Survey on New Ferrari F460

It always amazes me when people see these "renderings" and think it's the actual car... they are never even close...

It's just a halfassed p-chop of a F430 mixed with a 599...

 

I like the idea, but that looks more like a Lambo than Ferrari to me.

 

With the caveat that that illustration isn't real:

A. Yes, it's more cohesive looking than the 360/430 no 'pontoon' fenders. However, it's hard to say much without more views.
B. No.
C. Hard to tell from that drawing, but due to the constraints of modern speeds, pedestrian and other safety regulations, I believe it is impossible to have anything along the lines of the Boxer/246/308/328 ever again.

 

I'd like to see a revised Challenge Stradale-looking car, with wider wheels and a bigger motor. That's all they need to do.

 

The renderings posted are hideous.

"Improvement"? No. A new and different vocabulary. Very pretty. The 430 is the riced-up boy racer version.

Not if the renderings are truthful.

I don't have any faith that Automobile magazine, a shadow of itself, got anything right here. I thought Ferrari are going to back out of the more displacement/power pissing match and develop further performance increases by increasing efficiency reducing size and adding lightness. The "460" presented is bloated and ponderous.

 

I like the Enzo-esque front hood/bonnet, and the side scoops are an improvement over the 360.

The front fenders/bumper look too much like the Nissan 350Z, though.

Wheels need to be carbon fiber. Alloys are vestiges of the last century.

Side mirrors have no place on an exotic made after 2000. The inside front triangle of the window should be a TV screen, and the outside should be a tiny fiber-optic camera for that TV so that the wind resistance of large mirrors (and forward-looking blind spots) is/are improved.

 

Lower and wider has always been more exotic (think Ford GT40)

The 360 line, just doesn't have the exotic look that Ferrari had in the 80's and 90's

I'm for anything more exotic looking than the current 612, 599, and 430 (fantastic cars very elegant...but the looks aren't jaw dropping in the exotic class anymore)
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Feel the recent lines are more an appeasement towards Porsche up-scalars than Ferraristas[sic].

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I we are debating the glee of this [supposed] design, then Ferrari has failed to gain .....

 

DUH!

Like I said, I don't understand why these "drawings" are even worth debating... we all know they are NOTHING REMOTELY CLOSE to what the next car will look like. It is really irritating when people look at that and say "oh wow, Ferrari is messing up, I don't like that"... it's like, are you retarded?

 

A. the 360cs is the best looking of these new rounded versions
B. No, the 355 is far more exotic/better looking than a 360.............. and it has attractive classic lines inside and out IMO
C. The phoney illustration is too busy and seems to just muddy up the lines...... it looks like its trying too hard

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+1... the 360/430 series are excessively tall on the back end...

+1 The diablo has made a permanent mark in what it means to be an exotic....

 

Assuming those designs are semi-accurate (which they probably arent)...

It is a better direction than the 430 and 360...but still no 355

 

Is it just me or does the second photoshop have two steering wheels? WTF?

 

I thought it was abominable when it was new, and nothing has changed.

Supra front end, Cheezy grater sides, Rosie O'Donnell's rear end.

Least of Pininfarina's designs until the 599 "'Vette with a body kit".

 

Ferrari got it right with the subtle enhancements to the 512M.

 

460 Coming? I suspect not very quickly. Remember that a "Dino" is coming out in 08 or 09. Generally, Ferrari has a 5, 6 year production run for a car. The 430 hasn't been out that long. I bet that the replacement isn't going to show up until 09 or 10. 430s won't be sold in the US after 08 because of the deal with DOT (that means that maybe Ferrari will produce a lot more 08s, so the dealers can still have new product to sell).

Generally a new model doesn't have a lot more performance than what it replaces. Examples: 348, 360 weren't all that much faster than the 238 or 355, but the 355 and 430 were a whole bunch quicker than the earlier models. Go figure.

Time will tell.

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I think the 512TR is one of the best looking cars of all time and I can easily see how it would steal the limelight from those other cars.