![]() Steering is extremely light, with a quick ratio. You can fit a jacket, maybe a bag of groceries behind the seats of the 2017 Ferrari California T. The exhaust noise comes on hard at about 3,000 rpm, though I’d rather it ramp up more uniformly, like on the 488 GTB. I didn’t feel any turbo lag, except for maybe on initial takeoff, and this thing revs to at least 7,000 before it loses any steam. And as the modes ramp up from normal to sport to race, they get faster and louder. It has big, metal paddles attached to the column for cracking off six shifts in record speed. It’s surprisingly quiet at idle but wails like a banshee at speed. The first California was beautiful, but a little low on power (453 hp) for a Ferrari with this new turbo version, that wrong has been righted. Some just say “nice car.”Īnd it is a damn nice car. A lot of people will ask you how much it costs. Everyone is definitely going to look, so you need to be OK with that. As mortal, middle-class human, driving a Ferrari makes me feel…anxious. “It’s not mine, I work for Autoweek magazine.”Īnd that’s where I was going with this. “Good for you,” said the cop with a little bit of snark. “You’re in the … what is that?” asked the cop. “I was about a quarter-mile behind her when it happened, and I pulled off in that apartment complex,” I said as I pointed. I noted that I didn’t see any other cars on the road and that it looked like she drifted, tried to recover and failed before going off the road. ![]() They said most people don’t do that, which was surprising. I was stunned at how appreciative they were for staying around. The police finally arrived and got her out of the car, woozy but in one piece, and then came over to me looking for answers. The 2017 Ferrari California T has all the major functions on the steering wheel. Plus, the 911 operator told us not to move her if she seemed conscious and stable. We started yelling at her to open the door, but she must have unbuckled her seatbelt and fallen to the passenger side, which was on the ground, and couldn’t reach the lock button. Another woman arrived on the scene and we found a young blonde girl, dazed but not bloody, trapped in the non-running Jeep. The 40-mph speed-limit sign was bent in a way that looked like the Jeep drove up it as it careened off the road. With the top down, I whipped the California into an apartment complex and ran over to find the Jeep flipped on its side, and crashed into a tree. I was the only one out there, so I had to stop. ![]() The lights drifted right, then hard left, then hard right before they flew down an embankment off the side of the road. ![]() I was heading home in the Ferrari after my pathetic, southeastern Michigan excuse for a drive loop when I saw Jeep taillights about a quarter-mile ahead. OK, so I might have saved a young woman’s life. I also saved a life while the car was under my command. I haven’t actually heard anyone saying that, at least not since it revamped the California into the California T, but it looks like art and sounds like music, as any creation from that boot-shaped peninsula should. If you feel this test helps you, we’d love it if you could click one of the special links on the final screen to tweet about it or give us a ‘like.Don’t let anyone tell you the Ferrari California isn’t a real Ferrari. Under the test progress matrix on the side, you’ll also find a link to your Challenge Bank, where you can review the questions you’ve answered incorrectly at any time, allowing you to focus your future studying on your weakest areas. We provide the most effective set-up to practice for the test and learn at the same time, including an array of questions that shuffle each time you take the test, instant feedback, explanations when you answer a question incorrectly, and hints if needed. Like all our other permit practice tests, it requires no sign-in, no information from you of any kind, and is available 24/7. Our fourth DMV practice test is here to help you gain even more confidence with questions like the ones you’ll face on the written permit test at the California DMV – 40 multiple-choice questions with information straight from the official California Driver Handbook. The only thing standing between you and cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway, heading out to Joshua Tree, or driving up to ski or snowboard in Big Bear, is getting your learner’s permit and then your driver’s license. ![]()
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