1995 Ferrari 355

Spider Convertible

8 - Cyl.

Manual

ZFFPR48A3S0103832

Gasoline

Every person in the world has at some point pictured their dream car. For some people this car is a Ferrarri and for others even that is too unrealistic. Well here is your chance to make the dream come true. Get out of that Corvette dealership as quick as you can because here's your chance to own one of the most popular exotic cars ever produced for the SAME PRICE! Thats right! This 1995 Ferrari F355 Spider is in beautiful condition and being offered up at an extremely reasonable price. A major engine out service was completed less than 3,000 miles ago! The car is amazing to drive and runs perfectly. The amount of power you feel under your fingertips is like nothing else. You really don't want to miss your chance to own this car. It is coated in White with a Black convertible top that looks perfect. The interior is finished out in Burgundy leather that is extremely comfortable and looks great in the car. This Red and White color combo is rare when it comes to these awesome street machines. It is all very nicely done with no issues. A Carfax is available on the car that is less than a month fresh. It has also already received all its necessary service requirements. This car is being offered up for much less than most others out there. Some quick research will verify this. For instance the following ads were available as of May 25, 2011. Car Color Odometer Price 1995 Ferrari 355 Spider Black/Black 18,000 $54,995 1995 Ferrari 355 Spider Red/Tan 36,300 $69,000 1995 Ferrari 355 Spider Silver/Red 16,973 $62,900 1995 Ferrari 355 Spider Red/Black 20,000 $65,000 If being a Ferrari isn't enough to make you want to buy it just check out whats in the trunk! An entire custom stereo was installed on the car to provide and awesome sound. The components are mounted in a custom box that is mirrored and has windows to see inside. The following information was taken from a 355 Spider review off motortrend to tell you everything you could ever want to know about these cars. TECH DATA Ferrari F355 Spider GENERAL/POWERTRAIN Body style 2-door, 2-passenger Vehicle configuration Mid-engine, rear drive Engine configuration V-8, DOHC, 5 valves/cylinder Airbags Dual Engine displacement, ci/cc 213/3496 Horsepower, hp @ rpm, SAE net 375 @ 8250 Torque, lb-ft @ rpm, SAE net 268 @ 6000 Transmission 6-speed manual Axle ratio 3.56:1 DIMENSIONS Wheelbase, in./mm 96.5/2451 Length, in./mm 167.3/4249 Base curb weight, lb 2976 Fuel capacity, gal. 21.7 Fuel economy, EPA city/hwy., mpg 10/15 CHASSIS Suspension, f/r Unequal-length control arms/ unequal-length control arms Steering Rack and pinion, power assist Brakes, f/r Vented discs/vented discs, ABS Wheels, f/r, in. 18 x 7.5/18 x 10.0, cast magnesium Tires, f/r 225/40ZR18/265/40ZR18 Pirelli P-Zero PERFORMANCE Acceleration, 0-60, sec 4.9 Quarter mile, sec/mph 13.4/106.8 Braking, 60-0, ft 126 Lateral acceleration, g 0.93 (est.) Slalom, mph 70.8 (est.) PRICE Base price $130,000 Price as tested $137,000 (est.) It's tough enough to build a perfect sports car. The essentials include a frame that's both lightweight and superrigid, a racetrack-ready suspension, brakes more tenacious than those on a mile of Santa Fe freight train, and an engine that combines high-drama power output, environment-friendly exhaust, and the basic reliability of a blacksmith's anvil. Oh yeah, the perfect sports car also needs drop-dead looks, air conditioning that actually works, and a high-rpm wail sensuous enough to have you at 8000 rpm while backing out of the garage. No mean feat, this perfect sports car, but Ferrari has created just such a machine: the F355 Berlinetta. Our July '95 issue's test raved about this Italian mid-engined coupe's blistering performance, fawned over its creature comforts, and openly gushed about its Pininfarina-sculpted beauty. Whether trolling for action along Sunset Boulevard or blowing the snot out of some race car on the track, the F355 Berlinetta never makes excuses and never lets you down. So, herein lies the embodiment of the best Ferraris of all time: The F355 can not only trace its primordial DNA to the blood-engorged Testa Rossa race champion and masterpiece 275 GTB Lusso, but it operates with such a delicate touch that Madame Curie could set fast time down Coldwater Canyon on a moonless night-without the benefit of radium. As tough as it is to create the perfect sports car, it's even more agonizing yet to build that car as a convertible. Hack off a major structural member like the roof, and you can watch your beauty's formerly taut framework turn into a metropolis of creaks and rattles. The resultant loss of torsional rigidity negatively affects ride, handling, and overall feel. It's a cold, hard fact that only a select few convertibles in the world feel and handle as well as their coupe counterparts. So we had our initial doubts about the new F355 Spider. With its curb weight vaunted to be the same as the Berlinetta (2976 pounds), how could Ferrari's engineers have done the proper reinforcing job? Well, even if you recall that the first