@day355 I've been hearing that paint prices have risen so much because of Zanasi, and that Ferrari are working to have all painting be done in-house, which in turn would bring the paint prices to a more reasonable level. Is there any truth to this?
@Kmaaq, I have zero information. But if they're able to lower costs, my guess is they will pocket the difference rather than pass it on to us. Unless they're seeing a dip in demand for the high cost paints. And I wouldn't have guessed that to be the case. Curious to hear if anyone knows the goings-on though.
We ordered a Piloti Car. This means we passed up on the spider in favour of the Piloti coupe. We have a Pista spider and a coupe 458 Speciale so it seemed fitting. There aren’t any pics I can find on the internet of other colours (I saw the red car at Le Mans) so I thought I would post some renderings of two of the other colours, the two we chose from. Notice the white wheel option rendered on the blue car. I think it looks good, although we chose the silver car. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
What's the appeal of the piloti? Why is it any more desirable than the coupe? I understand the aperta's desirability and rarity, but why choose the piloti over the aperta? Seems like a coupe with a special livery.
I like the blue/gold combination. Reminds me of the Azzurri. 2006 Del Piero still in my closet somewhere, haha Image Unavailable, Please Login
It is indeed a coupe with a special livery, but it is (probably) more limited than the aperta. Besides, an aperta as a so-called track oriented version is an oxymoron.
Almost certainly more limited than the Aperta. For Pista, there were something like 1100 Spiders and 1-200 Pilotis (numbers seem to vary, official quote was 40 but there was a registry floating around with ~100 cars, even if it's off by a factor of 1.5 or 2 that's still around a couple of hundred cars). I don't really understand the Piloti, but it seems like something if you're offered, you should probably take. I didn't love the livery on top of a red base when I saw it, but it looks good in silver.
That’s kind of my thinking. We have a Pista Spider that has been great, but it’s less appropriate for the track (though I have used it on track once). With the spider already in the garage, no need to double up. The Piloti is rarer than the spider and since we had a chance to get one, plus it matches our 458 Speciale coupe and I’ve used that on track a few times, it seemed a better idea. The 458 also stays in our garage but I fancied having another Ferrari that I could sometimes take to the track. The 458 Speciale is 10 years old this year and we’ve had it from new and know almost everything about it. So ‘new’ Speciale coupe, and a new experience on the road and track it is.
