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Nothing says chav quite like rolling up to your wedding in a 20 foot long Ferrari 360 Modena Limo. Though not quite as impressive as the Czech-built Skoda limo the other day, this one will probably hold more Guinness World Records. The 360 limo was the brainchild of owner and builder Dan Cawley, in partnership with former Mclaren associate Chris Wright. They constructed the car by slicing the beast in half and then painstakingly reconstructing the carbon-fiber chassis, along with adding carbon -iber supports. Even though the car is over nine feet longer than stock, it only weights in at an additional 350 lbs.
With those figures in mind, the owners are planning to make a run at the record for the longest Ferrari and the fastest limo in April. Not bad considering we only found out about the Ferrari Limo only about a year ago. If you live in England, you and seven of your closest friends can rent it out for the princely sum of 700 quid an hour. Have fun doing really, really big donuts. [via The Daily Mail]
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That looks like the most uncomfortable limo ever.
The seating arrangement certainly isn't very post-wedding friendly.
What a terrible terrible waste of a perfectly good Ferrari.
He is going to owe her every day for the rest of his life. I hope the ride was worth your balls, buddy.
The seating setup look like it's from an amusement park ride.
And it probably all started with someone thinking "...hey, wouldn't it be cool if..." But then, that could describe 90% of what is posted on here.
$1,300 my ass.
There better be gold-plated midgets involved.
@Dr.Danger: Hookers and Coke come included in the price (I hope).
wasn't this on here once before?
finally we see something uglier and more useless than a hummer limo.
Not only is it a waste of time and effort, it's a waste of perfectly good carbon fiber too. And I didn't even think that the 360 had a carbon fiber chassis to begin with.
Too late to chose this for rolling up to the oscars?
@harumph: I hate this car, but there is NOTHING uglier and more useless than a hummer limo.
Probably a lot more fun to drive then a stretch town car. I wouldn't complain too much if I was the chauffer and it was a choice between this and a super stretch excursion.
@BadAxe: i may have to backpedal and agree with you there.
@KVHnik: otherwise known as the unfortunate downside of marijuana.
so if that thing only weighs 350 pounds more than stock, then IT RULES. Yes, it looks like a rollercoaster inside, but can you imagine how predictable the drifts would be? have you ever seen that video when a dude steals a grehound and gets all crossed up in it? This thing could go so sideways, so easily, with 5 angry mother-in-laws inside. GOD, ROCKING. too bad about the doors. they look like the doors to one of those Motorsports Virtual Reality things at fairs.
I'm pretty sure the 360 is not carbon fiber but aluminum.
How very sad.
So this is the next phase of Ferrari merchandise: Cheese.
Maybe only 350 pounds heavier, but what about chassis flexion? To sit in the back seat while it slides would be fun.
But it needs to ditch the cinema seating if it wants to be a true party-mobile.
wife : you rented WHAT for our wedding ?
man : honey, it's a Ferrari
wife : you rented WHAT for MY wedding ?
man : pause
wife : couch, tonight boy.
What a cheese ball idea. or is that cheeseball (compound word). Throughout life we all get cheeseball ideas but we take the time to let it pan out so that we realize if the idea is real gold or just a hardened lump of dirt. This guy should have sat back sipped back a little yack so that his little gem of an idea could have panned out for its true worth which in the end ended up being just a hardened ball of cheese.
If you redo the seats you can have a Party Limo....If you can find some hunchback strippers and a 2 foot pole.
Those gullwings are preposterous,
This isn't a limo, it's a rollercoaster that got off the tracks.
I don't understand why bad things keep happening to good cars...
Living in Vegas, I've seen pretty much every type and configuration of absurd-ass limosine...this one trumps them all.
I thought, having been in Austin, TX, last week, I'd seen the worst limo concept...an F-350 which had at least 12 feet added, but they kept the cargo bed.
It's been beaten.
It makes the limos they buildt on Top Gear last night look pretty good...
The sad thing is that a 4-seater gullwing Ferrari would probably get into the JFG; a modern take on the Lamborghini Marzal.
But no. It had to have eight seats, and so ends up looking like it fell off a wanky fairground ride. Arse.
One word. ICK!!!!
Stretching a mid-engined car has to be a lot easier that stretching a front engine, rear-drive car. Some longer cables for the throttle and shift linkage, and lengthen the wiring harness, voila!. No need for a longer driveshaft.
I guess stretching a front driver would be easier still. Next up: Smart ForTwelve.
What the $%#@, please somebody stop feeding the animals with petro.
I need another t-shirt now, Save the 360s!
I just teared up a bit and had to look away. I hate the creator of this. I want him dead.
Everybody sing... Here comes the bride, I think she wants to hide.
I'd love to climb in and fire up a nice, fat cigar to stink the thing up!
Come to think of it, it already stinks!
No no no ... I just figured it out!
This is THE ULTIMATE Prom ride!
Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain seated until the coaster has come to a complete stop.
I want to see the Nurburgring times.
I call bullsh** on the weight figures.
I think even looking at this abomination is damaging to the soul.
yes but wheres the wetbar?
and the lightshow in the ceiling??
this is sad but entertaining at the same time
kind of like when you see your old girlfriend poledancing
at some club and nobodys throwin her fives just ones
the hate is these comments is overwhelming. its hilarious how people just parrot the OP. if the OP had been more favorable, all these comments would be about how great the design is.
I'll say it. I love it. I love every ridiculous part about it. This is the dumbest most batshit crazy thing I could possibly think of doing with a Ferrari, nad it is AWESOME. Glickenhaus, eat your heart out.
Plus 430's are over produced anyway, so while it is still a Ferrari, the world won't miss it like the Enzo Eddie Griffin wrecked.
I would love to see Stig and the Top Gear staff spend a week with this beast.
I don't know...I like this a *lot* more than most of the other limos out there. We see a lot of the Hummer limo / F-Series limo out here, and it's ridiculous.
@ogz: Or, crazy thought, people don't like it because it's terrible?
@ogz: sorry, i am sure it sucks no matter how you present it.
i am generally anti-limo though.
@ogz: So true, we all have a hive mentality centered around the opinions of the leaders of the Church of the Jalopy, Ray Wert and his disciples.
The Leader is good, the Leader is great, we surrender our will as of this date!
Then again, maybe elwood was right - the car is that much of an abomination.
@yellofury: Wow, small world - I dated Brandine too!
@ogz: I dunno... I thought it sucked before I read the post....
"in partnership with former Mclaren associate Chris Wright" Has this guy have some kind of booze or drug problem? That would be the only way I could explain putting some real talent to work on that thing.
If I'm going to rent a ferrari, I'm damn sure going to be doing the driving.
I'm sure this rolling vomit chicane will be well-used by footballers.
Better than this one?
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This is pretty bad. This reminds me of this white 80s corvette limo that lives at this detailing shop near my parents house. It screams of cocaine and shoulder pads gone terribly wrong. This car will look like th