Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Are Ferraris Losing Their Good Looks?

[LarryT (l02turner]

I'll put in my ditto's - the last group of really attractive Ferrari's are 
the 360, 550
& 456  - it was all downhill after that but.go back to the 60s, 70s & 80s & 
they were all hot chicks -

I'll bet a very high percentage of people who bought Ferrari's made during 
those 3 decades parked it in the garage that 1st night, and spent hours 
listening to music and watching their beauty radiate in the new 
surroundings.

Sincerely,
Larry T  (74 911, 91 300D 2.5T)
www.youroil.net Oil Analysis Kits &
Porsche Posters/Weber parts
.

NYT article (sans pictures), for those who might be interested.

November 10, 2008, 3:37 pm
Are Ferraris Losing Their Good Looks?
By Richard Chang

Gavin Green of Car magazine in Britain raised an issue I’ve thought about
quite a bit lately: that Ferraris “aren’t gorgeous anymore.”
Mr. Green took issue with the fat rear end of the new California model, but
didn’t stop there. “The 612 is fussy and ill-proportioned,” he said.
“The
Enzo is more bug than bird. Even the F430 lacks the visual grace and profile
poetry of the old F355, the last lovely Ferrari.”
Mr. Green points to its recent Formula One drivers, Michael Schumacher and
Kimi Raikkonen, both staid individuals, and asks: Has Ferrari lost that
innate Italian coolness?
More likely, it has to do with aerodynamics. And Mr. Green recounts a recent
conversation with Luca di Montezemolo, president of Ferrari. “He said the
styling was dictated by aerodynamics and the need to keep a Ferrari glued to
the road at 180-plus,” Mr. Green writes. “That’s why the Enzo is all
wedge
and scoops and slats and chunky lines. That big fat rump of the California —
more bustle bum than bikini bottom — helps aero performance, or so Luca
says.”
It hasn’t helped that a whole slew of beautiful vintage Ferraris were on the
auction block this year, including Steve McQueen’s 1963 250 GT/L Berlinetta
Lusso and this 1961 250 California Spyder once owned by James Coburn:They
don’t design them like the 1961 Ferrari 250 California Spyder anymore.
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