Ferrari 458 Italia 'Scuderia' Lookalike

[Shmee]

New demonstrator car of Maranello Ferrari in Egham; it's designed by the factory as a demo of what customisation they are capable of:















Thoughts on the looks?

[wicz]

pretty horrible...

I have a mate whos taken a similar aproach to personalising his car. He's sprayed bits of his rover orange.

[justin220]

Awful

[astroarcadia]

Just not necessary. Why would Ferrari want to send 458's out of the factory that look like this?

Ferrari should leave it to Mansory et al to customise (ruin) their cars.

[MDahmen]

looks a bit McD carpark imo

[mlj]

Only nice parts for me are the stripe, because everything with a stripe is cool and also the alloy design.

[AndrewW-G]

When are they painting it, or is primer grey the new blackboard black?

[Mini1275]

That is just awful .

[traxx]

If you want to see some more extreme customisation have a look at the latest Ferrari magazine

imo the white 458 spider with blue stripes and blue leather and blue wheels looks quite good

but they have a black 458 which is like the Maranello one but with all the accents in orange

[Mosi]

Those wheels are sublime, but I dont care for the rest of it.

Each to their own

[Luca Brasi]

Looks pretty damn awful. Like that shade of grey though. What is it?

[Vilhelm]

Rancid.

[Henry Hawthorne]

The wheels look too small for the arches?

[Bebee]

Not nice

[crostonian]

I think this latest fashion to customise cars to the nth degree from factory built has the knack of producing some real horrors all in the name of individualism.

Am I the only person who preferred it how it was in the 80s when there were approx 10 exterior colours and 5 colours of leather and just one alloy wheel design?

[Justices]

The factory should hold tighter reigns on what goes out of the factory I think. By the by, does the 599 in the background (7th pic down) have black shields rather than yellow on the wing?

[Shmee]

Justices said:

The factory should hold tighter reigns on what goes out of the factory I think. By the by, does the 599 in the background (7th pic down) have black shields rather than yellow on the wing?

Yes it did, I've seen a few like that now.

[bigricho]

Justices said:

The factory should hold tighter reigns on what goes out of the factory I think. By the by, does the 599 in the background (7th pic down) have black shields rather than yellow on the wing?

The 599 behind it has also been heavily cutsomised/specced as well. Carbon fibre Scuderia shields and some nice split rims. You didn't happen to take any pics of that as well did you?

Edited by bigricho on Saturday 7th January 21:47

[UH-Matt]

Horrid.

Thise wheels look great on this one though - http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3505797.htm

Great colour (slightly biased)

[SonnyM]

MDahmen said:

looks a bit McD carpark imo

It would look pretty good parked in McDonalds...

Would have thought F would have dropped the "Pepe Le Peu" color schemes and gone for something more subtle given the 458 has such a lovely design.

Subtleness works: