Some clown
takes a Ferrari past several Paris landmarks in the gray light of dawn,
dodging cops and sleepy commuters. The soundtrack is full of the
wonderful growl of a long-legged V-8, and you can see/hear/almost_feel
everything, including one nifty save of throttle-induced oversteer.
That clown would be Claude Lelouch, the director/producer/driver. The
car is his very own 275GTB. And that would make it a V-12, not V-8.
It's a great video. It has inspired hours of debate as to whether the
audio was recorded when the film was made; after the sixth or seventh
viewing you realize that the sound indicates that he's changed up to
fifth, pushing toward redline, and he's really not moving all that fast
compared to the Renault Dauphines and Citroen 2CVs that he's passing.
Despite the hype, he can't possibly be going flat out in the Champs
Elysees scene, since flat out in a 275 should be about 150mph.
The audio *is* clearly of a twin-cam Ferrari V-12 at speed, though, and
quite wonderful.
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