SC 40 One Off

https://www.thesupercarblog.com/one-off-ferrari-sc40-is-inspired-by-the-legendary-f40/

 

I'm trying to find a positive aspect... Oh yes, we're lucky, she's ugly, yes! but she's unique.

 

I dig it. Much better than the 849. Although, it would look better with a more simple front end rather than the additional cleft towards the bottom. I think some more symmetry behind the doors would look good too. The problem with Manzoni is that he has no sense of beauty. He's all about avant garde style. Ferraris are supposed to be beautiful and flowing.

 

Here's the original story https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/corporate/articles/ferrari-sc40

 

Its fine. Nothing special.

 

Makes F80 far better design.

 

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/how-many-sp-cars-so-far.407293/page-9#post-150293217

 

Looks like a slightly less bad 849.

 

I’m speechless and not in a good way.



Ferrari design now is all about graphic breakups and meshing disjointed elements. I’m starting to think they have no idea how to surface or have ever done a scale clay themselves.

Their current designs are indicative of photoshop “designers” who have a poor grasp of form. The “Transformer” school of design.

I’ve seen better concepts from students.

 

It's not bad. Just seems like a waste of the 40. But whatever. Hope the guys happy. Wish I could do something like that

 

Ferrari - Handbag and apparel brand..

 

It seems after Ferrari ran out of Pinnin Farina future road map designs like the 488 and 812 and Roma, (yes, though not credited, those are PF designs purchased by Ferrari), they were stuck designing on their own. Without the true , gifted artisan touch of a dedicated design house Ferrari has come to dip a little further in its design cycle of highs and lows. I do think the Cylindri is spectacular, and of course in person every Ferrari a spectacle but generally, the newer design signatures are,IMO, more common than before.

Hopefully a path to peak is again on its way from what appears to be a bit of a slump.
Oh, and fire the design chief who claims to not like cars with faces… mind the stairs.

 

Just when I think their designers can't produce anything worse.........

 

The "new F40"?
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Suuuuuure.... Why not?

Since THIS is the "new Testarossa", I guess that just about anything goes.


The Design Dept. has shifted into a new "AP* Phase", as they learn about aesthetics from late 60s/early 70s CanAm racers (not necessarily bad, but the flowing beauty of PF has left the building)

* - Anti-Pininfarina

 

vile

 

Without knowing the details of the specific brief its difficult to know how successful this is, I keep seeing 308 in the front design elements. Not a lot of F40 to be honest.

 

For me any F40 tribute or homage has to have at least one NACA duct somewhere….

 

I see the F40 in there in some ways, but i wouldn't compare it to the F40, or call it a "re-imagined" or whatever.
As noted in my "Can Am" comment, it's not necessariy a bad thing, and in this case, I like it better than the F40 - one of PF's missteps, IMO (too boy-racer drawn in 4th grade English class or something).

Ferrari, and other manufacturers, need to stop insulting their original designs by re-using the names of classics (yes, even the Testarossa, modifying the late 50s Testa Rossa name), and let a new design stand on its own.
Look what they did to the Testarossa (post 12).
Look what Maserati did to the Ghibli.

 

This car, like the 849 Testarossa, are an affront to the heritage designs they are 'based' on.

This SC40 looks like something a 3rd rate video game company would have as a fantasy car to drive on fantasy circuits against other fantasy cars. Like Top Gear 2 on Super Nintendo.

I haven't personally liked any of the recent Ferrari designs and dumping Pininfarina was a major mis-step for the company as a whole.

 

It s the ew vaccum cleaner by Roventa.

 

terrible styling and is being slated all over the internet as such

 

I quite like it but that is irrelevant. As with all these Special Projects, only one person has to like it and that is the customer who commissioned it. I like that Special Projects exist. I like that if I had enough money (which I don't and won't!) I could go to Ferrari and have a car designed to my requirements and no-one else's just like I could have done in the 1950s by going to Vignale or Touring or Pinin Farina etc.

Anyway, it looks a hell of lot better than the Purosangue and isn't a truck!

 

Disgusting. Hopefully whomever is responsible for this can get their meds adjusted .

 

Let’s be honest…. This thing looks like Storm trooper, Hotwheels ********. Let’s trot out all the historic names (we are now on the third Testarossa and have reused Daytona, Super America, 512, etc.) and look back through company design history, isolate design elements from important and historic cars and shoehorn them onto a generic exotic platform and expect praise. This leads to weird bands, awkward connections, strange vent or intake locations and disjointed designs. What made Ferrari special in the past was exceptional performance melded with a striking, balanced and proportional visual appearance. Both form and function were exceptional and elegant. I am sure that this example performs well as a car, but visually relying on reinterpreted throwback design elements from history and smearing them onto a platform will not be successful moving forward.

 

The "problem" can be summed up as simply the pursuit of downforce has robbed us of elegant styling.