512TR is my favourite of the trio with more power than the original Testarossa and better handling according to the motoring press. The 512M is the best in most respects but I'm not a fan of the looks.

@MyKeeP81

Жыл бұрын

512tr all day

@hayabusaorlovina2761

Жыл бұрын

Agree totally. And let's just forget about 512M. That was...um... Let's say experiment...

@melxb

10 ай бұрын

bingo the og has the best look especially the front grill/nose, it just looks uglier on the 2 follow-up models

@betancourt564

7 ай бұрын

That one, if you can change to Monospechio and the old squared seats would be perfect in my opinion. The old seats have more character.

Man I love the format and enthusiasm in this series, keep it up !

I always liked the 512TR appearance better than the original Testarossa. Till, i saw them along side each other. That larger grille looks so much better. I don't like the TR wheels as much. But, i appreciate it is a better car. i would have a 512TR with original Testerossa nose and a single flying mirror on one side. Best of both worlds.

@NocturnalPLUR

Жыл бұрын

Exactly my thinking

@user-ze5gs2jq7f

Жыл бұрын

😊

I am the proud first owner of a TR , silver with black leather, I am in love with it. I made over 50000 km in 2 years and touch wood never let me down. It was my daily driver yess I know ..I was crazy went all over Europe ..;l Looking at her moves me me still today :-))))

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

You legend!

@tam340r5

Жыл бұрын

@@TheCarGuysTV i made some crazy things yessss :-) like I wrote it was my DD and I got a broken shoulder arm (off road biking) I drove this TR during the winter on snow :-) with just my right arm and changing gear blocking the steering wheel with my leg and changing gears with my only valid arm…you can imagine parking the car with one arm , turning the steering wheel blocking it and turning again….and you know how the steering is light :-)))…(sorry for my basic and bad English) I am a big fan of you and your channel !

@lebojay

Жыл бұрын

I would use mine like that if I didn’t care so much about preserving its value. Wish I didn’t have to care about that, but I do.

Great video. Editing brilliant. Surely the best reference video on the history of the Testarossa . Well done. Thank you Damien for all the work you put into this review. Regards. Richard.

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, Richard 👍🏻

@bruceclaridge5717

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant reviews. I owned a RHD giallo TR with black carpets!, and later a RHD 512 TR in Giallo. I drove both cars extensively in France and Italy.IMO the 512 was a much superior car to the TR which was a little unstable at high speed.

Really good comparison of the Testarossa variants from someone who really cares. Please keep producing these videos, Damian.

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

I’ll try

A great presentation of my favourite car. I drove 800 km in the south of Germany and Austria with the 512 TR back in 2000, and it’s still the best driving experience ever! I will never forget the sound and the feeling. And I never get tired of looking at it either 😍 Thanks for sharing this video.

I remember in the mid to late 2000s, Testarossas were available in the US starting around $40,000-$50,000. It seems that ship has sailed, unfortunately, and 512 TRs are significantly more expensive--which is a shame, because I'd love to have one! 😆

Thank you for this great video 👍🏻👍🏻

Wow, those sound amazing! I’d forgotten just how wide they are too. Great video again, please keep it up. Your enthusiasm for these cars is obvious and you’re a lucky guy to get to ring the beans out of them in the lower gears👍

Just absolutely loving this series. So much passion, knowledge and enthusiasm. Absolute gem of a KZread channel. High five Damian 🙏

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

I would love either of these examples! And great video D!

That 512 TR is just AWESOME! 🤤 Love it! 😍 (Though both examples look superb!) Brilliant vid Damian, you are on top form, Sir! 👍🏻 (I like the old Fischer C-Box cassette holders).😜

@pekka75

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree Mr. Oxley! 🤩

Fabulous episode, Damien. What an iconic Ferrari. I recall being in Monaco in 1992 and watching as 3 Testarossa's came up the hill to park in front of the casino. I was awestruck.

GREAT review! Just subscribed and I bummed that I'm just now finding your channel. Wonderful delivery (without being cheesy) and top notch production. Thanks!

That send at the end was the best . . . wowww!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

Absolutely love the 512TR but I think it's a very scary car to own maintenance wise

@justsomeguy1141

Жыл бұрын

I owned one for 5 years. I left it parked in Gatwick airport overflow parking for 3 weeks once, I drove it fast and slow in all weathers. It never missed a beat!! It was totally reliable and never let me down

@adamellistutorials

Жыл бұрын

@@justsomeguy1141 Did the battery not go flat?

