Yahoo Autos Here's Why You Shouldn't Hate This Stanced Ferrari 348
Stancing a Ferrari at first glance seems like an act of total and utter sacrilege. Ferraris are finely engineered, beautifully designed sports cars–they shouldn't be turned into ground-scraping show cars, right? Well, most Ferraris are world-class sports cars, but the 348 most decidedly isn't, so that's why we genuinely dig this stanced one.
Yes, the 348 had Pininfarina design and a mid-mounted V8, but this is not a great Ferrari. This isn't even a good Ferrari. This is a bad Ferrari. People talk about Enzo Ferrari in hushed tones in regards to amazing road cars like the F40, but in reality, he was almost completely indifferent to most of the street cars that bared his name. He cared about racing. The 348 was a product of this indifference.
In a 1990 Car and Driver comparison test, a 348TS was described as having "inexcusable handling," and as "a terrible car to drive fast." It lost to the Corvette ZR-1, Porsche 911 Carrera 4, and most damningly, the Acura NSX. Even former Ferrari president Luca di Montezelmolo–who is credited with shepherding the brilliant F355–is quoted as saying the 348 wasn't a true Ferrari.
Since the 348 isn't Ferrari's proudest moment, it's a perfect candidate for an over the top stancing treatment, which is what Japanese tuning shop FERS.cru did. The shop posted a photo album detailing the build to its Facebook giving us insight into what went into creating this monster. The rear fenders were stretched to accommodate super wide tires, and it appears as though it sits on airbags to get it super low to the ground.
What FERS.cru has done here is taken a bad car, and made it infinitely more interesting by making it ostensibly worse. You wouldn't do this sort of thing to a 355, but a 348? Why not?
