Ferrari F80

I'm sure it looks stunning in person but in pictures it looks like a lego car.

 

True. Pictures often give false impression for this car. It does have sharp edges but that won't make it a lego car.

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We must do Flavio Manzoni justice because he explained why he put the black visor on the front of the F80. In short, he wanted to be original, futuristic and anti-anthropomorphic so that the front of the F80 would not be comparable to that of its predecessors or to that of any other Ferrari of the past except the 12C, which he created and follows a similar concept.
When I compare the front of the F80 with those of all its predecessors representing various eras, IMO the F80's is the least achieved and it seems to me that it would not have been difficult to do much better, which is why I say that Manzoni "ruined" it in search of originality, futurism and ultimately to feed his ego.



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What I read between the lines of that fantasy story he's telling, is that he's run out of ideas for headlight designs - or someone at the top doesn't want to invest in the production of custom headlight designs, and thus they aren't designed. Did anyone ever, in the history of car design, complain that a car was anthropomorphic?

It's like an amateur painter looking at all the beautiful paintings in the Louvre and convincing himself that "No, I don't want my paintings to look like that, I'm going to paint a Rothko".

 

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Well, I do. Not so many years ago they used hidden headlamps and many race cars have not headlights at all, so for me the idea is not so far-fetched.

I don´t want to get into the non-figurative art debate because that´s too complex for me.

 

I really like the effort you do with the comparison pictures. Thanks for those!

Anyway, I think F80 is an evolution of its predecessors. F50, Enzo and LaFerrari all refer to F1 nose designs of their time. In F80 this trend continues, the visor being the angled F1 front wing.

Black pieces come and go in Ferrari designs. The black visor in F80 is nowhere near as distruptive as the black lower half of 365 GT4 BB and 512 BB. This black trend contiued also in Testarossa and 348, but in lesser form.

The combination of black and red is typical also in F1, with arguably the best designs being body in red with black wings.