@justsomeguy1141

Жыл бұрын

@@adamellistutorials Nope

@johnnyboy1586

Жыл бұрын

I might be wrong but I think harry from harry's garage said it's quite easy to live with on the maintenance side

@iVTECInside

Жыл бұрын

I know someone that owned one for a few years. The larger scheduled items can be a little pricey, but day to day there were no major surprises. Then again, it didn't get driven a whole lot.

I love it when you said that fire exstinguisher it's not a detail on these cars. I got a 512 tr ,engine is bullet proof but unfortunately from time to time starter CPU ,injectors, catalysts are failing...so better to stay on the safe side if you see some dark smoke from the exhaust.Neverthless I'll never sell mine. It's really a special car in every respect.

@lebojay

Жыл бұрын

I carry a fire stick in the glovebox of my TR too. 🔥

Fantastic video!! What a pair of cars! Both sound terrific!

Had a 512 TR for 5 years. Truly fabulous to drive. Sold because of scary maintenance costs...

@justsomeguy1141

Жыл бұрын

I had one too for 5 years, I didn't think the maintenance costs were too bad apart from the engine out belt service. Mine never left me stranded or broke down once and I daily'd it during 8 months a year. Maybe I just got lucky tho. What colour did you have?

Great video and love the information graphics. Looks like the you beefed up. Looks good on you.

Stunning vid!

Wonderful as ever..both amazing..keep them coming 👍

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Ooooh matron! That 512TR.. oof! Now that’s a noise.. even the F12 can’t match.. epic! Love this series!!

Stunning video Damian. Best Drive Every Ferrari so far. Can’t wait to see more. Thank you!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

512TR is so high on my list

Fantastic, thanks for making this video and series. I'm loving this "drive every ferrari" 🤗

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Awesome video Damien, My personal favourite for looks has to be the earlier car. As a child of the 70’s these cars and their main rival the Countach were the poster cars of my generation. After being lucky enough to have an on track Passenger ride in the Countach QV (at Goodwood) , I realised that the Testarossa was definitely the one for me. The airier cabin and better packaging were very evident once I sat in the Ferrari Testarossa. Oh to think that in the early noughties these cars briefly dropped to only £30k!

Thanks Damian! Top episode!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

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Original Testarossa is my favorite standard production Ferrari! Just screams 80’s coolness! 😍

Good Lord! That TR sounds magnificent! Great episode sir. Two fabulous cars.

When I hear the word Ferrari, I always think of the 512 TR and the F355. For me, they are the best Ferrari ever and the starting point of my dream garage. I love Testarossa Monospecchio, with one mirror and centerlock wheels. Yes, the first metal model I also had was the Testarossa. Thank you very much for the video! One of those that can be watched several times. So affected, as if I had just stepped out of the car, overwhelmed with emotions. WOW!

This episode is amazing! I love it kinda comparing the different iconic lives of the Testarossa. No matter what, that car is a must have! And as a poster car, it call still go at least on my wall!!! PS, it was and is, still the reason to watch Mami Vice reruns..

Best film you've done to date! Your passion for the TRs comes through.

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Lee

Please keep doing videos just like this. Knowledge, passion, humour and honest views not influenced by brands or people which is what we need these days!

amazing episode, thank you for sharing

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

Wow, just wow. Flat 12 goodness. I won’t say no to either but that 512TR, jeeeeezus wept 😳🥰

I absolutely love the 512 TR! Great content!

Wowowwow, fantastic episode! Both of them were so lovely! but that 512 TR with that exhaust, oh my! I'd happily take either 😂

I owned a 512TR for 5 years and it was the best car I've ever owned. Comfortable, incredible purebred sound (with an exhaust), fast, head turning and 100% reliable! Such a gem wish I still had it. Much better technically than the original Testarossa too. He's right about the snap though, I span it in the wet come off the roundabout outside Gatwick North Terminal 😂

@adamellistutorials

Жыл бұрын

Why did you sell it? I was a day away from selling my 458 earlier this year. I back out the night before. Best decision I ever made.

@SpacedOdyssey

Жыл бұрын

You can get oversteer snap on most mid engined cars, MR2 is a perfect example

@justsomeguy1141

Жыл бұрын

​@@adamellistutorials I started a property development business. Any other reason I would have kept it.

