Official Ferrari photos of 612 replacement.

It looks a bit better in that picture.

It would be interesting to see it in person.

 

Cool pic!

+ 1 !

Gr. Martin

 

Very interesting, many thanks for posting!

Now on this pic the car looks MUCH better to me than on the very ugly frontal view of the first pics. Now it even looks quite pleasing, at least from this angle.

I just wonder why Ferrari didn´t use a pic like this for the unveiling in the first place!

Ciao,

Lars T.

 

I agree

Like a lot of people said Ferrari is really bad with the pictures they take of new cars and send to the press! Don't you remember the ones of the California and even the 458?

They should take pictures in real life from various "good" angles.

 

It's not really about "good" angles more that when unveiling a new car where most of the potential audience will see it by means of photograph's first it's very important to take pictures from a 3/4 angle perspective front and rear and from a height that most people would normally view a car in the metal for the first time i.e anything from a range of 5 to 6.5ft which would be most people's normal standing height. Low down perspective shots are fine when your audience knows the product they are looking at from seeing it in person in real life 3D.

The issue with Ferrari's initial pics were that they were taken low down and made the car look two dimensional as they were taken facing directly towards the front, side and rear allowing no perspective viewing of the way the surface flows over the car. Many people simply cannot visualise designs from this type of photography so taking shots from the more eye friendly perspective angle like the silver car has been gives the viewer a much better chance to asses the true shape of the car.

I'm sure the people at Ferrari who passed them for general release felt they looked good purely because they have had the benefit of seeing the car in the metal for several months and therefore know exactly how it looks. To them these shots possibly look very impressive because they have a mental image of the 3D reality of the car as a reference that allows them to interpret the photo's more successfully.

Just go back to initial impressions of the Cali and 458 made on here from similar "flat" photographs then see how peoples views have changed over the following months as they see more "real life" pics or have seen the cars in person. Many people who initially dislike the design based upon these two dimensional images subsequently change their opinion and say the design has grown on them.

 

Is that a press photo? Car looks MUCH better, the wheels are way better and it sits nice with good offsets, unlike most new Ferraris that look like 4x4s that you need to lower and put spacers on.

 

I could see this replace my X5 M as my DD. Still will have my F430 or by then an F458 for a sports car. I like it in Giallo.......Steve

 

well, i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder...but this latest ff makes the panamera look good and i hate THAT car. panamera and bentley sales will continue to rise...

the only good thing is that it will push 612 prices down, and in turn the values of the ff will drop like a rock thrown off the top of st peter's .

 

I'm surprised so many people like it. I think it's fugly. I'd rather drive a Lexus. seriously.

 

I think a ferrari design is like a wine. It needs time to be fully appreciated.

A new pic in grey.When I saw that one... I started to understand what Ferrari wanted to say with that car.

http://cdn.images.autocar.co.uk/612x408FFFFFFF/Car/Ferrari/Ferrari-2511111318585341600x1060.jpg

 

Not exactly new : looks like the same pic as posted a couple of days ago in post 196

 

Errr.... no.

 

612 vs. FF:

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Gr. Martin

 

I'm sorry but this body design will not age very well at all.. The California included.. Its new and bling bling for the moment but will fizzle out fairly fast..
Ferrari seems to be going the route of Porsche also. I'm lossing faith here..
And Porsche,,, one ugly mass produced POS family car after another made of Pot metal and cheap plastic for max. profits.
I would not be surprised if Ferraris tranmissions will be coming from Japan in the near future also !!!
The technology in the ff might be one thing but the body design team needs to go back to school and learn from a real Master,, Not play Station !!!

 

and then you have this:
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Now that's very beautiful and it ages so gracefully !!!

Regards, Robert

 

I would say that's a very pretty car.

 

thanks guys. there are many days when i dont actually get excited about it and want to trade it for something else. but compared to the new ff, it does in fact look pretty nice.

somehow the new car looks like a california with back seats and a bmw roof line, ie not great. of course it might grow on all of us....so i will wait till i see it in the flesh at the car show.

 

I know this is going to sound strange to you but when I had my Dino through out the 80s', it was pretty much looked down on as "old fashioned" -- something from the 60's. The look in the late 70's throughout the 80's was more straight lines and folded sheet metal. I viewed the 308 as a 246 Dino that someone hammered into a flat panel and added ugly black bumpers instead of the elegant chrome ones, complimented with little black plastic fins everywhere. I thought the TR was a disgrace with it's gawdy cheese grater sides.

But, I was in the minority at the time. Today, I think I'm in the majority.

My point: How you judge style depends on what point in time you're standing in.

 

Just got back from a trip to the factory to have a private viewing of the FF. It's stunning in the metal and the pic's seen thus far of it really fail to convey the great proportions and lovely styling details on this car. The tech under the skin is very impressive and the performance stats are incredible. We had a briefing by one of the engineers responsible for developing the FF and it really has been designed first and foremost as a drivers car and they have used many parameters from the 599 as a benchmark for it.

The frontal styling is the best resolved design I've seen from Ferrari in a number of years. The lights do not look anything like the 458 in person. They have a very subtle curvature in the glass that follows the crease line from the wing top and flows into the corner of the front bumper. You simply don't see this in the pics posted thus far. The rear looks great and far more sculpted than the pic's convey and there is a lot of aero trickery going on there.

I'd strongly suggest that before you make up your mind on this car you reserve your final judgement until you see one in the metal and can sit in it. You may be in for a pleasant surprise.

 

Fantastic insight Iain!

How does the size seem, in comparison to the Scaglietti?

 

The car looks a lot sleeker and less "heavy" than the 612. It's a while since I've been in a Scaglietti but the dealer I was with thinks they are fairly similar in terms of interior space. The roof line may be slightly lower on the new car. The interior of the FF is a lovely place to sit IMHO. The new leather finishes and trim options are extremely nice. We saw the car on the latest version of the Atelier configurator and it is amazing what you can do with materials and colours to personalise the interior. The panoramic roof looks like it will be a must have option and will afford taller drivers a feeling of greater space..

The under the skin tech is impressive and there are some nice gadget options like a forward view camera which also affords split front sideviews similar to the system found on the latest BMW 7 series yet the FF uses a single, discreet front mounted lens as opposed to the 7 which has separate lenses in the left and right front fender.

Be warned....the options list looks long, tempting and very likely an expensive indulgence!

This car strikes the perfect balance of elegance and sportiness IMHO. I should think everyone will quickly forget any comparisons to the BMW Z3 when they see it in the metal for the first time as it looks simply nothing like that car in real life.

I believe there are going to be three examples on display at the Geneva show in March. I would guess that one of them will be in the upstairs Atelier section of the stand to demonstrate how the car can be tailored to personal tastes.

 

Ross,

When you finally tire of it, send it on over!!

Seriously...

 

The headlight crease of the 612 really draws you into the car as well, good point!!!

 

If the FF were a coupe:
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