Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 488 GTB

[Adam Green (FlatCrank]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:

I just wish the guy that designed the front of the NSX was introduced to the guy that did he back end. Just once. 

​Agreed.  The same is true for many cars.  I guess some would say the start at the front end is easy.  Rather like sex.  Anything at the rear end is not necessarily pleasant for all involved.  Certainly not anyone looking at it ...

The 458 is, again, at the cost of sounding (but I assure all, not thinking) that my opinion is worth even the two cents, the front view, and the rear view and many of the side quarter angles, plus especially the direct overhead silhouette of the 458 are spectacular achievements, and aerodynamically effective.  Truly marvelous.  But you move around the front and look at those headlights, the flab slab sided haunches, the oddly unplanned "painted myself into a corner" angles as they tie it all together ... ugh ... 

In sharp contrast, the 599 ... it seems to be all but flawless and with such indulgent flourishes that are still understated and could even go unnoticed -- not flamboyant, I would describe it as an ebullient, graceful horse capable of intense speed, yet equally at peace frolicking across the landscape without a care in the world and a limitless abundance of performance to match any driver.

And conversely again, the California is a dull, hefty beast, and gathers its unpleasant, unfinished unmentionables together with stretched elastic cords, and clips and clamps in an entirely unsatisfactory, hurried mess.  Ferrari really should have told the bean counters "no" rather than build that bloody car.