Pick A Single Styling Detail On Any Ferrari

Had to have two:

First one is the lines on a 328 GTB--ALL of them, most notably the roofline absent from so many targas out there. This is Scuderia NoVA's car... For some reason, silver makes it pop twice as much. I LOVE the hardtop line this car has... It makes the already mentioned fender line look so much better. Brings the whole car together.

Second is a simple thing that I noticed after spending quite a lot of time looking at the F50, my favorite Ferrari--it's the F40 throwback side vent recessed in the main scoop. To me, it hints at the detail that went into all the little unseen things that make it so special.
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458 doesn't have this feature ... ?

Pete

 

355's lines......... *drool
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i think it's just that foward rake look of the body when you face the driver or passenger sides of the car

 

Wide rear fenders (hips) and recessed light area on the 288GTO. Extremely aggressive looking and beautiful at the same time.
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Great picture! That's the end of the back straight approaching the oval's turn 3 at Indy. What an epic drive that was. Hopefully I can drive to a North American F1 race again soon!

Back on topic...

To keep it on the open-wheel tip, here's my pick: The double decker diffuser on the F60...wait a minute. We don't HAVE a double deck diffuser on our F1 car this year. Or Schumi subbing for Massa for that matter.

 

Yes, sir. Nothing but agreement here.

My second favorite thing on any Ferrari (by a very small margin) is how you can see the guts hanging out of the back of the 288GTO. I'm not mechanically knowledgeable about these cars, but I'm going to guess its the differential, and it gave me chills the first time I saw it in real life. It's so awesome to see the business end of the car peeking out from under the sexy sheet metal.

 

That's actually the gearbox. Being all racer-ish, the transmission hangs out back like dat.

I'd have to say my favorite styling feature is the impossibly thin C-pillar on the Daytona coupe. Delicate, beautiful, imitated countless times.

 

Long time no see, Todd.

 

I like this:

BT
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The 246/308/328 air intakes...Beautiful and purposeful..

 

I know the feeling. Kind of like when the breeze is just right and you are standing behind a good looking woman in a skirt

 

Everyone who sits in my car comments on the switches and levers on the center console. I usually say "this one is for a smoke screen, this one releases tacks and this one puts down an oil slick."
Anyway, the cool interior is what kept me in a 308 and not a 328.
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Yeahhh I have got exactly the same feelings(my favouryte nsx thing is that you write there,nsx reminds Ferrari for that shape).

But my first vote should be the ROUND quad,double paired,TAIL LIGHTS(and also the not paired round lights from some 250/275 family models),,why? because if you see the spare part alone it means nothing,but when you put this lights into that car,s rear shape,they are simply amazing,dammm,no other kind of tail light design are so perfectly fitted for this pinninfarina shapes,no way,beautifull.The independent round dual/quad tail lights are going to remind Ferrari forever to me:


Oh yeeeeeeah,perfect tail lights there,is pure sex,orgasmic ¡¡¡
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Agreed. Often the simplest shapes are the best.

 

That's interesting, because I think vintage cars' good looks don't come down to distinctive details. The 275 GTB headlamps and the Jag E-Type's are fundamentally similar. And the 250 GT SWB, which is one of the prettiest cars ever made, looks great because of its proportions more than a single styling detail. Ditto the Lusso - the car as a whole is spectacular, but if you view it in fragments you might not get it. And one wire wheel looks a lot like the next.

By the time you get to the 246 and Daytona, the cars started to acquire more memorable styling bits -- the door handles, for example, are art. And the Daytona introduced those five-spoke 'star' alloy wheels that personified Ferrari through mid-1988. The 308/328 intake. The 308/328/348/355 flat rear deck with vents. Etc.

By the time you get to the modern California and 599, there is nothing (positively) distinctive about basic proportions, so we're left to argue over the California's retro hood scoop or the 599's add-on buttresses.

 

While I agree you must admit there was some fine jewelry on many of the early cars. In particular those by Vignale.
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the rear swoop (rear window to the tip of the tail) on the Lusso.

 

Like this?
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I kinda like this.
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Side strakes on the 348.

 

One of my favorites, so many to choose from:

It's a clean design, and it always looks good.
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To me, this might be the most iconically Ferrari thing mentioned so far. I can't see that shift gate and simple ball shifter on anything but a Ferrari.

 

that right there is sex...

 

In my old Dino gt, I thought the curved rear glass and the 3/4 panel that gave excellent rear visibility was awesome. I wondered how they got the glass to bend like that without distorting or breaking. That plus the thinness of the roofline pillar amazed me that it could be strong enough.

I don't think another car since has tried it in mass production as exaggerated as it is on a Dino.
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