Ferrari Daytona v 599 GTO - The Sublime vs the Ridiculous 

Which of these V12 dream machines would you take home? Let us know 👇

The 365 GTB/4 Daytona would be my choice, it is just timeless. However the 599 GTO is one of my favourite modern Ferraris.

My 599 is hands down the best all round Supercar I have owned - 30,000 + miles now and it can do it all...

The 599GTO is one of my all-time favorite Ferrari's. Along with the 288GTO, F50, 355GTS, 458spyder, and 512TR. I'd definitely buy one now before the value starts to Sky Rocket!!!

Well done lads 👍

I would love to have a drive in the 599 , however I would sell a kidney to own the Daytona ! It’s utterly gorgeous , sounds superb too , what a machine !

Great video, so good to hear the exhausts as they actually sound.

Awesome video!! Best Daytona video on RU-vid! 🙏😍

599 gto is probably my favorite modern Ferrari under a £million, and as much as I like the Daytona, I've always preferred the 275 gtb

What a pair of legend's. Just sublime pieces of automotive history..👍👍😍😍

Epic video again guys.. I have never heard you say you like a Ferrari before Jonty...

Love it! This is a proper review of the 599GTO. Such a shame it got that silly review on Top Gear when it first came out

That wail of 599 GTO! This is probably the closest a V12 gets to the sound of V10 F1 engines. I've heard it ('saw it' would be a massive overstatement as it zipped past me in split second) once, but I still remember the thrill, the chills, the visceral reaction. I would buy it even if it was flawed in every way. For the sound.

This is NOT ABOUT cars,THIS is TRUE love

It is an age and personal experience thing. The 365GTB/4 please, I still have a huge soft spot for them. Excellent video, thank you.

Two dinosaurs of there time together. Yet my two favourite ferraris of all time. Very good lads. Great video

What a great watch.....thank you

Cat and Fiddle, Buxton. I like the standard 599 GTB. Has to be a modern classic and roughly 20% of GTO money. Incredible value.

I'm leaning towards the Daytona. Purely to race another form of transport across Europe...

The Autocar test Ferrari Daytona in 1971 weighed 1765kg, more than the 1600kg quoted by Ferrari, not 1250kg as stated. The two valve engine and good low down torque provides the go! The original fibreglass Ferrari 308 GTB weighed 1300kg. The Daytona was a heavyweight, so heavier as tested in 1971 than the 599GT0 which weighed 1605kg.

Have been waiting for this one to drop lads, thank you🤗 Jonty, I have never seen you so nervous driving that GTO😂 We live near some very nice roads up here dont we, dont know how we have never seen/met at the C&F mate. That's my stomping ground🤘 Love your work guys😎 Now I am of to watch it again😳😳

That Daytona beat Miura when its come to reach the speed limit, cause if you push Miura until its limit it'll fly, but if you push Daytona to the limit it'll be faster and faster

Brilliant video

One time I was having my 360 spider serviced, there was a Daytona sitting nearby. I asked my Ferrari mechanic what it was like to drive that one? He sounded very unimpressed and said it felt like you were driving a big buggy. As much as I love the design of older Ferrari’s, I’ll take the 599.

That shot at the 00:01:00 mark is gorgeous. Love the colour

Quality Video -- nice one¬

Oh ny gosh. The engine note. This is a very nice colour combo 599. Alloys standard but stance so much better than a red GTO. Looks like it has been alloys and skirts. Am I missing something. What are the holes around the headlight on the bumper. Puzzling me. Thanks

Another very engaging video Jonts.....now I see where the ghostly Daytona came from in the last video,...😎👏.....truly gorgeous, both equally stunning

Point well made about the Daytona's stability at high speed. The heavy steering - which is a real pain at parking speeds - comes into its own from about 50 mph upwards. The other joy is that the car is so long-legged. Stick it in third and go from 30 to 100+ in no time at all.

What a dream, driving these two amazing Ferraris. I would go for the Daytona, I just love it.

The 365 GTB is a beautiful car with monster performance BUT, it was not the fastest production car of its time. That honor went to the 1969 Corvette Stingray L88 427. The factory claimed 430bhp, individual dyno's but at 550 bhp 0-100km at 4.5 sec 13.6 sec 1/4 mile and a top speed of 291 km( 181 mph). The Daytona ran 0-100km in 5.5 sec 1/4mile in 13.6 and a top speed of 280km( 174 mph).

