Spotting at the factory gates, Maranello, Italy (September 2009)

Lars the black F40 was the only vehicle I have seen with the word TEST used. Typically for the factory tack on license plate there is a 4 digit number at the bottom of each plate. Supposedly each test driver has his own personal 'factory plate' which he is responsible for. Did any of the other cars that you saw have a "TEST" plate?
CH

 

Again, some gorgeous pics...thanks Lars!

On colours, i think that the green Scuderia is finished in Verde Zeltweg. Hard to tell in this weather...

On the reds, one must not mistake the current Rosso Monza for the much nicer (imo) more "bluer" shade of the same name of the mid nineties. Mental point to ask whether the latest Monza (which is ceramic-based) is effectively a reformulation of the old or a totally different colour in new-tech. My money is on the later.

I also had a 2001 456 MGTA in Rosso Fiorano; the latest hue appears fuller and less orangey in bright sunlight than I remember, so I trust that Ferrari have worked with PPG to improve coverage and tone on the previous formula.

Rosso Fuoco is imo gorgeous; it could easily be renamed Silk Red, such is the smoothness of its application; it is a colour that looks both formal and aggressive on a Ferrari, the latest 458 at Fiorano highlighting this fully.

Decisions, decisions....

 

Awesome pics! It's pretty funny that some people who buy these cars go to resell them and advertise them as never seeing rain before...

 

lmao!

 

I am half-way confident that many 599s that appear to have Rosso Monza as their exterior colour are actually painted in a non-ceramic "equivalent" colour. Still extracampionario (at a lower cost) but more easily repairable away from Maranello.

Rosso Fuoco was available in the Atelier last December when I specced my 612. It is one of the Atelier colours that have gone "public", I assume as a cheaper alternative (again) to the new F1 colour that has started appearing on the production line.

 

Great pics Lars!

Any spots of the 599XX? We saw it being driven on Fiorano last May. A set-up with weird exhausts. Maybe to mute them?

Robin
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Hi Larsini,

Great to see you're still the Super Spotter!

Our friend J-L left for Maranello yesterday to pick the very last Scuderia with his son. Maybe you've seen it on the road as well! I'll ask the specs when he's back home.

Ciao, Pietro

 

nice pics

 

Great pix Lars. Love the new 458. Thanks

 

WOW!!!!!!!!!!

 

Lars,

What great pictures!! Thank you for enduring the cold rain to bring them to us.

No disrepect to you or your pictures, but I wonder why no one has never put a webcam outside the gates to capture cars like these driving by.

I know I for one would NEVER get any work done!!

Bill

 

Nice job you are doing...put your camper in front of that F-gate. Make a living out of it...
Thanks for sharing this with us, Lars.

Guido

 

Four Matte Black 16M's in four days That first one looks almost like Grigio Opaco in the pictures.

Thanks for the pictures Lars, looking forward to tomorrows update

 

The 250 PF is without any Prancing Horse sign on front, neither has it the PF signs on the fender or on the on the boot!

Any paperwork you did collect? books, brochures...etc.

 

apparently you can no longer have a stripe on a grigio opaco car due to the matt paint.

Lars from the 4 matt cars you saw were 2 of them RHD?

 

+2

great sighting!!

 

The first blue Calif looks like TdF Blue. Possible NART Blue for the second Cali?
CH