Why don't you see the really aggressive colors on Ferraris?

I read a memorable post here once that the stereotypical Ferrari owner is the bank manager, while the Lambo owner is the strip club manager. Hence the choice of colors.

 

Their flat yellow paints are about as wild as Ferrari gets. I've asked the same thing a bunch of times - I for one love custom colors, and thought even Dante Culpepper's metallic gold/orange 360 was great.

I would say yes, undoubtedly. Even Lamborghini knows their market is more into loud social statements and attention than Ferrari owners. There was a great article post here early last year, where IIRC a Lambo VP said their target is a more extroverted, opinionated, "gold chains and chest hair" type:


[Ehren Bragg, Lambo's area manager for North America] says that the typical Lamborghini buyer is a male entrepreneur in his forties who has "new money" and is a gregarious "people person." Just how much "new money" is required to be a Lamborghini owner? With prices of about $171,000 for the Gallardo and about $286,000 for the Murciélago, you will understand why one overhears at Le Belle Macchine d'Italia lines such as "Oh, I don't make that kind of money. I'm only a doctor" and "He only makes about eight or nine hundred thousand dollars a year. He's not Lamborghini material."

Lamborghini customers not only have newer money than Ferrari customers; they are also showier. While Ferraris tend to be blue, red or titanium, the best selling colors for Lamborghinis are orange, yellow and lime green. When Lamborghini has a black car in a showroom, says Bragg, it won't sell.

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24869

 

This a very interesting question. There is no question Lambo's look great in colors that Ferrari's wouldn't. I think it has to do with the outrageous of the design. The Muria/Contash/Diablo/ G/M/ are all edgy designs and a bit more angular than Ferrari's except perhaps for the TR which was the first Ferrari where WHITE became a famous color.

It may be that lime green doesn't work as well with curves. Gold works but is metalflake gold with pearl OTT on a curvy shape as opposed to a more angular/wedgey one?

 

Has anyone else seen Master P's gucci 360? That's either aggressive or a guy with WAY too much cash

 

Ferrari is classy, Lambo is flashy. Some girls can't get their breasts out far enough for you to gawk, others are simply stunning in a business suit. We've all seen those 911s that were done up in hot pink in the mid 1980s, gawd awful IMO. Lambos look terrible in those flashy colors IMO.

Reminds me of when my wife wanted to buy a purple Ford Explorer and I said no. My rationale was in five years will purple be in style? Say the market for a 5 year old Explorer is $12,000, to sell a purple one you have to find the right buyer or knock $2000 off. I'm sorry but $250,000 for a lime green car? I recently looked at a home for sale that was sided in mint green, I immediately said to myself "knock $10,000 off to reside this place tan or white".

If you wish to express your individuality so much, buy a lime green suit and wear it to work on Monday, see how that goes over.

 

red, yellow, black, and classy blues. Cars never ever needed to be any other colors, unless it's a Lotus Elise, then it's just cute. Oh and white is nice too.

 

Aside from athletes, who could be viewed as independent contractors, I don't think that many Lambo owners are typical "employees."

 

IMO the crazy colours on Lambos look fantastic. It is true that Lambo customers are likely to be more outlandish and showy that Ferrari buyers so why not complete the job. If you are going to drive a huge, incredible looking car that lots of people will look at, why not finish it off in a crazy colour!
I just don't think a TDF blue or Rosso Murcielago would look quite as spectacular!

There is a Lamborghini Orange F430 around though and plenty of one-off Fcars in strange colours - Green Testarossa anyone? They are around but very much exceptions rather than the norm!

 

The wilder colors go better with toupes, gold chains and pinky rings

 

Red is actuallly the most aggressive color in the spectrum. If any car company should have their cars coloured red, its Lamborghini; Think of the red cloth a Matador uses to aggrevate the Bull!

 

IMO neon green, purple and some other "Lambo" colors are just right on a Lambos. As far as "aggressive" colors being on Lambo's? Thats a matter of opinion....
If they put "hot pink" on a Lambo.. Would you still call it aggressive???