I’ve been behind you many times Jonty Bonty and I’ve never seen you drive fast like that!! As Will Smith said in Bad Boys - “from now on, that’s how you drive”

I beg to differ slightly REGARDING THAT BLUE DAYTONA (I DROVE ONE OFF THE SHOWROOM FLOOR ONCE AND SCREAMED DOWN A BEVERLY HILLS STREET..IT WAS SO COOL..I WAS 19..I'M A *VERY GOOD DRIVER)... I think the draw back, for me at least, is the pop up headlights. I had a pretty,new firebird... and it had those type lights ... i barely bumped into a woman's car in front of me..on the clogged, crawling L.A. Freeway.. the Santa Monica Freeway..and we got out and looked...nothing on her bumper. BUT ONE OF MY LIGHTS *WOULDN'T POP BACK DOWN.* YAH. SO... I HAD TO GO THRU ALL THIS MUCK TO FIX IT. THERE WAS NO SCRATCH OR DENT ON EITHER OF OUR CARS. WE WERE GOING SO SLOW.... I BARELY TAPPED HER. ANYHOW...I WILL NEVER GET ANOTHER CAR WITH POP UP- HIDDEN LIGHTS. WHATA MESS. AND PLASTIC BUMPERS ARE BULLSHT. THEY ONLY DID THAT TO HAVE A HUGE AFTER MARKET TO HAVE TO REPLACE THE ENTIRE BUMPER WHEREAS A STEEL BUMPER NEVER MAKE A DENT. SO.... I HATED THAT CHANGEOVER. IT STILL SUCKS. *BUT I DID ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO DRIVE THE DAYTONA.. REALLY GREAT WHEELS!!!* NOW...I *HAVE TO HAVE* A *GTC4 V12 LUSSO*

I love this old Daytona 365 the most iconic car back in day and the engine is a V12 and the price is insane better expensive than some brand new Ferrari! What a car

Very nice video. I need that 599GTO my right foot requires it. Daytona never did it for me, always thought it was missing something visually. The 599 looks better than the Superfast to me, but I think the F12 looks better than both recent hyper GT's.

Some great roads around the Cat and Fiddle.

Anyone else skipped the 599, just to see the fabulous Daytona ?

You’d need both. Simple You can’t compare cars from different eras Both excel in their own way The Daytona couldn’t compare to the 599 but a step in the Daytona would have sensations and feel the 599 couldn’t offer Love them both

Thats a really hard one to choose between the 599 GTO and a Daytona

Hi all, does anyone know which road it is with the new tarmac and silver crash barrier. Need to plan my next road trip and that looks amazing. I know it’s around the cat and fiddle but would love some details.

Dream team right there omg ❤

I would take the Daytona! But I must admit I would (like some other owners) put in the power steering from the 400 series Ferraris.

Front Engined V12 Ferrari ♥️

Great title!

Having grown up in the 70’s, I loved the Daytona but, the boxer was always my favorite. Mid mounted flat twelve and bulging in arches was much more of an event than the pretty Daytona. As for modern Ferraris, the Enzo does the same as the boxer in appearance whereas the 599 at a glance could be a Toyota. The grey paint doesn’t help.

A classic Ferrari in blue - bliss

Daytona engines obviously got tuned in different ways/outputs by different owners/teams, but they were good for 184 down the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans.

Wow 🤩

Nice content guys. Think I would buy an F12 for £160k and add an aftermarket exhaust.

Like the other video (330 2+2 and gtc4lusso) , this video is totally mesmerising. I own the Gtc4Lusso, but my dream is to get the 330....a real masterpiece.....And perhaps the Daytona for some crazy rides on my beloved Italian alps....Well, I should sell my Gtc4 Lusso.....and probably my house to get the funds for the 2 beauties......ok.....deal!!!!!!

Daytona is more like 1500kg than the 1250kg dry Ferrari quoted.

Redline starts at 8500 rpm. In a 6 L V 12. I bet not many owners have been anywhere near that. It will be in warp factor seven

Thanks for the truth about Miura! Daytona along 275 and all 250 series including original GTO, 288 GTO and mighty F40 are my favorite Ferrari, but 599 and subsequent ones to this GTO are testament of elegant, sculpted power coming from Maranello, land of engines God (the one that hold an inverted piston full of Lambrusco, a discutibile wine loved in that area of Italy)!!! Modern Ferrari add to aesthetic aerodynamic function and minimize pollution to nothing plus introduce electronic to let you drive 3 times more power up to "thousand" horsepower, let me mention 458 between the others, always in Ferrari's personal way : as many collectors use to say Porsche and other automakers could be fast, fastest, but no one else car has a soul to connect to as a Ferrari have ! Hope they'll keep this attitude in the forthcoming production with a special eye on Purosangue!!! Freedom everyone!!! Bye

Wow, I thought the Daytona would weigh more than 1200kgs. The reports on the driving experience were that it felt heavy and cumbersone.

