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This episode should be in the national archives. Total classic.

This is pure, concentrated retro bliss.

well he wasnt lying i still have my childhood f40 poster up in my garage over 25 years later

This is the caliber of automotive journalism that many others have attempted to reach, and failed to accomplish!

I remember watching this episode as a little boy! I was still in elementary school (I think the 4th grade) and fell in love with cars that day!

More people should be watching these retro reviews. Nothing beats it to this day.

The idea that MotorWeek was still sitting on something this great in their archives is amazing to me!

This is a certified hell YEAH moment

my new favorite car video on youtube, takes me back to being a little kid and seeing this show!

Carbon fiber In 1988.... Rare

Hats off to the mate chucking that 40 sideways through the bends like what we all want to see. Even the bikers wanted to see it, posthumously perhaps.

Not surprised that I didn't see Morris Frye's 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California. That SOB never takes it anywhere.

80s was great era for Ferrari! F40, Testarossa, GTS... ❤

14:10 Very aggressive driving and very lucky bicyclists!

I will forever have the MotorWeek address seared into my memory after watching it every weekend with my dad growing up. Always loved the way the announcer said it. “MotorWeek, Owings Mills Maryland, 21117.”

thumbs up before even starting the video

Having seen Testarossa’s several times including being behind one in traffic you notice how very wide the car is compared to how tall it is.

OMG...Motorweek, you saved this video for WAAAAY too long!!!

Twice in this video I heard them state wrong statistics on a couple of cars. The first one I noticed was that they said the F40 was powered by a 3.0 liter twin turbo V8 when it actually has a 2.9 liter or 2936 cc’s. The second was when Lisa Barrow was talking about the upcoming Ferrari 348 which she said was going to have a 4.0 liter V8 which is wrong. It actually has a 3.4 liter V8 which is why it’s called the 348. Ferrari named a lot of their cars by using the engine size for the first two numbers and the cylinder count for the last number, 3.4 liters and 8 cylinders = 348. The car replaced by the 348 was named the same way 3.2 liter 8 cylinder gave you the 328. The 512 BBi was the same 5 liter 12 cylinders to give you the 512 BBi. Not all Ferrari’s were named using this formula but many were. Some used the displacement of a single cylinder like the 365 GTB/4 Daytona which had a cylinder displacement of 365 cc’s and 4 camshafts to get the 365 GTB/4. The last Ferrari to get it’s name based on it’s engine size and cylinder count was the Ferrari 458 Italia which has a 4.5 liter 8 cylinder engine. The Ferrari 488 that replaced the 458 has a smaller 3.9 liter twin turbo V8 with a single cylinder displacement of 488 cc’s which is how it got it’s name. Ferrari has traditionally used that formula for naming it’s 12 cylinder cars and used the engine size and cylinder count for it’s V8 and V6 cars like the Dino 246.

One of my favorite episodes. Watched it on TV when I was a child.

Wow, all hands on deck for this episode! 24:39 Thank goodness they came to their senses about the 1990 348, although, Doc Brown would have been proud, I think.

I Love Motor Week I watched this one 31 years ago memories

Sat in a testarossa with straight pipes and rev up the engine a few times. It was something else.

I love how the Italian guys on the bikes didn’t even flinch just told off the guy driving in Italian and kept on going same with whoever was driving that F 40 never Lifted just stayed in it😂😂😂

This would’ve been great to be released on Christmas Eve but thank you this is great!

Probably one of my favorite episodes, I remember watching this when I was a kid.

Forgot to mention that the first F40 units produced "first 20 if I'm not mistaken" were lighter, had over 650hps, the 0-100km / h was made in the 3.1s and top speed was over 370km / h or 230mp / h, this same setting was improved and used on the F40 LM a few years later!

This episode is more than I can afford.

Back in the day my dream cars were the Porsche 935 and the Ferrari 512BB.

Beautiful...Love that this is a full episode and takes me back to my childhood watching PBS on a Saturday

What a beautiful years ...

“And gearboxes are very expensive to fix... repairs could cost up to 5 thousand dollars.” The 80s were great.

Back when super cars required skill to drive

14:12 only could happen in the 80s

Hard to believe that Ferrari was about 40 years old when this video was made. Now this video is almost 40 years old.

That intro was hot

14:24 $260,000 for that F40 in 1988 is almost $600,000 in today's money. Compare that to the 812 Superfast, which is a street-friendly comfortable car with 789 hp and 0-60 in 2.9 sec, with a starting price of $339,025 in 2018. Talk about progress.

Isn’t this timely again as I’ll watch Ford v Ferrari this weekend! 🏎

Enzo went out with a bang.

Awesome episode. Thank you for posting!

