RE: New Ferrari 12Cilindri is 812 Superfast successor

RE: New Ferrari 12Cilindri is 812 Superfast successor

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mirsgarage

249 posts

20 months

Friday 3rd May
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ManyMotors said:
Lovely and exciting though only affordable for a few. And even those who can afford it may have great difficulty getting one, if they can at all. Here's hoping you are in good standing with your Ferrari dealer. Or, walk down the street and get what Larry Stroll is offering.
Won't be difficult to get an allocation iirc.

MyV10BarksAndBites

945 posts

50 months

Friday 3rd May
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This will look and drive absolutely stunning on the road.... cloud9

MyV10BarksAndBites

945 posts

50 months

Friday 3rd May
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Water Fairy said:
mwstewart said:
Ferrari still like no other.

9,500 RPM, 6.5l V12. Incredible.
This

Those numbers are all any real car person needs to know, the rest of it is simply along for the ride.
beer oh yes....

MyV10BarksAndBites

945 posts

50 months

Friday 3rd May
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nsx-type-r said:
new goal!
I think im with you..... yikesbiggrin

pheonix478

1,377 posts

39 months

Friday 3rd May
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Styling doesn't really do it for me but then neither does the old Daytona. That said... 9500RPM V12, 0-125 in 7.8... mamma mia!

pheonix478

1,377 posts

39 months

Friday 3rd May
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ManyMotors said:
Lovely and exciting though only affordable for a few. And even those who can afford it may have great difficulty getting one, if they can at all. Here's hoping you are in good standing with your Ferrari dealer. Or, walk down the street and get what Larry Stroll is offering.
It's a series production car. Why would you have trouble getting allocation? The opposite I would have thought; you'll be expected to get one if you want to stay on your dealers list for the harder to get allocations.

David87

6,667 posts

213 months

Friday 3rd May
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Jex said:
David87 said:
Maybe I'm mental, but the front reminds me of the Rover SD1. hehe
Well the SD1 was designed to look like the 365 Daytona.
Ha! Never considered that and now it all makes sense.

Nish Gnackers

1,053 posts

42 months

Friday 3rd May
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CountyAFC said:
simonrockman said:
With this, the Roma, Purosangue and 296 I think Ferrari has the best looking line up in ages.
Conversely, I think it's the worst line up they've ever had.
Agreed ... The 812, Portofino, GTC4 Lusso and the 458 are much better looking equivalents to the current range and have far nicer (and non-haptic) interior style too.

Edited by Nish Gnackers on Friday 3rd May 20:48

Bradgate

2,826 posts

148 months

Friday 3rd May
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Wow.

Ferrari are making beautiful cars again, and all is well. The Roma was a pointer to them getting back to beauty, but this thing just hits it out of the ground.

OK, so 800+ bhp is completely pointless, but just look at it! Time to buy a lottery ticket.

Plainview23

318 posts

213 months

Friday 3rd May
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V12 revving to 9500rpm is absolutely nuts.

Forza Ferrari.

HighwayStar

4,319 posts

145 months

Friday 3rd May
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CountyAFC said:
simonrockman said:
With this, the Roma, Purosangue and 296 I think Ferrari has the best looking line up in ages.
Conversely, I think it's the worst line up they've ever had.
I’m in no position to own a Ferrari but I agree… I’ve liked a lot of their cars over the years but current line up, though interesting, leave me with not feelings of want whatsoever.

Galsia

2,170 posts

191 months

Friday 3rd May
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If they’re going to make a pastiche of an old model they should at least offer it with pop-up headlights

Pedaller

149 posts

14 months

Friday 3rd May
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Galsia said:
If they’re going to make a pastiche of an old model they should at least offer it with pop-up headlights
Not legal.

Galsia

2,170 posts

191 months

Friday 3rd May
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Pedaller said:
Galsia said:
If they’re going to make a pastiche of an old model they should at least offer it with pop-up headlights
Not legal.
Yeah for pedestrian-safety. I’m sure that Rolls Royce’s Spirit of Ecstasy wouldn’t be if they didn’t develop a rapid retraction system.

thepritch

623 posts

166 months

Friday 3rd May
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Pedaller said:
Not legal.
From what I understand they still are. It’s just become far too complex and costly to engineer and manufacture pop ups that conform to regs. Besides headlamps are a lot smaller now so there is also a lot less need to have the extra volume to package them.

GTRene

16,678 posts

225 months

Friday 3rd May
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thepritch said:
Pedaller said:
Not legal.
From what I understand they still are. It’s just become far too complex and costly to engineer and manufacture pop ups that conform to regs. Besides headlamps are a lot smaller now so there is also a lot less need to have the extra volume to package them.
its also bad for fuel economics I guess, bad Cw.

Murph7355

37,788 posts

257 months

Friday 3rd May
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Against the run of the thread mostly it seems, this is not Ferrari's finest era IMO.

The designs look like different people were given different bits of the cars to do, and so whilst there might be the odd bits that look OK, mostly they look unresolved, waaaaaay too fussy and poor IMO.

Less is more.

Silvanus

5,325 posts

24 months

Friday 3rd May
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The more I look at it and the more pictures I see, the worse it looks. I don't think it would have anywhere near as much praise if it wasn't a Ferrari.

Pulse00

517 posts

100 months

Saturday 4th May
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That rear glass section looks terrible.

Not a fan at all. Not even convinced it'll grow on me either. Just a mess in so many places. No elegance.

pheonix478

1,377 posts

39 months

Saturday 4th May
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Pulse00 said:


That rear glass section looks terrible.

Not a fan at all. Not even convinced it'll grow on me either. Just a mess in so many places. No elegance.
The black glass, whatever it is, looks crap I agree, front and back, IMO, looks like its still got delivery protection on!. Just had a play on the configurator and it looks fantastic in poverty spec nero with silver wheels... oooohhh