A Ferrari F40 And A 360 Degree Camera Will Remind You Why You Love Cars In The First Place

It’s easy to have a love/hate relationship with social media. After all, some of the stuff on there is infuriating enough to make you want to throw your phone into a lake. However, every so often, the algorithm serves up some absolute gold, and this is one of those times. In fact, it might just remind you why you love cars in the first place. It’s a video called “F40 late night grocery run,” uploaded by a YouTube channel called redline.archives, and the premise is simple. As the video description states:

With the recent release of the F80, I thought it would be a suitable occasion to test out the insta360 cam on the F40.

Ah yes, Insta360, the brand that brought 360-degree cameras to the masses. A handful of car owners have been picking up these cameras and using them for, uh, stuff. Primarily on toll roads. We don’t condone street racing, but we can appreciate the more innocent, less malicious concept of testing a camera out by sticking it to the back of a Ferrari F40 and going for a little drive.

The results are simultaneously low-effort yet some of the best automotive video I’ve seen in years. There’s an honesty and earnestness about it that’ll whisk you back to earlier days of online video, when building a brand was less important than documenting something cool. It’s just so perfectly imperfect.

Camera swaying with every bump? Let it sway so the viewers understand the road surface. Exhaust too loud for the mic? Let it clip. Blowing out the microphone just gives an impression of how visceral the sound is, because even though other videos do a better job of capturing tone, it’s hard to emphasize how loud a car like this can be. With the right format, you don’t need context, you don’t need state-of-the-art editing, you just need a feeling. The intensity of a dream just before you wake up.

Oh, and speaking of dreams, redline.archives followed up this thrilling F40 video with one titled “512TR morning commute.” What looks like Brussels, tunnels, piercing the inky twilight with the Testarossa’s evolution, a dark wedge as a morning alarm clock. A compelling argument for getting up before the traffic. Sure, the camera’s steadier here, but it’s still moving. The end result is still moving too. I can’t embed it here, but hopefully a screenshot and a link will do.

If we’re lucky enough, we can all dream for a moment more as a Modenese soundtrack fills our headphones. With a new hypercar seemingly born every minute, it’s easy to grow jaded regarding exotic cars. Videos like the ones from redline.archives reminds us of why we loved these cars when we were kids. Maybe the posters were right.

(Photo credits: redline.archives/YouTube)

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