I prefer the real look to the super-photoshoped one. Come one ...if you take 2 diferent pictures with a 430 for example, in one it will be uglier. I didnt read in my life so many stupid things about a car. Begining with "the 360 and 430 were ugly" to..."i didnt like this car, the 430 look better" all from people that cannot see that a millechilli concept is 100% a smaller enzo......... Every time a new ferrari appears we heard its ugly.Come on!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly my thoughts. LOVED the look in the first PS'd pics. The Original PS'd release pics looked much different than the 430, the car looked dramatic in the pics, this pic of the actual car looks much more like the 430 in terms of it's over-all shape. In terms of it's height imho it's because of the un-even surface it's on, happens w/ my 430 all the time, where one side could look higher.
The girl on the left is Katherine Heigl, I don't know who the one on the right is. Whoever it she is smokin'
Have any of you even bothered to consider that this car is not the final one? That it's just a test mule? The car would be in a different kind of camo if it was the final product, this has the camo which only hides certain parts of the vehicle. And besides that, this also has a lot of differences compared to the released pics. Once again, I doubt this is the final version of the car.
Katherine Heigl. That's the point, fellas. Same girl, different "effects." No need to get knickers in a twist about ride height. The spyshot shows the car on the shoulder of a road. Can't say I recall Italian shoulders being any more flat than ours so it could be that it's sitting lower on the unseen side. Or... It rides a bit higher than the studio photos. Publicity and advertising "sandbag" virtually every car ever shot for promotion, making them lower than spec. It's a trick of the trade. In this case, as a street car, it's got to have a bit of clearance and people who actually drive them will appreciate that. Or have them lowered a touch. No big deal.
I think it's clear that the official photoshopped pictures show a wider track both front and rear (as well as a lower ride height). This does a lot for the overall look of a car (can make or break it).
This is the final car. From what I can gather the pic was taken after the release of the official shots and explains why it has minimal camo. It could even be that Ferrari wanted it "leaked" and shown on the net to keep people talking about the car. It's odd, is it not, that the photographer was able to get such a picture in a remote parking spot off a highway with no test driver in shot Every manufacturer uses this type of camo after initial press shots have been released but the car has not officially been launched whilst their test drivers carry out the final shakedown testing. BMW, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Porsche to name but four have all done this recently. It provides good internet coverage for new models. Will someone who is good with photoshop please remove the white camo tape and turn the whole car black so that everyone can see it's the final version of the 458.
+1000! Car in the release photo is lowered with possibly larger wheels that may not even come on the car... Try driving the car they showed on Los Angeles roads, won't have much of the front bumper or undercarriage left after a few months...
So you're just guessing this is the final version because the picture was taken after the official shots were released? ...
I personally think its crap. What happened when Ferrari's were low slung, and looked exotic. This with a Honda badge, could be the next NSX, thats how uninspired this car looks. When I was little, Ferrari's looked superexotic, they made you stare at them, drool even. This does not do that. Does anyone remember when a ferrari's styling was as exotic, and intoxicating as a Lamborghini's? FERRARI, I am truely let down, and this uninspired rice looking thing makes me hunt even more, for a perfect black F430 coupe in 6speed.
I can't believe Ferrari will let this pic out with the front lift on, your 2nd pic with the lower ride height looks much better and closer to the official pic.
Ferrari probably didn't let the pic out; it was copied onto someone's jump drive or something and then pirated out. It's easy to do today due to electronic media. People, I wouldn't panic over this one pic, good lord. One pic of a camo car with funny wheel gap and now the car is crap? Lighten up!
+1 Definitely a narrower track in the flesh, I am disappointed and am hoping when we see it presented properly it is closer to the released computer images. I also agree with other comments that it in this photo it looks more similar to a 430 than the computer release images would suggest, I don't think when we see it further it will be so similar or certainly hope this is not the case when we can study it from all angles.
The black car looks narrower in the rear, the wheel arch looks much wider and fuller in the release p.s. The black car looks very close the 360/430, not so dramatic here, I'm not feeling it as much as the "red car".
