Very enjoyable drive home Thursday night coming out of London, it was dark and not too much traffic around, wooll, past me goes a lovely grey f430, had a deposit on one of those, first chance to actually see one moving close up. We switch a few lanes and draw closer behind, the sound is fantastic. The road now opens up into motorway and we sit behind at approx 70/80 mph, after a mile he gets the message, rrrrrrrroooaarrr, take off, M button deployed and away we go, hud not switched on so full concentraion on the road. The first thing we notice is how loud the f430 is, ok the M5 sounds fabulous but this Ferrari is something else. Its quad pipes light up, not on overrun but as he accelerates, never seen anything like that before, they don't flame but glow really brightly. Had to slow it down a few times and then re-apply the throttle so I got to see how the M5 compares in acceleration. The 430 was on a 55 plate so very new, but I am pretty sure that he was not running it in. So who thinks we got trashed ?