14:12, whoops!

I remember viewing this episode on the Public Television channel in Fresno Ca. Great memories I was at Fresno State. My first year in radio & television. Then off to Warner Bros.in Hollywood!

That was a fun trip down memory lane. The F40 is still my all-time favorite Ferrari model.

Amazing episode!

The Mechanic in the video looks like Master Ken, and they definitely told him not to touch the car.

I remember watching this on PBS WNET in New York.

Totally awesome to see this archival footage

mama mia! il mio cuore! oh man, how i love ferraris!! 😍😍 and i really loved knowing this channel as well!

Best F40 video on YT.

It's always nice to watch a MW retro review, especially when the topic is Ferrari.

Thanks for posting.

I remember watching this as a teen. I was excited

Rest In Paradise Enzo

Bravo, Enzo! Brava, Ferrari!

17:55 Start in the low $20’s. I wish that were today!!!

How did I miss this episode back then?

The F40 is hands down the best Ferrari ever made. It’s raw, powerful and style is perfect for the era. Love it

I remember seeing this when I was 15 or 16. Just months after Enzo's pasing.

Some wise man once said - hand build mean that the door will fall off.

Amazing the lengths they went to beat a 6 cylinder Porsche.

awesome!!!

Plastic Sticky Bits....Italian craftsmanship at its best!

Pat if people did this on their junk cars, cars that old relatives parked for years, there would be no need to have junkyards because every car would start, run and drive !

Wooooowwww!!!! 🤩🤩🤤🤤🤤♥️♥️♥️♥️

R.i.p. Enzo Ferrari and Pat Goss.

10:06 and he wasn’t kidding lmao

Imagine being an automotive journalist, and someone saying "you can take her up through some mountain roads" then saying "which car" and them saying "yeah the F40", if only it where easy to become an automotive journalist................. I guess I could try and buy a replica one someday, with the Lexus V8, but there's no way I think I would even come close, to the amount needed for a real F40 lol

Best "Working Vacation" ever, John. What was it like to drive an F40 at Maranello , and how hard was it to get used to wringing out a Plymouth Acclaim or Ford Festiva around the Baltimore 'burbs again?

omg ,when the driver almost kills that cyclist at 14:13. wow, they played these tests drives fast and loose in the 80s.

Ferrari scorned those who bought the road cars and he thought they were suckers. The road cars were only developed to keep the racing program alive.

The guy is scared because a 275 GTB "supposedly" is worth 400 grand,if he manages to get a time machine and travels to 2019 he'll have a heart attack hahahahaha

LMAO the 14:10 powerslide! We won't see anything like that on our screens these days; unplanned, unauthorized, unquestionably illegal, clearly demonstrative of accountability, and in real life, no less!

The two greatest words in the English dictionary. "my Ferrari"

Maranello Assembly is like Italy's equivalent to the post-war but pre-Mustang River Rouge: Handmade and fully integrated

The Ferrari F-40 in my opinion is the best Ferrari ever!

35 years later, you can buy a Jeep suv with a 3 liter inline 6 twin turbo with 22 more hp. 21:02 You are going to tell me to use something the maker of the car say not to. If Ferrari wanted oil in the upper cylinders. They would not have install valve seals to keep the oil out.

F40 is one badass car

I had this on video tape

I first saw this when I was 13.

I currently own 15 Ferraris of course their all 1/18th Scale but I can actually say I own Ferraris.

we have tire cushions in the future

Ferrari is just so much MAMA MIA!

There's nothing quite like a cold glass of water!

Hey I know it’s 1988 there, but I own a 2008 convertible Toyota and I’m going store it in my garage during the winter, should I take the same precautions as if it were a Ferrari? 😂😂

17:16 kind of amusing that the expert got the engine oil drain and transmission oil sump backwards.

That moment a dude on a bike almost had some serious stock in Ferrari.

God bless Ferrari 🙏

Lol when your perfect and pure process is so high quality you need to hcorrect imperfections, with a hammer...

The guy on the bike shouted...........................

14:28 $260,000 for 1 F40? You could buy 8 '89 Mercedes Benz 300SE Sedans for that price at the time!

Next The 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Christmas comes early!

Ohhhh... F40...

I think Ferrari is a much better looking car than most Lamborghini

That 348 they showed looks nothing like the actual one that went on sales.

7:17 Salut Gilles !

cryogenically fitting valve seats @ 4:28 mark

11:17 ROUND FLAP VENTS WERE AROUND IN THE 80s....

Were Ferrari’s more attainable and affordable back then? It’s almost like cheap used Ferrari’s all but disappeared after the 90’s JDM Acura NSX, Toyota Supra, and Nissan Skyline GT-R came around.