Ferrari ever built was topless, and that the most recent 348 Spider was a pretty solid package, you won't likely be ready for the bank-vault-like structure of the latest Spider iteration. You can feel some extra weight in the doors as a result of the rework, but all of the other patches go wholly unnoticed-as it should be. Ferrari claims only a two-percent loss of torsional rigidity vis--vis the lift-out-roof-panel F355 GTS, but hasn't commented about the loss as compared with the awesome Berlinetta. It can't be much. We also harbored some initial skepticism over the operation of the convertible top-power operated for the first time in a Ferrari, yet still requiring a bit of driver interaction. With memories of the weird monkey-motion gyrations required to operate the 348 Spider's Nautilus-workout top mechanism, more than one MT editorial eyebrow was raised askew as details of the F355's top operation were described. However, our fears were wholly unfounded. To lower the top, both doors must be closed, the handbrake set, and the ignition key twisted to the "on" position. Release the single header latch and give a firm push up on the top to fold it partially back. Then activate the electric switch located on the rear of the center console and the lid automatically drops, pausing momentarily in mid-droop to move the seats forward about seven inches (the buckets are now electrically adjusted fore and aft, and feature unique backrest sculpting to facilitate the storage of the folded top) before articulating the stack of canvas to rest. The operation takes less than 20 seconds and will only require exiting the car if you own legs long enough to be scrunched by the auto-glide seats. Ferrari is devoid of such add-ons. Once the top is back up it snaps shut with a weathertight seal that keeps extraneous wind noise at bay. While the upsides of this cabriolet's design are obvious (and numerous), the only real negative aspects are the large rear blind spots created by the small, plastic rear window. This is largely a function of top-up styling dictates, as considerable effort was expended to have the shape of the raised softtop mimic the Berlinetta's aluminum body lines-including its semi-flying rear buttresses. Enough about shape and structure, let's go tear the asphalt off a few hundred miles of rural roads. All the delectable mechanical components that make the F355 Berlinetta such a heart-pounder are fully intact here, from the technoparty of its longitudinally mounted 3.5-liter DOHC five-valve-per-cylinder, all-aluminum V-8, to the uniquely Ferrari feel of its transverse six-speed gearbox and gated shift bezel with polished aluminum shift knob. With 375 horsepower (at 8250 rpm) and 268 pound-feet of torque (at 6000 rpm) awaiting the slightest urging of your size-10, you'll want to pump super-unleaded dinosaurs into its Bosch Motronic port fuel-injection system for hours on end. The EPA claims 10/15 city/highway fuel economy figures for the thirsty F355, but we couldn't restrain ourselves long enough to elicit anything even close to that. A morning of testing at Sears Point International Raceway followed by an afternoon of hightailing it to various Northern California wine-country photo locations left us laughing in a giddy hysteria, weak from the repeated adrenaline surges, and proud of the best use of fossil fuel since our '96 Porsche 911 Turbo flog. Because we were testing at a different location than our regular facility, we weren't able to clock skidpad and slalom performance, however we doubt the Spider is anything off the 0.93g lateral acceleration, 70.8-mph slalom speed benchmark set by its fixed-roof sibling. On a dragstrip with less-than-optimal starting-line traction, the Spider smoked its 265/40ZR18 Pirelli P-Zeros wrapped around 18x10.0-inch magnesium five-spoke wheels for 75 feet on its way to a best 0-60-mph time of 4.9 seconds and a quarter-mile run of 13.4 seconds at 106.8 mph. Compared with our F355 Berlinetta test, that's a performance 0.2 second slower from 0-60 mph and 0.6 second/3.4 mph less dynamic in the quarter. Braking tests experienced a similar level of decline due to the surface, lengthening the 60-0-mph stopping distance from the Berlinetta's 118 feet to 126 feet for the Spider. Ferrari quotes the Spider's acceleration and braking specs as identical to the Berlinetta's, including its top speed of 183 mph. Priced slightly higher than the Berlinetta, a $130,000 F355 Spider is an open-air, ultra-high-performance sports-car value. That the F355 can produce its blistering performances and traditional Italian driving feel while also maintaining such a high level of intercity civility and ease of operation is a tribute difficult to overstate. There are only about 300 F355 Spiders coming to the States in '96. It's worth whatever you have to do to get one. Really. This is an amazing car to drive! The second you take it out for the first time we can guarantee you will fall in love. Until you've driven one you truly don't understand the smoothness and power the car provides! Call Cris at (682)429-1010 or email cris@classicalgasmotors.com!