@justsomeguy1141

Жыл бұрын

@@SpacedOdyssey True but the size of the engine, its power and the sharp nature of the throttle with no TCS makes the 512TR pretty lethal in the wet

Another good informative episode Damian, once again, you have knock it out of the park.

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Damian, thank you so much for this video! Perhaps the best Testarossa video to date!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Cheers, Fred - I’m glad you enjoyed it

I've wanted to see a video on this for years!

This is an awesome video. Just Damon’s reaction to the drive by makes it. What a pair of iconic cars. Also that yellow POPS!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

It sure does

I loved the video, what a fantastic review of this beauty.

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Oh my, the noise that TR makes 🥰 Thank you for sharing!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome

Wow! The sound of the 512 TR was incredible. I love the shot of both cars in one shot screaming away. This was a brilliant video! Thank you

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Another entertaining video Damian, with two of my favourite old school Ferraris to boot. Thank you so much for making these videos for us to enjoy ❤️

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Another class episode. Atb.

Hearing these two made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, fantastic. For me that is the attraction of this generation of super cars, there’s nothing clever going on under the bonnet at all, it’s just pure engine genius. 👍

Another great video Damian, much appreciated. That image of the monspeccia testarossa was the poster that I had on my wall...always preferred it to the Countach, and I still do. It’s the ‘nipple’ over your head the map light?🤔

Fantastic,awesome cars.Cheers,thouroughly enjoyed this episode of drive every Ferrari.

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Your enthusiasm for these cars is contagious. Thanks for all of the great content!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

I love everything about this video This series is just quality. Well done guys 👍🏻

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

Great vid thank you

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

I just kept winding back to the noise of the cars. Another excellent episode! Love what you chaps do.

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

I've seen a lot of reviews on KZread, but this has got to be, one of the absolute best reviews ever. I want a 512 the seeing this. Excellent job 👍

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, John

Damian, Listening to and watching the superb video on those red reads makes me feel as though I am getting a degree a Ferrari degree, for God’s sake! The level of attention to detail and energy you put into these videos is contagious. The analog ‘80’s Ferraris were and still are simply magic. Thank You for another fun video in this fantastic series!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

You're most welcome, Jay

Nice Job on the video! Had both an older 1988 version, sold it, then purchased a 1992 512TR. The difference in performance between the two was significant. The only comment I have on the video is the "nipple" on the overhead. In both my cars, the overhead is not an ac vent, although looks like one, is actually a light. There are (2) overhead lights. the smaller one can be used as a pinpoint light for driver or passenger. Surprisingly, it works well.

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info, Spencer - good to know. I’ll address that in the 512M episode.

Awesome review. 512TR is now my favorite (after the 288 GTO). Funny how you say regarding the dials "I have no idea what these do..." Love it.

Loving this series and standard of video top notch as always. Think the 512TR is my favourite so far.

Might be watching this episode many times, loving the yellow testarossa interior, so cool. It’s one of my dream drives, one day maybe. Always makes me laugh that the main road into Windsor that goes past the great park, is the best kept road in 5he country, I wonder why?

Loved the sound!

this video is a masterpiece, thank you Damian!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Cheers, Vossi

Brilliant. One of your best so far. Some cars are great. Also, there were no streaming pauses that I seem to get only with your videos. If you tweaked something or uploaded in a super optimised format then keep it going pls.

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Garin. No different upload, any streaming pauses must be at your end.

@Ztandard32

Жыл бұрын

Glad it is me and not you.

Oh My God. My FAVOURITE Ferrari's the sound of both was amazing. Thank you so much Damian. I bloody love this series. Cheers mate

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

I would take one of these over the Ferrari SF90 Stradale any day.

Well what can I say…the Testarossa was the first poster in my bedroom, the first scale model I bought (a 1:18 scale Bburago, but I went on to build two 1:8 scale Pocher models as well) and also the first Ferrari I got to experience as a passenger when I was 16 years old. So needless to say this review took me right back to my youth (I too was born in 1972). One of the best vids so far in the Drive Every Ferrari series, Damien. Keep doing what you’re doing!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

God, the original TR sounds absolutely BRUTAL!!!

