Why the Ferrari F355 sounds so good.
The sound is unmistakable—rich, complex, cultured, yet ferocious. Even among Ferraris, the noise emanating from the F355 is unique. After a recent opportunity to drive a manual F355 Berlinetta, fulfilling a childhood fantasy, the noise burnished itself in my brain. I walked away with two wants, a manual F355 Berlinetta—ideally in blue—and to drill down into its specific sound.Seeing as I can't afford a 355, I'll write about the sound for now. We should start with the fundamentals.
Still, the timbre or tone of a flat-plane V-8 is distinctive to its cross-plane brethren, and that's why the F355's V-8 sounds different from, say, a 1995 Corvette's small-block. But while a lot of Ferrari V-8s–all of which are flat-plane—are tonally similar, the F355's, and by extension, the 360 Modena's mechanically similar 3.6-liter, are still unique. And unique amongBEAU AND ALAN DANIELS, a 5.5-liter flat-plane unit designed specifically for this model.
Listen to this clip of editor-at-large Travis Okulski lapping the new Z06 during our Performance Car of the Year test. You get that smooth flat-plane V-8 sound, and both the dominant frequency—the fourth order—and the eight order are very present. As I explained in, the tone of a sound is made up of more than one pitch.
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