'Official' F12M Rumours and Launch

That's a smart move and you can really perfect the colors and options

 

I agree with your best color being medium gray. My preference is the same ie Grigio Titanio
Hope they are some early cars out in Titanio so one can give it a real world assessment

 

Personally I think every car is sensitive to colour schemes and it's just we each have different sensitivities. I loved the grey car at the preview and think the red needed a contrasting rear splitter. I think, like the TDF, people will be surprised in the flesh. I thought the F12 looked blah in non- metallic colours and I never liked the rear.

 

the Irony ? GM obviously stole Ferrari's design...1967 275, 1969 Chevy corvette. No one ever says a Corvette looked like a Ferrari back then....or did they ? I was only 7 in 1969.
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Like a number of you, seeing the SF in person may change first opinions but the only thing that could change the rear end image is to have a black car... I suspect that if this rear end design were offered as a "kit" by an aftermarket company for the F12, very few of us would be buying it... I'll be keeping my "uterus"...

 

Of course there were few models in past that worked better with "cooler" colors, but lately I have feeling that most models in Ferrari range works better with grey, blue, black etc.

Great point indeed! Ferrari as a company is very influential, so even if something is not so visually pleasing, buyers will adore it

 

In my eyes at least the 550 is still a bland Supra look-alike, especially at the front. Because it's an old model though, it somehow looks the part after all these years. Has an elegant arse, that's for sure.

 

12th January to be exact. I have followed your work on here for quite a while and really appreciate your skill so it was easy

Grey metallic would look great but I really was hoping to have a colour that "pops" i.e. TDF or Pozzi blue or some derivative of red that works.

Once I see the car in Geneva and what the launch colour is maybe I will get some clarity ..

 

I don't know about you, but I'm super impressed with the factory photo!!

 

Small point of detail.Is this the first time the rear "Ferrari" script has been sited on glass ?

 

In 488 is on the glass too

 

Thank you, it was a fun voyage towards unveiling. Thanks to Tim for starting and championing the thread.

Thinking about it, metallic blues will also be nice - same reasoning regarding greys, i.e., less clash with black vents, less emphasis on the complexity around the quarter window scoop but nice highlighting of the surface details thanks to metallic iridescence.

Of course you will need proper wheels in silver, so they pop, jewel-like, against the darker paint. Street presence will be amazing.

BTW, maybe someone should try to specify the following special order finish that i saw on a custom car once: Black base with a blue pearl-infused top coat, unbelievable effect, looks like black chrome. Maybe can be Ferrari's next tri-strato.

 

Thanks.I've driven 488s and looked at loads but never took that in.

 

Actually the 1968 Corvette was designed well before 1967 as it should have been a 1967 but as with any new design there were problems which created delays.
The design idea came from a fish. The Mako Shark inspired several show cars including the 1965 Corvette show car Mako Shark II.
Perhaps the real irony was the lack of interest in the 275 GTB when new. The Nart convertibles were thought of as a way to create more interest in a slow selling product.

This particular example combines blue and gray!
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thanks for setting the record straight
the '67 StingRay was started long before the 275 ever saw the light of day
while Mitchell used Ferrari as a design benchmark at times, the 275 had no influence on the StingRay i'm afraid

 

I agree on grey. I am going with an earlier build (if I get one) I am most likely going Grigio ferro, cuoio and black interior. Pretty conservative but classic. Have silverstone on f12 but love GF. My dealer has a great eye and I be relying on their advice as they will have clearly seen more than me.

 

You raise valid points, but I also think the nature of modern designs is that you lose a lot of details in photos. I think some of us love elegance, simplicity, sensuality, femininity & timelessness. Others might prefer excitement. Who is right? Its design- so we could probably go around in circles for ever and ever.

You might look at the 812 and instantly hate it, or love it. I've been excited by cars for a long time so I've learned not to make a full judgement based only on pictures.

For myself, I am still cautious about the styling. But I haven't seen it in person yet.

I also prefer the F12b rear end. But I think the holes are likely for aero and apparently there is more of it than the F12b.

To my eyes the GTC4 rear end echoes the 308- but the 812 is even more angular, wide, aggressive, a bit more Germanic. For me its a question of degrees.

I was one of them because I was much younger and didn't understand the historic context of the 550. Now I see it as a classic. It brings out so many of the best parts of the 250 Lusso, 275 GTB and 365 GTB/4.

This is entirely reasonable but maybe the marketing people decided this car should be more aggressive? Its their job to know where this is all going.

Absolutely not. No way. I know how these things can go and I will probably warm up to it later. And I think this is not uncommon.

But in every example you cite, they are all the "facelift" models (though face lift is too light a term for the work Ferrari does).

That sounds amazing. Right now I am leaning towards either Blu Corsa or Blu Mirabeau.

 

1962-3 250 GTO makes my point.
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Tim, a preview to the cartoonish "812 VS Aperta"? =)
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It certainly won't be a 2+2. Completely inaccurate.

 

Your photo #1 shows a replica, and a poor one.
Not a genuine 250 GTO.

Marcel Massini

 

Thanks...just trying to illustrate that if corvette and Ferrari have similar body shapes...Ferrari was first and one could say Ferrari 250 inspired the 1969 Vette remodel.