] immobilizer,
[05:41] and then press start down here in this
[05:45] unique sort of center console. Take the
[05:47] handbrake off cuz it's an awkward thing.
[05:50] And I think the most recognizable thing
[05:52] when you get in is just in when you open
[05:54] the door and just see that door car the
[05:58] of carbon and it's light the door when
[06:01] you open it you know it's a road racer
[06:04] and I love distinctive sort of titanium
[06:07] finish and the door handle and although
[06:10] it's got electric windows they're here
[06:12] the switches are here and met by yellow
[06:16] taco there and this sort of heavy sort
[06:19] of suede
[06:20] non-reflective dashtop and then there's
[06:23] all sorts of colors and things being
[06:24] bespoke Ferrari. This one as you can see
[06:27] in red. The slightly peculiar thing was
[06:30] I was trying to work out this car has
[06:31] air conditioning cuz there's no air
[06:33] conditioning off. So when I initially
[06:34] got in I thought oh it can't have air
[06:37] conditioning but it was blowing cold air
[06:39] at me on a warmest day. And yes they
[06:42] came as standard with air conditioning
[06:44] which you wouldn't expect with all this
[06:46] lightness going on. They just said
[06:48] usability was important. And then behind
[06:50] me, another option on this car, it's got
[06:53] the roll cage in it. Um, which is an
[06:56] unusual fitment, but it's beautifully
[06:58] done. And it's got a radio. And that
[07:02] means you've got little tweeter sort of
[07:05] speakers under the dash and then a big
[07:08] couple of speakers in the middle there
[07:09] cuz you can't have any in the door
[07:11] because you got that carbon door card.
[07:13] So, there's no door speakers in this
[07:16] car. and Alcantara finished seats. And
[07:20] I'll talk about the seats later as well
[07:22] because they're fantastic. They're
[07:24] really usable.
[07:26] Down here, what else have I got? I've
[07:27] got mirrors start. I've got LC is a
[07:30] launch control, ASR off, race, which is
[07:34] sort of a sport button, but being a
[07:36] tanali is race. Um, door lock and
[07:40] hazards and reverse. So normally you had
[07:42] that the funny little tea bar in this
[07:43] age of Ferrari. But on the Stanis Sedali
[07:46] you get an R to press. What else? Yeah,
[07:48] just world championship. There they all
[07:51] are. 99 2000 2001 2002 2003 plaque on
[07:55] the dash. Right, let's crack on.
[08:00] The other interesting thing with this
[08:02] car, no auto button. It's manual. Well,
[08:04] it's it's automated manual from the
[08:07] start, but there's no auto setting,
[08:09] which is quite right, too. an old
[08:10] challenge to Darling. And you can
[08:13] probably hear the engine, which we'll
[08:15] discuss later when we head out onto some
[08:18] better roads.
[08:28] Just in normal mode
[08:39] and a gear change speed is from a bygone
[08:42] age. This is sort of the first of the
[08:45] automated manuals. Although this was an
[08:48] iteration above it was a quicker change
[08:50] than the regular 360. But um it's
[08:53] something you notice when you get in.
[08:55] It's a quite a relaxed change.
[08:58] It's I think they're around 300
[09:00] milliseconds change, but if I press
[09:02] race, it does harvest speed. Goes down
[09:05] to 150. But I'll come on to that in a
[09:07] moment. But generally on the first time
[09:10] you get into it, you're expecting this
[09:12] really hardcore, this really noisy car,
[09:16] um, really stiff riding. And a number of
[09:19] those things are not present. And uh
[09:22] it's just odd that you know 20 years on
[09:26] the ride it's it's all right actually.
[09:29] It's perfectly livable with I don't feel
[09:32] like a GT3 RS 996 or something like
[09:35] that. It rides fine. I can't you know
[09:37] it's like a normal Yeah. 360. The spring
[09:40] rate is actually up 20% looking at the
[09:43] spec of it. And but the really neat
[09:46] thing is the springs in this are made of
[09:48] titanium. All part of the lightness
[09:50] trick.
[09:52] Then the other surprise is measured the
[09:56] sound on my noisy bit of road. 79
[09:59] dibels. Again, much lower than you
[10:01] expect with all the sound deadling gone.
