I Rented A 30 Year Old Ferrari For $2,000 Per Day And It's FALLING APART

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Today, I rent the oldest Ferrari you can rent in the country - a 1994 Ferrari 348 - and see how it fares against hours of terrible Los Angeles traffic. This is gonna take a while. Andiamo!

[digitalcareline]

That's $200 to rent the car, $1, 000 to insure it and $800 for the tow truck to follow you

[Lewis_Treff]

That's a £50-60k Ferrari. $2000 a day sounds nuts

[aranteen]

2k a day is crazy expensive for a car that isn’t in great condition.

[TheGuccibane]

Tires mismatched for 2k a day? Forget the other stuff. The audacity of people

[RichEarll]

Reminds me of 25 years ago, living in London. Jumping in my less than perfect Peugeot 205 GTi, driving through London in the early hours, ultimately driving to Stone Henge, just as the sun was rising on a summers day, just me and the car, my Pioneer CD player cranking out some tunes, no one else around. As an experience, I’ll never forget that despite my existing car being massively faster. Me and the pug had a moment. Perfect.

[PJtheAudiTech]

It ain’t a Testarossa but definitely giving vibes of the video game ‘OutRun’. Great stuff Bud!! 👌🏽

[leemarshall]

Freddy I’ve said it once and I will say it again and again, you are a GEM and you deserve everything you are given!!!

[bradleytaylor]

Nailed it and Mailed it brother! Awesome to share the experience with you… TY

[Eddiedji]

My 49 Cadillac does the same for me. No it’s not fast, no it’s not mint, no power brakes, heat, ac, power steering. However I love the old girl! I love driving the country roads, I love when people stop me at the gas station because the fuel cap is under the break light. It makes me happy, and it makes others happy as well.

[stevenmacdonald]

Loved this episode. A true driving video, with all the fun that should go with every road trip. As a Brit, confined to 874 miles long, and 400 miles wide (never more than 72 miles from a coastline.) The vast country you can drive across in the United States is pure envious.

[diedus]

Your laugh is almost as funny as Matt Armstrong and his dad, Matt just gets a little crazier and more animated, but your laugh is up there and makes this old Michigan lady smile. I've been grounded until my knee replacement surgery heals up. My surgery took over 3 hour's, instead of the 45 minutes or less, because i had a growth wrapping around the tendons on the back part of my knee, along with cutting out numerous bone spurs from a high calcium problem i had fixed that left bone spurs everywhere in my body. I just had my 2 week post op appointment today, and it looks like they fixed it, but they couldn't get all the bone spurs, but they won't affect my knee. I hate not being able to work on my 54 m38a1 military jeep, but i hate the snow and cold up north here, and in the spring, i hope to be 100%. Thanks for the video, it helps me get through being trapped lol. I think it's cool you rented this old Ferrari, wish i could afford to rent one, i think it would be a blast. Please just don't buy a cyber truck or the other EV's, theh pollute the earth worse than petro car's, mlstly through the destruction of the earth for all the precious element's needed to build the thing's, and nobody has a plan for how to dispose of the toxins when they die. Plus you can't beat the sound of the gas engine when it's lutting out all that
ower. G-d bless.

[EyeMWing]

Your 140 miles in 6 hours is a lot better than what I got a few months ago doing the reverse of that route - it took me TWELVE HOURS. I was due in to have lunch with some people. I ended up arriving straight to my hotel at 10PM. It was all traffic coming back from a 3 day weekend on Lake Havasu, literally every brodozer with a boat trailer squeezed onto the same stretch of blacktop and I blundered straight into it.

[rayvyn]

Saying "not that expensive" followed by 60k is insane. For me, "not that expensive" is an 8$ burrito.

[maddog]

That car is still available to rent on Turo out of LAX. It’s Max $700 a day on the high end, but a lot lower depending on when you rent it and what deals you’re getting. You can check for yourself.

[Eaglevisiontsi]

Tavarish: I absolutely have to make sure this car gets me to an event tonight
Also Tavarish: let's drop it down 2 gears and take it to redline 😅

[toddhibbs]

Driver's seat storytelling worthy of the glory days of Top Gear. Good job @Tavarish.

[Rod-du]

Your enthusiasm is infectious!! Driving a real car 30 years old or not is special and watching you have that experience is testament to that. Love your videos. 👍🏼👍🏼

[flyingtoothpick]

while I'm not Ferrari money, this made me think about the trips in my dad's 80 z28 Camaro, t top, 454 big block, deep brown paint, me, my brother and our buddy as passengers, listening to cassettes, and driving through the Colorado mountains. I'm not 100% sure why, but it made me think of the freedom and adventure, the curvy roads and the wind in the air of that time. thank you so much, loved the vide.

[_Haris]

Bro when is the F355 Berlinetta conversion project gonna get started. The scream of that V8 makes me really miss that car.

[vincevassallo]

Interesting to see someone of your age group expanding their interests to "older" Ferraris. ;) I have owned several 348's and part-owned an F355. Hated it. The 348 is the absolutely last pure Ferrari sports car. From the F355 on, all Ferraris had their "edges" softened. Witness, the front-engined GT cars (456, 550, etc.) and the driver-convenienced V-8's with their power steering, adjustable suspensions, F1 gear boxes, more computer controls, interior cossetting, et al (360, 430, etc.). This is why I keep coming back to the model. A couple of points of clarification though: the car you rented was an early '94 348 Spider as seen by the engine cover black paint. The snap tab along the back of the top along the engine cover is supposed to be attached to the convertible top cover/tonneau. The cracked driving light is an NA part that will be impossible to find, though there are alternatives available. Hopefully the owner does not find you responsible - that would be a mess. The heater code E8 refers to the heater water pump failure (never had this issue so can't tell you what it entails). The engine output for US cars was 312 HP and the ROW cars were 320 HP. The final drive ratio for the car is 4.75, hence the acceleration and comparatively high rpm at higher freeway speeds. The 348 had numerous upgrades and changes through it 1989-1995 partial MY's and the Spiders ended being the best of the US cars. I am glad you were held to lower speeds because an unmodified 348 can get really dicey at higher speeds, like above 100 mph depending on crosswinds. $2K a day for that car was not fair, IMO, since it was far from average condition. We've seen in excess of 10K miles on these nearly bulletproof (for Ferrari) engines so 85K was nothing. The 348 is also one of the last Ferrari models that you can actually work on most of the components, not needing proprietary diagnostic computers. The 1st gear downshift is not ever recommended unless you are good at double clutching. I don't think it's synchroed. Lastly, Freddy, you should get one to have in your collection as a reminder of Ferraris were when they offered a pure driving experience to people who (at least) tried to be skilled drivers. Cheers.