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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: Ferrari Mondial T

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Hobbies, Automotive, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The Mondial T test drive. Write to us with your Car Debates, Car Conclusions, and Topic Tuesdays at [email protected] or everydaydriver.com. Visit griotsgarage.com for the best car care products you can buy, and be sure to use the 10% discount code from our podcast announcements or website! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh dog leg. Okay, here we go. Old cars have a certain smell. Old

0:11.6

Ferraris have a certain smell. Oh this is special. Come on baby. Double

0:22.2

clutch. There we go. Oh my gosh. I'm in the mondial. This is a mondial

0:30.4

tea built from 1989 to 1993 and the Grios family has one. Thank you to Grios

0:37.2

Garage for letting me drive this car. Oh it's so satisfying. Okay let's get a

0:45.8

little bit of air flow. There we go. Let's do that. Oh everything works. Look at

0:52.8

that. This isn't the Ferrari you aspire to because they were underpowered. When

0:59.6

they first came out, mondials were panned because they didn't have enough

1:03.9

power. Despite the fact that they had a V8 transversely mounted in the rear,

1:08.0

I mean this recipe is a rare car. A 2 plus 2 that is also a mid-engine and a

1:14.9

V8. I suppose I want to be attracted to the Ferraris that everyone likes. I

1:20.8

want to be attracted to all the high-dollar Ferraris and I want to really like

1:25.2

them but I almost love the underdogs more and that's what the mondial

1:29.1

represents to me.

1:32.0

This is sweet. It's an old car. It feels strangely modern. It feels still

1:45.9

exotic to my driving sensibility. This is so weird and oddly pleasurable to

1:53.7

drive. The clutch feels good. Come on Accord guy. Come on.

2:05.2

There we go. Deliberate shifts. You know the story of this car and me driving it

2:13.3

is about Grille's garage. It's because they love cars. Yes they produce the

2:19.9

world's best car care in my opinion but they love cars. They even love the

2:24.7

underdogs. I'd never driven a mondial until we took these out. It was Nick and

2:29.3

Richard and Todd and I and we took these cars out and traded out cars and

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