Ferrari F599

I think they should have looked at the heritage of its desgin before naming it , this may have been more suitable

Ferrari 599 Hyundiacoupe-Nissan350z-Corvette-BMWz4-XJS GTB

No doubt it will sell out for the first year or two of production before sticking on the forecourt like the 612 seems to be doing

 

Shall we guess the price that it will be on sale at ?
My bid is £175,000
Any other guesses?

 

£194k

 

You know what I think that you could be close!

 

The question is are Lambourghini going to be intelligent enough to pitch the Miura against the 599GTB (what happened to naming models all of a sudden) and a front engined GTB! talk about loosing your heritage!

Is it only me that thinks its weird that all the magazines are talking about the Miura as a competitor to the Enzo...how can a 60's retro look be anywhere near aerodynamic enough to compete with a 21st century wind tunnel derived design - weirdos...far more sensible to price the Miura against the 575M etc. in my opinion. Given the "fresh" 599GTB I would say the Miura would go down a storm.

 

much better butt than 612 i would say

 

The original Muira went head to head with the Daytona arguably the greatest Ferrari ever and front engined, and the outcome was that the Daytona was the winner, the heritage of Ferrari does not lay with mid engined cars, Enzo despised anything that was not front engined and fought hard against producing a mid engined car, when he relented and gave the go ahead for a mid engine car (206) the car never wore a Ferrari badge, anyway i love the looks of the 599 in the same way i like the 612 both great designs IMO.

 

By then the Ferrari badged 250lm had already been produced and won Le-Mans in 1965......The reasoning behind the Dino badge and brand was that Ferrari's customers wouldn't accept a V6 when up to that point Ferraris road going cars had traditionaly been V12's (with the exception of sports racers like the 750 Monza's and Mondial's)
By the time the Muira went into production Ferrari & Pininfarina had already produced a few mid engined V12 prototypes/show cars.....The Daytona was always percieved to be the last of the front engined cars, even whilst it was being developed

 

I know mate but i believe the 206 was the first mid engined car designed sorely for road use.

 

well I actually like it a lot. Lots of aggression in the design. Can't wsait to see it in teh metal.

 

Just hope that it is one of those cars that looks better in the metal than on paper