The huge stretch that has an airport is the ideal space for Drag Race and as you can see in the video below there are several Tesla Model S and Model 3 where tested on various layouts. However, the match between the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta with the Tesla Model 3 Performance, where the Italian super-car delivers over 700 hp while the 0-100 needs only 3.1 sec. The instantaneous huge torque of the electric Tesla will be able to eliminate the huge Ferrari's power? The answer below.





Description from YouTube channel Matteo Valenza (translated)

Mamma mia! but how much do these tesla electric cars track? even more of a ferrari and the more you unload the stronger they go :D ! In this race you will see tesla model 3 performance and tesla model s p100d struggling with an airport runway to forlì and a ferrari f12 sedan. will electric mobility be the future in sport?

But that noise. Like any V6 Alfa Romeo that came before it, the new Giulia has an engine that snorts like a hound from hell. Or a trumpet from heaven. Your pick. I don't care. It sounds simply fabulous from the video I am sharing with you here. The Giulia Quadrifoglio version which you see in the vid, has an all-aluminum 510 HP 3.0-liter twin turbo V6 tuned by Ferrari engineers and most probably based on the engine that is fitted in the Maserati Ghibli. As is tha chassis, a Ghibli made into a Giulia. .0 - 100kmh in 3.9 seconds.

The main problem I have with this car is that there is no official Alfa Romeo distributors here. The second problem is that the V6 sounds so great that even if there were an agent here it will cost RM450,000 minimum. I think it will cost this much because it is an Alfa based on a Maserati. The Ghibli sells here from around RM538,000. The third problem is that since it is based on the Maserati, servicing one could also be Maserati prices. This means that if you have been a fan of Alfa Romeo in Malaysia, these new Alfa Romeo are not the 'affordable' machines that most can afford.

Anyway, we have another problem. The falling Ringgit. Instead of costing RM450,000 as I am predicting, the Alfa Romeo Giulia may cost a billion Ringgit. Like the currency of Zimbabwe. Where a whole chicken can cost a truckload of paper. This is what happens when foreign investment is pulled out due to lack of confidence with the Government of Malaysia. Or the country as a whole. Why is it that way? A lot of nonsense but mostly RM42billion worth of 1MDB. The reason is simple, a government has been cheated or duped out of 'investing' billions of Ringgit. How much confidence would investors have if a government can be seen to have been cheated by some people?

Whether this is the whole truth, half truth or lies. It does not matter. Confidence levels get hit and right now people are pulling their investments out of Malaysia which is why the Ringgit is losing its value. When there is less interest in a country, the currency demand is less. Oversupply with little demand creates a deflation in value of the currency. But for most Malaysians, expect inflation when buying imported products. Could someone wake up the powers that be so that affirmative action is taken more quickly instead of caring more about dress codes in Government buildings and pasar malam? Wake up lah. Heads should be rolling. Instead of keeping inept people and getting them to try solve the problem, call in some professional clean up crews will you?

And folks. The mismanagement of funds will actually curtail my desire for an Alfa Romeo Giulia. Even though my loins ache for it so badly, that ache may never be satisfied. Aside from the first three reasons of course!

L to R - Datuk Wira Hj. SM Faisal Tan Sri SM Nasimuddin, Group Executive Chairman & Group CEO of NAZA World Group of Companies, Mr. Dieter Knechtel, Managing Director of Ferrari Far East,   Mr. Simon Inglefield, Head of Sales ASEAN, Ferrari Far East,  Mr. David Hector Ratnaike, Senior Vice President 2 of 4-Wheels Division, NAZA World Group of Companies

For me it is simple. Heritage, refinement and then ask yourself what Jeremy Clarkson would say about a purchase. And speaking about Jeremy Clarkson, I am sad to hear that the chap got booted out of TopGear all because of a 'fracas' with a producer. I also hear he is taking his co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond with him and they may soon have their own show without any association with BBC and of course TopGear. Well, good for them. The BBC is in some ways like our RTM. More liberal but still a little fuddy duddy as it does belong to the government of England.

...this underneath it all

Anyway, as for the criteria of 'refinement' in a premium car I'd like it to be quiet, soaks up bumps and potholes with ease so that my daily commute to and from work is as stress free as possible. I want to be cocooned from the outside world as much as possible. That loud exhaust from a kapchai? What exhaust? That lorry belching smoke? What smoke? That stretch of terrible road that MBPJ has not patched up because the council members think too highly of themselves? What pothole?

So this would lead you to buy certain cars that actually cost over RM150,000 in Malaysia. No mean feat as most of us here don't actually earn like what those people doing KPIs for the government want their bosses to think we do. Do you actually believe that the GDP per capita of Malaysia is over USD3,000? Well, these jokers in the government do. But this is besides the point. The point of this article is to explain to you what premium or luxury car you need to buy with your money once you hit that certain level in life. No. A Volkswagen is just entry level premium here. Not a luxury car okay.

