Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Wonderful Car List

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

I find some taillight designs do look good but I don’t care for the “angry eyes” look of headlights these days. Why be so aggressive?

 

Peter

 

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From: Rick Moseley
Sent: September 6, 2021 7:12 AM
To: Peter Rychel
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Wonderful Car List

 

Agreed Peter.   "Form following Function" seems to have given way to "because we can".

 

One of my pass-times when traveling public roads is to look for the outlandish cut-outs, creases and voids in modern bodywork that are then filled with segments of head and tail light bodies.  Makes you wonder if a major proponent of the legal drug movement were car designers.

 

I got a laugh at the marketing wanks "Eye Catching Design" on the new Honda Clarity...   certainly a design by committee with 5 groups getting a piece of the car and none of them allowed to see what the others were doing.

 

On Sunday, September 5, 2021, 10:38:31 PM PDT, Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

 

 

My impression of car design nowadays is that they’ve run out of ideas and are just doing outlandish for outlandish’s sakes. You could get away with that back in the ‘80s as it was that last coke-fueled hoorah left over from the 1970s spaceship school of design.

 

It’s why I really appreciate the look of the new Roma. It’s a really nice clean shape that introduces new features to the traditional elements that (maybe) Ferrari had been hanging onto for too long. Without all of the extra stuff that seems to have become de rigueur (slats, slashes, scoops, creases, etc). This car has really grown on me in just a short time since it’s introduction.

 

My Mondial gets compliments every time I park it somewhere. People are shocked when I tell them it’s 32 years old...

 

Peter

 

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From: Douglas Anderson
Sent: September 5, 2021 9:34 PM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] Wonderful Car List

 

Lash posted “All wonderful designers and shapes.” List

 

 

Good list Lash . . .

 

Sports car design in general – lets take Porsche and Ferrari as sports cars on the same continuum.

 

Porsche does it’s “Form Follows Function” schtick and says “like it or leave it.”

 

Ferrari designs the sexist most bodacious beauty’s and then asks – where do we put the gas tank(s)?  Passengers?  Luggage . . . .

 

Gotta love our 308GTS, exceptin’ for changing sparkplugs, carrying Hershey bars in my luggage, doing a suspension over haul . . . .

 

Cheers

Doug

 

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