[10:04] Just looking at the dash, I've got oil
[10:07] temperature, water temperature, oil
[10:09] pressure. And then in the taco, I've got
[10:13] the gear indicator. So in third, and
[10:15] then a speedo. There's no digital
[10:17] speedo. and a fuel gauge and a few
[10:19] instruments down there. This is the era
[10:21] Ferrari before the Manitina arrived on
[10:23] the F430. So, I have a clean wheel, but
[10:26] you know, airbagged. Okay. But the one
[10:29] thing you got to watch on this wheel is
[10:31] the horn push. It's just where your
[10:33] thumb rests. It's the same as on the
[10:35] Enzo. And yeah, it was one of those
[10:38] things every now and then. Oh, sorry. I
[10:40] didn't mean to blow the horn when you're
[10:41] on road test with this car. But anyway,
[10:43] let's just select a race. And I'm going
[10:47] to go into second down here and then
[10:49] hoof up the hill.
[11:06] Suddenly you have this car energized and
[11:10] uh yeah, gear chains get that much
[11:12] quicker. It actually changes the damper
[11:14] setting as well. um just stiffens those
[11:17] up and just loosens off the ASR, the
[11:20] traction control, but it's very drivable
[11:23] once it's in race. I'd almost say in
[11:25] today's world, you always press race and
[11:29] yeah, it makes it even more vocal on the
[11:31] outside. The weird thing about the
[11:33] exhaust sound on this car is again it's
[11:36] it's not intrusive inside the cabin. If
[11:40] you are standing outside or following
[11:42] this car, you think, "What the hell?
[11:44] How's that thing legal? It's properly
[11:47] loud on the outside, but weirdly quieter
[11:50] on the inside than you would think it
[11:52] should be. And visibility out terrific.
[11:54] I just love the view. I think after F40,
[11:58] was this the first Ferrari that really
[12:00] showed off its engine? What a statement
[12:03] 360 was under that the great big pane of
[12:06] well perspects in this car. And you see
[12:08] the red crack on top of the cam covers.
[12:11] All beautifully laid out with the air
[12:13] cleaners either side. Both the engine
[12:15] and little water cooler and the alloy
[12:16] screw tops for water and oil and things.
[12:20] Dry sumped engine. So it dropped right
[12:22] down.
[12:33] Yeah. Performance on this car 4.2 2
[12:35] seconds to 60 cuz it's not a huge jump
[12:38] in horsepower over the regular 360, but
[12:42] they did drop the weight. I weighed this
[12:43] car and it went 1360 kilos, which will
[12:49] be slightly more just because of that
[12:51] roll cage. And actually having the radio
[12:54] and electric windows was quite a heavy
[12:57] add-on. They reckon around 30 kilos just
[13:00] because of those two.
[13:03] It might take a second round here.
[13:19] Oh yes. And a little bit of gravel as
[13:22] well. Yeah. It's all sorts of sounds
[13:24] just breaking into the air. You hear the
[13:26] scrub of the brakes. If I break now, you
[13:29] could It's like a rough pad onto the
[13:31] carbon discs. They were new technology
[13:34] back then. But again, I use this road
[13:37] because it's rubbish and it has a
[13:39] terrible surface and it's quite bumpy
[13:41] and it's dealing with them way better
[13:44] than you'd expect this car to. One thing
[13:47] it does do is a little bit of following
[13:49] the camber, but being, you know, track
[13:53] refugee, they're very stiff suspension
[13:55] joints on it. That's sort of with the
[13:58] territory. It's not too bad. It's not
[14:00] grabbing it from my hand, but it's Yeah,
[14:03] I have got a lot of information coming
[14:05] through on the wheel. Three turns lock
[14:08] to lock. The steering isn't it's sort of
[14:11] star turn, but compared to today's cars,
[14:14] it's it's bit terrific. Blips on the
[14:17] wheel gain as I'm in race. You can hear
[14:19] it just does the blip for you.
[14:23] That was all exciting stuff back in
[14:25] 2003.
[14:29] as was that.
[14:34] And really, you've got to rev this car
[14:37] to get the most out of it. And it's
[14:39] actually quite short geared. Top speed
[14:42] on the 360
[14:44] was 186 mph cuz it runs out of revs.
[14:48] Yes, it's in that day and age where it
[14:50] will absolutely hit the red line in top.
[14:52] It's top speed. It's going to let the
[14:55] revs fall down in second. So, 35 mph,
[14:58] 4,000 RPM.
[15:04] How does it cope with this compression?
[15:06] Okay.
[15:09] Love those blips. Now,
[15:13] there's those valves that open in the
[15:15] exhaust as soon as it gets to about 4
[15:18] and a half, five. Just depends on the
[15:20] throttle opening.
[15:22] Wow.
[15:24] Yeah. Very exciting.
[15:40] Right. Times was on likes and dislikes.