So next we have heritage. You would like to own a car that has years of history behind it. This means years of history building luxury and not just run of the mill cars. You could say this means you can avoid Ford, Honda, Toyota, Fiat and a whole lot of others. You could go ahead with Bentley, Rolls Royce, BMW, Audi, Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes Benz. Or could you?

Now we head over to the 'what would Jeremy Clarkson say' criteria. Quite simple. If you bought a Bentley Flying Spur you'd know underneath it is actually an Audi A8 re-engineered to be even more luxurious. If you bought an A8 you'd know that if could be a re-engineered Volkswagen Phaeton. If you bought a Continental GT it could be a re-engineered RS6 which could be a re-engineered CC. If you went and bought a Rolls Royce underneath it all are BMW 7 series parts too. So in this case it would be wise if you bought a Volkswagen Passat or a Paethon instead of an Audi or  a Bentley? Or would it be better to buy the Bentley and know deep down inside that you actually bought a very tarted up Volkswagen or Audi? But if you bought that Audi would you think that deep down inside you know that Audi cold do better as they've engineered Audi platforms into Lamborghinis and Bentleys. 

It is the same if you went and bought a Lexus as Toyota is all about making things efficient and cost effective. Your Lexus is actually a Toyota in makeup. Or cakeup as it wears a heck of a lot to disguise it. The same goes to Infiniti, which is worse. It has no heritage whatsoever and comes from a Nissan that is not a GT-R. Even large premium Volvos still run Ford's EUCD platform for the moment. So it's a Ford underneath it all. 

So what does that leave us with? Not BMW as they build the Rolls Royce and you'd rather have a Rolls Royce with BMW parts in it. And that BMW 7 series could have been built better if not for Rolls Royce being above it. Buy a Rolls Royce? You could, but people may just call you 'Your Majesty' if you're sitting at the back or 'driver' if you're driving it. Unless its a 2 door version. Then you're just driving a very expensive car with BMW parts in it. 

Aston Martin you say? Well, their current platform architecture harks back from the days when they were under Ford's premier automotive group. They're considered small and in fact, the next generation of cars will be running Mercedes-Amg engines.

Of course you could just buy a Maserati, as they actually use Ferrari underpinings to build them. Hey, isn't that better? I would have to say that this is the best in platform sharing. Both are incredible cars which have heritage that I wouldn't mind being a part of. I suppose a Maserati or a Ferrari would be nice. They actually don't share parts with Fiat. In fact even Alfa Romeo is reported to share parts with Maserati in its new rear wheel drive chassis. This I would feel happy to own as I get something extremely bespoke unlike the others mentioned above.

And so we now end it with cars that are actually shared with nothing else but itself, The first being Mercedes Benz. I mean seriously, when you buy a Mercedes Benz it is a Mercedes Benz. These days it may be Mercedes Benz, Mercedes AMG or Mercedes Maybach, but it's actually a bloody Mercedes Benz underneath it all. Amazing isn't it? So buy a Mercedes Benz if you want that luxury car of yours. 

The second one is actually Jaguar. The aluminium chassis XJ series launched in 2009 has their own bits and bobs. They may be owned by TATA group but their cars are fully engineered in the UK. Buy one and you know that it does not share major components with a lesser brand. A good thing yes?

So there you have it. Buy either a Jaguar, a Maserati, a Ferrari or a Mercedes Benz  if you want a proper luxury car. 

Hope this doesn't mess up your luxury car buying dreams.

The Ferrari 365 GTB4 'Daytona' is my favourite Ferrari of all time. It is light years away from the current crop of Ferrari with their cutting edge technology and wind tunnel sculpted looks. This was purity of design. But in 1968 this was considered a milestone in what Ferrari claims to be 'extreme high performance front engined sports car'. It was produced from 1968 to 1973.

It had a 4.4liter V12 making 352hp and 431Nm torque. Autocar tested it in 1971 and recorded a 0-60 mph time of 5.4 seconds, a 0-100 mph time of 12.6 seconds, a standing start quarter mile time of 13.4 seconds at a terminal velocity of 104 mph, and a top speed of 174 mph, a figure that remained as their road test record for a number of years. Remember, this was in the early 1970s. 

But to me the Daytona had nothing to do with pure performance (which it no doubt had). It was the styling. The Pininfarina designed body was what I truly adore about this car. It was just an embodiment of power. A long bonnet, a set back cabin and a short abrupt tail basically conveyed a sense of power. It was as if it was all engine and nothing else. And that was partly why it was, and is so beautiful.