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Poke the throttle and the most delicious whoop imaginable swells up behind your shoulders, the kind that starts a chill rippling upwards from your spine until it brings the tiny hairs on your neck to trembling attention. Somebody please, please tell me why Italian V8s, no matter where they’re mounted, and I mean going clear back to the Otto Vu, sound so different from the good old home-grown versions of my native USA. And skip all the dry, empirical engineering reasons; I know about those already, at least a little. Just give me the lovely romance.
OK, yes, maybe not literally each and every Italian V8; I do remember a particular Maser that sounded so 289 Ford HiPo that my eyes got misty for a sec. But somehow the two varieties wind up provoking the same kind of ultimate anatomical excitement (ahem), while taking completely different routes in getting there.
Which is all by way of saying that the new Arese RH95 by Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera, the latest in its AERO series of aerodynamic designs, is a stirring,
