The 288 GTO was built back in 1984 for racing and used a turbo charged V8 that produced 400 HP which is small in todays world, but was huge back in the mid 1980’s. The body was based on the 308 GTB but was heavily modified and while it may have resembled the 308, it was a completely different beast. …

While they did not have a F550 or F575 on hand, when we moved to the back of the showroom we found something much more dramatic… Take a look at what they had roped off. That is an Enzo, F50, F40 and 288 GTO. These four cars represent the top of the Ferrari line for their respective decade. I love …

Along with the new Ferraris on the floor there were also a few used ones. For the V8 series of Ferrari I have always preferred the 430 and of course they had a nice coupe on the floor as well. They are beautiful cars and I prefer the styling over the newer 458. And for the 430, make mine a …

The one big missing item from the showroom floor was the new F12 which is the replacement for the 599. The F12 is just now rolling off of the production line so I did not expect to actually see one in the showroom. While they did not have a F12 in the showroom, they had what I would consider a …

Of course, the ‘high’ volume car for Ferrari is the 458 Italia and not only was there this excellent coupe (GTB in the old Ferrari days) version on the floor, but there were actually several more 458 Spyder’s as well. I am personally a fan of the coupe version of just about every car, so I included the picture of …

The Maser’s are great to look at, but they occupied the smaller side of the show room, lucky for us, the larger side housed the Ferrari show room. As we made our way to that side of building, our eyes were dazzled with an overload of beautiful red objects of driving desire! Sitting front and center and taking center stage …

As one might expect, there were several new and used Maserati Grand Turismos on the floor as well. The black one pictured here was a new one and the Pininfarina designed GT just looks fantastic. While I love the GS, I do admit the GT upstages it a bit in terms of looks, especially when sitting next to each other …

We walked in on the Maserati side of the SLC Ferrari dealer and they had several Maserati Grand Sports (used obviously) on display. The one here was a beautiful blue one that looked new. The GS cars had a small HP bump from the standard 4200 coupe and also a stiffened and more sporty suspension and one of the things …

I did want to mention that I missed photos of some of the better cars such as the Maserati, Silver Viper, Porsche Cayman S, and others. One particular thing I wanted to mention was in the tourist trap known as the Waikiki shopping district, I was doing fine avoiding spending any money…. until I found the blasted Ferrari retail store. …

Well, there was one particular street in Honolulu that was a good street to go down, unfortunately I found it too late. It had that Porsche and Jag dealer as well as some others. It is always fun to hit the dealers to see what fun stuff is going on. Maybe next time.

I was hoping this car was a AMG SL55 but it turned out to just be a run of the mill SL550. Certainly a nice car, but a Mercedes is typically a bit too plush for me, though some of the AMG, especially the black series cars, are impressive. This was a looker, but a cruiser beyond that.

I actually saw this car several times in our same parking garage and finally just decided to snap a photo. It is a convertible BMW M3, E46 vintage. Not a bad car, but appeared to be a daily driver, which shouldn’t have surprised me since it was a convertible.

Well, on another occasion we walked down to the parking garage to pick up our car for the day’s outing when what to our wondering eyes should appear? A nice looking 2008 dodge viper. An all black car in a dimly lit parking garage is difficult to get a good photo of, so I did the best I could with …

Now this was a nice find! A porsche 911 993 vintage Turbo! The last of the aircooled 911’s and perhaps the next collectible 911. We found this one in the parking lot of the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor. It was parked in the restricted access (military) area and I was wondering just exactly what job the owner had!! Because …

… and was a very nice BMW M5. This uber sedan dwarfed the little Elise and with its might V10 it has well over twice the HP. When the group of tourist came out when we were photographing the car, the little red lotus did garner nearly all the attention. The M5 is impressive, but it is a sedan, people …

Now we were starting to spot some more exotic metal. This Lotus Elise was parked down in an alley that lead to a separate hotel. We spotted it from the balcony of the place we were staying at and headed down to take a look. I personally like the Exige better, but the little Elise is a great drivers car …

At the actual place we were staying at in Waikiki we had to park in valet parking, and surprisingly we saw some decent cars in the lot. This was a fairly new Jaguar XF that showed its face a few times and looked very good. Nothing like a svelte Jag to get the camera out of the bag.  

It was not long after we saw the Boxster above that we ran into this 911 Carrera Convertible. It drove by and I actually snapped this photo through the front windshield which explains the fairly low quality. It was a good car, but it lost some of its glamor when we discovered it was a rental car from a shop …

Well, as if you didn’t think would see a Porsche Boxster somewhere on the island, in fact, we saw quite a few Boxsters. This is a 987 (second gen boxster) and looks good in blue, though I’m not sure about that blue top, the tan interior is nice though. We saw this one up at the North Shore. Of course, …

Well, the normal SLK55 might not be ranked among the top “drivers cars” but the AMG version was a good effort from Mercedes to up the fun quotient a bit. The SLK55 AMG has a normally aspirated V8 with 355 HP and 376 ft-lbs of torque and while there was no manual transmission option, it was mated to a nice …