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The pictures here don't really do justice to the Rosso Barchetta paint color. The bright sunshine tends to bleach out the richness of this color. Here are a couple of views indoors when new from the factory and not polished as is the habit these days. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login - MF
Personally, I find Barchetta and silver dull; black, special; corsa, beautiful; yellow (over black seats and black headlight base), breathless; yellow with yellow seats, forget it.
Mugello w/a little less red? Red "Pozzi"? Suits a late Fiat/early Ferrari race car or maybe F50GT w/turtle on the dash ...?
So I hear! Years ago there was a silver F50 for sale in where else but Germany. Even there they couldn't find a buyer and that F50 was for sale there for ages...
Alex Penfold got what I think is a very representative photo set of a Rosso Barchetta F50. Jorge HG Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
This F50 was bought by an American buyer and has since re-sold to an FChatter. When the car was for sale in the US, differentiating the color from Rosso Corsa was the biggest hurdle - prospective buyers were hesitant to pay a premium for the rarity of Rosso Barchetta when it was difficult to discern a difference from Corsa in photos.
Remember the 'set' that FoNE was selling for 6 Million Dollars? People complained because the GTO, F40 and F50 were all Rosso Corsa but the Enzo was Rosso Scuderia and that hurt the perceived value of the set.
Absolute garbage. The person / entity listing the car does not own the car and the photos used in the advertisement are of a car with 31,000km, not 4,000 as indicated in the ad. Usually I'd think Classic Driver is above that sort of thing, but clearly the listing entity is fishing for suckers - most images in their other advertisements are from public displays or generic 'file photos'. Caveat emptor is not strong enough.
I browsed and pulled data from a lot of classifieds across North America and Europe while I was building a market data product in recent years, and one thing I noticed in a lot of Europe-based classifieds was an absurd amount of obviously fake listings. Tiny dealers and brokers claiming to always have an Enzo, MC12, Zonda, Veyron, Agera, CLK-GTR, 911 GT1, and more all in stock at the same time. With 0-3 photos per car, no VIN provided, and an idiotic asking price. I ultimately simply left many of these classifieds off my data collection altogether to avoid crapping up my database.
