What Portia achieves with under those conditions are always amazing.

You can get into a modern Portia in minus 10.

And it was one of the most disappointing cars on track,

mainly because less than one lap round, I thought it literally has no brakes left.

And it was just being driven by the bloke that had stolen it.

He just put, he put different number brakes on it and was daily on it.

And his reason for daily it was he couldn't afford one but he really wanted one still.

Hello and welcome to the Collecting Addix Podcast episode number 42 the answer to life

the universe and of course everything that's what we're here.

We're here to answer everything universe related about the subject of cars,

which is why we're the ultimate car bores.

And I can sit here with a straight face and say to you

that five grown men are now going to discuss ceramic breaks because that's at the top of the agenda.

ceramic breaks, yes or no. I'm going to go straight to Edward Lovett whose family have benefited from the sale of ceramic breaks.

They have. There was a period. So the era that I want to talk about is the era of the Ferrari F-430, where once upon a time,

the Ferrari F-430 was about 105,000 five thousand pounds new I think and not well not but with the

earlier ones there might have been a little bit more not much more might have been

a hundred and seven or something like that.

And the ceramic break option was 10,000 pounds plus the VAT,

vodka and tonic, and they were bloody hard to sell a set of ceramic brakes.

This was also the era that Ferrari decided to tell the dealers that they had to sell an average amount of options per Ferrari they sold,

which became very difficult, but a lot easier if you manage to convince your customers to take the 10,000

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