My vision of the 2009 California Spider.

i think it looks gorgeous and would hope that if that model comes back it looks something like that. Great work!

 

Really really beautiful. They should have made your design, not that piece of crap they call a Ferrari.

 

And I just noticed the rims! Very cool!

 

Wow! Looks very good!

 

Your sketching is so smooth with the lines. It looks just right and seems more of a compliment to the earlier. Very well done, I like it a lot.

 

Thats a very sexy car...would love it if the new ones looked like that.

 

wayyyyyyyy too retro.

 

+1........it's 2008 dude

 

A retro corvette?????

Still nice looking though.

 

Overall I like it. A bit of the Panoz Esperante from the windshield back, and I'm not sold on the rims, but they're creative and different in a world of nothing but 5-spoke rims.

Is it retro? Yeah, sure. But that's because it works...

 

I think it looks a lot like the Jaguar F-type concept from a few years ago.

 

Very nice. The retro ties it well to the model's heritage. With few minor changes it could be brought in to 2008 land.

 

I really like the design of your sketch but people saying that the current california doesnt look like a Ferrari, this sketch is "worse". No offense! The second design looks better and more Ferrari-ish.

 

I think the problem with Ferrari (and so many other manufacturers now) is that there seems to be a vacuum of creativity in design anymore. Ferrari's new California is a perfect example. They decided to rob the bank of their past and produce yet another model that is supposed to invoke some kind of passion from the old days. The result is a modern interpretation of an old car, which doesn't work, IMO, because it is neither the old California nor truly beautiful. Back when the original California was created, it was done so to serve a purpose (provide sexy, exclusive transportation for West Coast Hollywood types who wanted to stand apart from the crowd), and it was done with forward vision. The designers didn't say "Hey, that '29 Duesenberg was a pretty car that opitimised wealth and style in the Roaring 20's. Let's use style elements from that for our new sports car!" Obviously Ferrari was too young at the time to pull anything from their own past cars, but I don't think they would have done it even if they had cars to do it from. Why can't car companies stop borrowing from their past and just make cars that are pretty and up to date for right now???

 

I think evolution is essential. I'm just sick of every manufacturer coming out with a new car that is a retro version of an old one. The 250 to the 275 to the Daytona is a logical progression. Ford's new Mustang, or Dodge making a modern copy of a 1970 car, for example, is odd. It seems cool at first but where do they go from there? Are they going to make a 2020 version of the Dodge Daytona from the 80's?

 

neo-retro or not, I'd love to see that in production!