Friday 30th September 2016

Ferrari's 70th anniversary: Pic Of The Week

Well if you don't like these five liveries, there are 65 more coming...

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Ferrari isn't a company to pass up a celebration opportunity lightly, and 70 years as a car company is a pretty significant milestone. So as well as branding each of the LaFerrari Apertas with a new '70 Years 1947-2017' logo, the Tailor Made department will also make 350 very special cars next year.

The cars have already been sold- of course - but they're still worth talking about. 70 liveries have been chosen from Ferrari's illustrious history over the past seven decades, with five cars to be made in each livery. Each will be unique too, with the current Ferrari range comprising five models: 488 GTB, 488 Spider, F12, GTC4 Lusso and California T.

At Paris Ferrari previewed five, with details presumably to follow on the remaining liveries. It certainly isn't short of paint schemes to use! It's not just motorsport either; the California T here aims to evoke Steve McQueen's 250 GTL Berlinetta, with the same brown/camel leather colour combination.

The four other cars on the Paris stand are 'The Stirling' (an F12 inspired by Stirling Moss's Tourist Trophy winning 250 GT SWB), 'The Schumacher' (a 488 GTB with the 2003 F1 livery), 'The Green Jewel' (a 488 Spider paying homage to the 365 P2 that twice won the Kyalami Nine Hours) and another 488 Spider taking inspiration from a Pininfarina bodied 1953 375 MM.

And, well, they looked to make a pretty good wallpaper. Some may see it as Ferrari cynically cashing in on its heritage, but when the results look like this you'll hear no complaints from us! We'll take the F12 please...

Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone etc)

[405dogvan]

The F12 isn't too successful and brown remains brown but the Green 488 is glorious.

Note that the original car was monoposto (one seat) so they made the driver's seat ORANGE to reflect that ;0

[F40LM]

5 anniversary versions shown and no black wheels.......??? Are black wheels finally done for the foreseeable????

[405dogvan]

F40LM said:

5 anniversary versions shown and no black wheels.......??? Are black wheels finally done for the foreseeable????

We can only hope

Whilst they occasionally look OK, they mostly look like someone couldn't be bothered to clean them ;0

[Dave Hedgehog]

F40LM said:

5 anniversary versions shown and no black wheels.......??? Are black wheels finally done for the foreseeable????

There based on historic marketing cash in designs so of course no black wheels

For their 100th limited edition flog any old crap to sheep punters there will be lots of black wheels

[Jex]

Dave Hedgehog said:

F40LM said:

5 anniversary versions shown and no black wheels.......??? Are black wheels finally done for the foreseeable????

There based on historic marketing cash in designs so of course no black wheels

For their 100th limited edition flog any old crap to sheep punters there will be lots of black wheels

I don't think Ferrari offer black wheels anyway - only dark grey. If you would like black you have to get it done by an aftermarket company.

[Tuvra]

405dogvan said:

We can only hope

Whilst they occasionally look OK, they mostly look like someone couldn't be bothered to clean them ;0

Yeah what we need is more green supercars with red interiors and gold wheels please

Awful colour scheme's the lot of them, bar maybe the white 488 spider which seems to have a Lamborghini looking theme about it.

[coppice]

The green is an homage to David Piper's 365P2 ; even in the flesh it isn't a great colour . Nicest green I have seen a Ferrari in was a 250 Lusso I saw in Maranello a few years ago - pino verde was the colour and it looked achingly lovely .

[swisstoni]

Good luck to them and all that but there are a few car firms that could literally sell a steaming cart load of limited edition manure (with the relevant badges and paperwork of course) to desperate buyers.

[jhoneyball]

Cos what a road car needs is white circles on the door for you to put your race number on. <facepalm>

[red_slr]

jhoneyball said:

Cos what a road car needs is white circles on the door for you to put your race number on. <facepalm>

The modern car is based on an old car, IYSWIM. So if the old one had them the new one does. I think its quite a cool idea myself. That said I don't actually like any of them.. this is old news BTW Ferrari released all 70 mock ups about 2-3 months ago.