Is that the same Daytona which Richard Hammond drove once in TopGear?

Daytona, but only the competizione one in dark green with a/c and beige leather

Daytona all day every day. It is gorgeous and screams old school class, but in Spider form for me

Given the nature of your retrospective look, it's absolutely amazing that the run-of-the-mill GTC4 Lusso runs so closely to the 599 GTO, even more so compared to the bread-and-butter 599 Fiorano. Given that the universe of Lusso builds is now closed, and with its pricing fallen like leaves in Fall, the Lusso V12 remains, in my obviously biased opinion, the best of the modern Ferrari.

That magnificent Daytona , every day !

The 599 was the most disappointing GTO for me. It lacked something I cant quite work out, it lacked some sort of magic or mystique for me. It just wasnt exotic looking for me. Slowly its starting to appeal to me but there is still a long way to go. Maybe in another 10 years I will grow to appreciate it

I'd take that Daytona every time. I prefer older cars in general, and you could have a fun with the Daytona at much lower speeds than the 599.

Righhand drive .. cool 😎

its not a gto. sorry. tdf is beautiful. ideally i would have both! Great video keep them coming.

The GTO it's crazy fun

*ck yes.

8:21 I know we are talking about a different era, and all the cars are much smaller than newer cars out today. But 1250 kg and calling it overweight by modern standards is absolutely outrageous. 1250 kg is nothing compared to even like a 458. Which will be much more. It’s absolutely zero compared to modern car standard. A Ford Fiesta would weigh more than that. Edit. I’ve just done some checking. 458 comes in curb weight at about 1500 kg. On the 599 GTO comes in at 1600 kg. 1250 is featherweight

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The story I have heard about why the factory did not use the name "Daytona" was a young American journalist was leaked the news Enzo planned on naming it that and wrote about it before the release date sending Enzo into a fit and therefore it was not named the Daytona officialy. Although that could be a fable sounds about right to me though.

The Daytona! The GTO would be too fast for me; the 365 would be a hoot!

I'd have the Daytona, the 599gto is amazing but the std 599 is enough and currently an unexplained bargain.🤪

275 GTB/4 ; 550 Maranelo ; F12 TDF

So the GTO is a better modern Ferrari than the TdF?

The 599 GTO always my favourite. The F12 might be a better car overall, but the GTO...!

The GTO. I've driven both and the Daytona, while epic, is the world's fastest truck in comparison. IMHO etc...

I'll take the daytona or a citroen an sm sorted and corrected

Why don't they remake daytona now a days!🤔

The C4 was the most expensize.

Born in the 60s my vote goes for the Daytona...

video games sounds evolved so much in the past years, that now a GTO sounds almost "fake" to my ears LOL

The Daytona anyday... Pure Ferrari V12

Thats the colour for the GTO it hides its age.

3:13

Daytona is so much beautiful

The GTO because it's out there

Sophie's choice

Sorry any cripple clutch car is only 3/4 a drivers car. Reality bites but true

ah if only they'd made a gated shifter 599 gto. And yeah, ferraris are not getting prettier these days. The roma isn't downright ugly, but it doesn't work as well as the 599, which in turn didn't work as well as the 550, which...456, well, you get the idea

GTO please

THE 599 GTO OFF COURSE)

Sublime

No V12 sings quite like a Ferrari V12.

I hate paddle shifting..

THE FERRARI F599 GTO IS WORTY IS NAME F599 GTO FXX EVO EDO F599 GTO FX EDO

You should’ve got an 812 SuperFast instead of the 599 GTO

HOPE FERRARI BUILT A NEW FERRARI DAYTONA SPECIAL

The 599 would be like dancing the night away with the hottest girl in the room. The Daytona would be like dancing the night away with the love of your life.

They are both hard to get parts for. The Daytona is a little farm implement under the skin.In typical Italian Fashion , what you see is beautiful , what you don't see. A little crude. The Daytona is getting old I mean the Aluminum of that era decays from the inside out ask any Alfa owner with a porous cylinder head. All Factors , factored in I'd take the modern Ferrari. The Daytona was always a Dream Ferrari. It is better that way 50 years later.

Rover SD1?

Silly question. one u can use the other is a museum piece. If u had drive the daytona every day u would soon get fed up! unreliable, no power steering, service every 3000 miles. Its ok for a drive out but not for every day use.

Daytona.