Ferrari Mailing List: Remember the Ferrari J50 Japan Special...?

[Britt2Asa (Britt2Asa]

Hi Guys

 

I have mentioned before I am an Area Group Organiser for the FOC here in the UK (At least for a few more months until I move to Stockholm).

 

One of our members is part of the design team at Marenello (I hide his name as he doesn't want to get in trouble talking about work). This guy comes to a few meetings a year when he can fly out of Italy to the UK. Owns a 328GTS.

 

Anyway he sent me the email below. I remember all the comments about how good the J50 looked when they announced it so I asked the obvious question. Hadn't realised the answer was so obvious....

 

Japan has different rules....

 

Thought you may find this interesting

 

BR in the UK

 

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Hi Britt,

 

The biggest reason is homologation! The 488 and all Ferraris have to pass regs in all countries. The J50 is only for Japan. The front crash beam is different and there is something about the headlight position too.

 

NXXX

 

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 6:56 PM, WestMidsFerrari <westmidsferrari [at] aol.com> wrote:

The J50 is beautiful. Why do they save that design for a special edition ? Why doesn't the normal car look like that? It's incredible and much nicer than the 488!

 

Regards

Britt

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On 18 Jan 2017, at 17:30, XXXX XXXX <njXXXXX [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Britt,

 

Thanks for the update. With this being such a big year, I really must try and attend more events both locally and nationally. Did you see the Ferrari J50 by the way. Very proud of that one...especially given a short design time on it.

 

Wishing you all the best for 2017