Does anyone know when the reviews are out ? I can’t wait, such a beautiful car in my opinion.
Some very recent pictures of the camouflaged 12 C coupé and spider outside Ferrari factory in Maranello. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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Those wheels still look like they came off a Honda Image Unavailable, Please Login Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
The top view in the first sketch is appealing. Unlike Flavio Manzoni and his team, ordinary mortals will probably never be able to see a real 12 C from that angle.
This coud have been a really cool car. Too bad the real world results are not exactly the same. Thanks for the sketch. It really highlights the design.
For the benefit of the ones that haven't been able to read the last Top Gear article about the 12 C here are some excerpts concerning the design. "Just occasionally, something’s lost in translation between poison tipped Italian and well-meaning King’s English. I’m standing alongside the new Ferrari in a Maranello studio. I ask Flavio Manzoni, the man who heads up the design department, if it’s possible to spec the black ‘mask’ bisecting its nose, the black roof section and the twin black aero flaps at the back in overall body colour. Manzoni rounds on me with derision. “If you ask to have them not in black... you walk on my body.” I think that’s an approximation of ‘over my dead body’. I’ll take that as a no then." "Perhaps that’s why the looks – unusually for staunchly anti-retro Ferrari – nod to the past while moving Berlinetta design into the future. The absolutely-never-body-colour strip between headlights as piercing as the stare of the man who drew them is a dead ringer for the Plexiglas snout of the 365 GTB/4 Daytona. So’s the cab back stance, fastback rear and sumptuously muscular haunch over the rear wheel". "The alchemy has been to balance this nostalgia with daring new ideas: the ‘delta wing’ motif of the roof and the stripped back interpretation of a Ferrari backside. Remember when you could sketch the back of a prancing horse with just eight circles? Four round lights, four round exhausts. Worked for the 550, 360, Enzo... for decades, in fact. But here we have the most controversial tail since the Testarossa. Split light bar lamps, oblong exhausts, and yet more black."
True beauty transcends and requires no words, no explanations…..it is simply beautiful. Explanations and excuses are reserved for mistakes. Inspiration? Image Unavailable, Please Login Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
If the real car looked exactly like the sketch, I’d be knocking down their door to buy one. Sadly, I don’t think it does from what I can tell in pictures. I’ll have wait to see in the metal, but my hopes aren’t high…
I don't know if you have noticed, but there is a reason why the panel between the headlights should be black or at least have a dark color. The panel is inclined to a more gentle angle to provide room for air intakes below and above it. If the panel would share a light color with bonnet, these gaps might not look so good. As it is, the shallower angle of panel looks nice to me. Image Unavailable, Please Login
In this video (Assetto Corsa Racing Simulator) it's possible to see what the car and its design elements look like in motion, in 3D images. I think just the brake lights are not correct.
Lol, I noticed that too, but I tried not to take it into consideration because it's just a simulator. Rephrasing my words from the other post: "I think just the brake lights and ride height are not correct."