[15:43] I suppose the main dislike is just the
[15:45] speed of gear change. My goodness, we
[15:46] moved on. Time you got to 430 scooter
[15:49] air, that was changing gear in 60
[15:52] milliseconds. The fastest this can do is
[15:55] 150 milliseconds, which is all right,
[15:57] but you really notice it if you don't
[15:58] have it in race. Two, they have got
[16:01] expensive recently. Um, I'll discuss
[16:05] that in a conclusion because there is a
[16:06] reason for it. And this car is actually
[16:08] for sale. My son has got it in Metav
[16:11] Cars. I saw it coming. I said, please
[16:13] can have a go in that. He also has a
[16:15] really trick Lancia just come in. Lancia
[16:18] hyenas. I'll be testing that as well.
[16:20] Anyway, I digress. What else? Um, yeah,
[16:24] noisy. It's It's properly noisy on the
[16:26] outside. Slightly embarrassing, so you
[16:29] have to be aware of it if you're driving
[16:31] it in builtup areas or where noise might
[16:33] be an issue. But the likes proper proper
[16:38] road racer. Um, it it I just love this
[16:41] stripped out. You can tell Ferrari's put
[16:43] a lot of effort into getting this car
[16:45] right. And it's fested with bespokeness
[16:48] everywhere I look. And I think it looks
[16:51] terrific on the outside and all the
[16:54] improvements, all the everything we want
[16:57] as a driver's car, they put on it. The
[17:00] the steering, I've seen criticism of the
[17:02] steering. This is on new fresh rubber
[17:05] boots. Uh Michelins, I don't find it an
[17:08] issue actually. I really quite like it
[17:11] and I quite love the performance and
[17:13] that oh gear change is fantastic as
[17:16] well. And
[17:20] bottom corner. There's quite a lot
[17:22] there. Goodbye to the front. Wow.
[17:27] Wow.
[17:29] Wow.
[17:32] Go.
[17:42] Lots of sounds in this car. Love the
[17:44] stripped out nature. how you can hear
[17:46] the brakes when you break it and the
[17:48] grab on the road. All that sort of thing
[17:50] just gives it that unique sense that
[17:53] you're in something very special.
[18:02] I'm just just changing gear for the fun
[18:04] of it.
[18:20] Wow. Yeah. So, what do I think of
[18:23] Transari? Well, it's been wonderful to
[18:25] revisit this car and get to know it
[18:28] again. I've always thought Scooter is
[18:31] ahead, but there's something pretty
[18:34] special with this talent sedan because
[18:35] it was the first of the breed. And I
[18:39] love how hard Ferrari worked on it to
[18:42] get it this good, this bespoke. You know
[18:45] you're in a chance. Special mention to
[18:47] the seats and the usability has come as
[18:50] a complete shock on this car. It's up
[18:52] against I think why it's got so
[18:54] expensive today is because the limited
[18:57] run Ferraris, you know, 288, F40, Enzo,
[19:01] etc. have just gone off into the
[19:03] stratosphere. What's the next super
[19:07] driver focused Ferrari limited run cars?
[19:10] Well, it's Channister Dari and then it's
[19:12] scooter rear and then it's special and
[19:15] things. That is why there's so much
[19:17] interest in these cars. I believe they
[19:20] were just about affordable a year ago
[19:22] and then everybody has clamored to get
[19:25] them. They're all actually scooter and
[19:28] chastis around the same price and then
[19:30] special is a leap up from this. And you
[19:34] got to remember China is the rarest of
[19:36] them all. I mean it's um 1,288
[19:39] of these and then there's near enough
[19:43] 2,000. Scooter is 1,800 2,000
[19:46] speciali you have 3,000 odd and pista is
[19:50] 4,000 odd. So that is why the values of
[19:54] Chinese are higher. And personally just
[19:57] driving it the the scooter here is
[20:00] quicker. It's 4 point, you know, 700cc,
[20:03] bigger engine, more torque, more
[20:04] asparag, nearly 100 horsepower more. But
[20:07] it's the bespokeness of this and the
[20:09] fact that I can drive it sort of flat
[20:12] out. I can get closer to its limits is
[20:14] what I really like. This scooter here is
[20:16] a properly quick car while this is sort
[20:20] of manageable. 4.2 to 60 is very
[20:23] manageable on today's roads. And yeah,
[20:26] it's a very special car. So there you
[20:29] go. I'm going to enjoy a bit more of
[20:31] this cracking bit of road. It suits
[20:34] actually suits this car really well.
[20:36] Whoa.
[20:52] Yeah. Been loaded. You can hear it rev
[20:54] out like that.
[20:56] So there you go. Whoa.
[21:00] Quickly take it around here.
[21:04] Yeah, it's quite loose that.
[21:10] There you go. Had to do that. Sorry if I
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