 

Well I was at the factory a few weeks back and much to my suprise and disgust, there were two ORANGE superamericas on the production line...so maybe some of those "gold-chained" lamborghini guys are crossing over to Ferrari!! But I must say I happen to like the orange on the gallardo's and murcies, but it looked piss awful on the superamerica--a car which is sorta funny looking to begin with--bubble-top and all.

 

The one thing I don't like about Lambo ownership is being associated with the gold chain, harry chest type or the Pimp Daddy Rapper, I'm neither. I'm sure Lamborghini didn't start out to attract these types, unfortunatley they go hand in hand. Cheapens the mark something awful. But not enough for me to sell

As far as the colors go, I love em all

 

Ferraris were first conceived in an era when those colors weren't even available on cars, although if you look at the road cars from the early to mid-fifties, you will see almost everything BUT red. Lambo came into being in the 60's, and the neon colors were not just a statement of attitude, but part of popular culture at that time.
Now, fast forward 30 years. Ferrari revives the Bergman 375 as a 612, its 8 cyl. cars are meant to recall the 250LM and now, a bit of Enzo (the car, not the man); it's 12 cyl. berlinetta is in some ways a recreation of the Daytona (although the 550/575 is getting a bit long in tooth). By then, even the roadcars started to go 'red' and we know what the resale market is for oddball colors in the Ferrari market. And, the cars are meant to remind owners of the high water mark of Ferrari design, which, to me, is really the 50's (sorry, GTO lovers).
Meanwhile, Lambo carries on, Diablo after Countach, Murcie after Diablo, but still, in its essence, the same car- outrageous looking, a statement, meant as a large FU, not meant to reflect connoisseurship. In fact, just the opposite.

I don't think those neon colors would suit most of the Ferraris, not just because of differences in design, but in the time periods the cars evoke.

 

Well the cops go for any car in wild colors, so If you want to actualy DRIVE I would suggest bland colors. But then most new Ferraris are bought for the pose so I guess wild colors could work. It would certainly be a change from red.

 

I think the flashy designs of Lamborghini fit well with the flashy colors. I love Lambos in lime green (ESPECIALLY the Miura!) and bright oranges and whatnot, where on a 360 it just doesn't seem like it fits. I guess if you put it like the cars were women, Ferraris would be beautiful and Lambos would be hot. I think.

 

My murcie will be orange or black. Probably black because well, I can always appreciate a pic of an orange murcie, love em at the shows, but everday seeing it in my garage, I just don't know.

 

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O my, please give Lambo their color back.

 

Is it because he's a doctor or does making 800k-900k a year somehow not enable someone to own a Lambo?

 

I agree that Ferrari has too much tradition and dignity for "outrageous" colors to look well on its cars. But I have seen some very nice Ferraris, particularly the bigger passenger models, in subtle metallics. Same goes for Maserati.

During the 1980s I recall it was Porsche that embarked upon a frolic of "wild" colors. You could flip through the Porsche section of the Dupont Registry and see a real rainbow of fun!

Back then Lamborghini was, as I recall, pretty much just red, yellow, white, black, and silver. But then the Countach was such a glorious work of sculpture that it didn't need weird paint to get attention.

Next to the Countach (particularly with wing!) today's Lambos are rather tame. Nice, but not "intergalactic". So to get the same sort of onlooker reaction, you have to dial up the paint.

I know that when I walk onto a Lambo lot, it's that dazzling pearlescent orange, yellow, and green that attract my eye. (Maserati has done something much the same recently with "Fuji White", a pearl that does very nice things to the Coupé & Spyder, though perhaps overwhelming on a QPorte.)

Lotus is also entertaining itself with the Elise, including a day-glo orange and a "Krypton" green, both of which will melt your eyeballs.

 

Aren't fighter jets silver, grey, blue, or black?
Flashy colored planes are at airshows and have smoke coming out of them!

 

hmmmmmmmm.........
Not sure..
It looks great on a Gallardo owner i know but......
Wonder what it would look like photoshop'd in purple (50th anni. lambo color)???

 

This whole debate was put best by Car and Track Magazine:

"A Ferrari is the good girl you take home to your parents, a Lamborghini is the slut you sleep with on the weekends."

I think I need one of each.