Ferrari Mailing List: Re: LAFERRARI - What's in a name?

[Brian E. Buxton (BrianBuxton]

This new LaFerrari takes a LOT of design cues from James Glickenhaus's specially commissioned P4/5 ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_P4/5_by_Pininfarina

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/pininfarina-ferrari-p4-5-feature

Brian

On 3/6/13 12:38 AM, Adam Green wrote:

I think when they named a car the "FF" we have to take it as a sign they've run out of names.

To me, the F70 looks like the "futuristic" sports car toy I had in the 70's, pushing around the floor, going "brrm, brrmm, eeeee" (even then, I tended to go hot in and oversteer out of the turns ... old habits die hard) and the F40 still looks to my eyes like the epitome of a Ferrari.  I'm not blind to the aging performance or the flaws in its design details, but still, car for car, money no object, no points for Nurburgring times, I'd still take an F40.

I feel like if I died of a heart attack driving an F40, they'd bury with the epitaph "doing what he loved" but if I died of boredom behind the wheels of these hyper hybrids, they'd say "he knew the risks."

Adam

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Grahame Reinthal <grahame [at] reinthal.com.au> wrote:

Actually, “la” is also used in Italian as the article “the”, so here it is “TheFerrari”. But I can think of at least 4 problems with the name. 1) Like the names “Ferrari Modena” or “Ferrari Italia” or “Ferrari Mondial”, etcetera, is it a “Ferrari LaFerrari”?  2) If this is THE Ferrari, what do you call the next one? 3) LaFerrari just sounds kind of silly to me (like – Laugher-rari). 4) If this is THE Ferrari, what does this say about all the predecessors?  Have they been relegated to obsolete and irrelevant junk?  I feel a bit offended!!  ;-)

 

Cheers,

Grahame

 

From: Brian E. Buxton [mailto:BrianBuxton [at] BuxtonMotorsports.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 6 March 2013 4:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] LAFERRARI - What's in a name?

 

French name to an Italian car.

Brian

On 3/5/13 11:30 PM, Michel Savard wrote:

I truly like the new Ferrari. But I am really really disappointed  of the name. I've never ever questioned the names Ferrari gave to their cars. But this one is ridiculous.

Can you imagine DASBMW ? DASMERCEDES ? And any other car company giving a new car its own name!!!!

What were they thinking ?

Why don't we start to rename it ? Any suggestions ?

 

Michael Savard

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