Top job

Santa Maria! , Madre dios! , Bellissimo! Red head royalty! What a fun episode. They may be wide but they are slick. Thanks for posting, Damian. ** drums fingers on the desktop waiting for a California Spider** *Chris Evans has that black beauty...

A class review of two icons, a great education too so thanks. What a sound from the 512! Brilliant channel & love your videos. I am just waiting for the F50... There is a video on Mr JW's channel of an F50 with a straight pipe. I don't think that sound will ever be beaten....

Nice little slice of automotive pornography! I have to admit that I hated the Testarossa when it first appeared as I was such a big fan of the later 512 Boxers. However, my first drive of a 12 cylinder Ferrari was actually the F512M which was 'interesting' after my little 328GTB. I agree with you that the 512TR is the sweet-spot in the Testarossa range. They've all entered the 'unobtanium' market now for me so I'm slumming it in a 456GTM (haha). Had to have a V12 Ferrari before I shuffled off this mortal coil. Just spent a week up in sunny Lincolnshire in it with the wife and pooch and it performed faultlessly (the car...). Even managed to squeeze almost 20mpg out of it (gasp!). BTW, as a bit of a watch nerd I couldn't help noticing the glint of a gold Submariner on the wrist. Cheers from a rather muggy Otford, Kent.

Always wanted a Testarossa since watching Miami Vice back in the 80s. That yellow car would be my pick even with that brown interior. I bet you got some looks the day you filmed this, to see both these cars would be an epic sight.

Whaow Damien, Thank you very much for a super special video. I'm conflicted out over these two machines! The TR looks the more aggressive and effective machine with better resolved design details however, the colour combination of that yellow original just popping and the ever so subtle interior colours is next level. Fantastico!!!

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Best drive every Ferrari yet, it was really interesting to see the differences between them both, such great cars

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wonderful, bellissimo! The Testarossa sparked my passion for cars, after a very kind owner let me sit in his at a Ferrari day Oulton Park in the early 90s. As a young lad, I became a petrolhead! Cheers Damian and the owners of both beautiful cars

Special day indeed! And the noises. Wow! The old 250 TR was my first Bburago 1:18 too BTW. Loving this series, thank you

Nailing it my friend 🙏🏻

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks for showcasing these two side by side. As much as I can appreciate that the 512tr is a better driving car there is something still about the original Testarossa that I just still cant get past. My obsession with Ferrari’s started with this car, yes I love it more than the F40, and hope to get one in my garage soon. Thank you again for this episode, I truly enjoyed it

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍🏻👍🏻

Just awesome!

Awesome stuff

This channel should be well over a millions subs superb as always sir 👍

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

Testarossa, Testarossi? Really enjoyed the vid, thank you :-)

Going 10km/h even while sitting still! I've always loved the Testarossa and glad to report I'm beginning to see them again in Korea nowdays of all places.

Great vid, formidable cars. It's interesting that you said "forget your Carrera GT's" because, at least in video, the 512TR sounds a lot like the GT's V10, although not as high pitched in the upper revs

Very good, proper old school motoring. Thanks

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Thomas

Beautiful cars I thoroughly enjoyed that

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

Love the 512 TR, reminds of my favourite car game as a kid… Out Run, racing through California

Fantastic cars, fantastic content as always 👍👍

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 👍

The spec of the original Testarossa is gorgeous and the sound of the TR is unreal ! Such an interesting series to follow.

My top 5 car designs of all time, in my own opinion are all ferraris. That says a lot of their design princicples. my #1 would be the f40, #2 the 360. #3 the f50, #4 the 512tr, #5 the 355. Honorable mention, the 348.

Amazing video, love it!! What’s the name of the exhaust on the 512 TR by the way?

Oh, wow! Two at once and such beautiful cars. I can't wait to see the 512 BB- overheating problems notwithstanding, I love that car.

Weekend drink in hand now sit back for a lump of nostalgia the 512 TR is my pick out of these 2

Love this #driveeveryferrari series just brilliant ,think I would have one of these in the garage

@TheCarGuysTV

Жыл бұрын

Cheers, Paul

Good stuff 👍

@TheCarGuysTV

Ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Always loved these cars as a kid. They looked so aggressive with those air intakes and even today is still a head turner. 😎

1st bburago model I had too 👍👌 love that car

That same yellow testarossa was the FIRST Testarossa i drove in my life!!🥰🥰🥰🥰