"GRawesome" (GRawesome)
08/02/2013 at 16:02 • Filed to: Ferrari Museum Photo Dump
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"GRawesome" (GRawesome)
08/02/2013 at 16:02 • Filed to: Ferrari Museum Photo Dump | 3
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Being an engineering type, this was one of the coolest parts of the museum. It held all the mules they used for development in recent years.
GhostZ
> GRawesome
08/02/2013 at 16:04 |
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Last time I checked, didn't the HY-KERS have a normal hood?
When did they put that god-awful double scoop on?
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GRawesome
> GhostZ
08/02/2013 at 16:06 |
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I'm not sure, could be there are 2 versions of the car? Or maybe your pic is pre-mule, it does have different wheels as well as the different hood.
AddMustard
> GRawesome
08/02/2013 at 16:08 |
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Hnnnnrrrggghhh Ferrari's ability to apply matte brushed metal color schemes is top notch.
Blondude
> GRawesome
08/02/2013 at 16:14 |
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That 348 actually looks really awesome.
KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb
> GhostZ
08/02/2013 at 16:15 |
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Development mules often haven't had the extensive aerodynamics work to affect cooling. They were probably just seeing how the systems worked before going through that trouble.
PS9
> GhostZ
08/02/2013 at 16:15 |
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The Auto show cars didn't need to be started or run for significant amounts of time, and therefore, wouldn't have needed the hood.
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KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb
> GRawesome
08/02/2013 at 16:15 |
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I would want that hood even if I had a normal 599.
Troll is English for Troll
> GRawesome
08/02/2013 at 16:20 |
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Wow. Ferrari has the world's ugliest test mules in my opinion.
How they come out of the factory looking as good as they do is beyond me.
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PS9
> Troll is English for Troll
08/02/2013 at 16:25 |
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A test mule isn't going to be available to buy, like the main product must be, so we don't need to hire Pininfarina or a fancy auto designer with a Ph.D and years of experience to help us build one.
A test mule's job isn't to look good. It's to help us tell apart the parts of the car that work from the ones that don't.
For Sweden
> GRawesome
08/02/2013 at 16:33 |
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Ferrari knows its market.
Jid M
> PS9
08/02/2013 at 17:27 |
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Do you work for Ferrari, PS9?
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Troll is English for Troll
> PS9
08/02/2013 at 18:47 |
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I didn't know that much, but it was interesting to know. :P
Though, in the case of the F150 prototype, I could never have guessed that ugly machine paved the way for the beautiful Ferrari The Ferrari.
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GRawesome
> PS9
08/02/2013 at 20:49 |
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That's a good point PS9. What you can't see in the pictures was all the exposed wiring and overall look of "jerry-rigging" inside the cars. I know it wasn't put together hap hazardously but it was done just to figure out what would work and what wouldn't. These cars don't have to be sold, they only have to prove what will work in the cars that are sold.
It was almost like something you would do in your personal car, just run a wire over the center console instead of removing all the trim and making it look pretty. It saves time and you know you are the only person that will ever see. Except in this case lots of people see it...
IFTNFS
> GRawesome
08/03/2013 at 10:31 |
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So if these are all development mules, does that make the area with the 80's-era Ferraris the "Coke mule" section?
I kid... these pictures are great and I'd LOVE to pay a visit to this museum someday. Thanks for sharing!
paradisian
> GhostZ
08/03/2013 at 20:06 |
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What the....?
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GhostZ
> paradisian
08/03/2013 at 21:18 |
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It looks good on the brutal, in-your-face front end of the Pontiac, terrible on the smooth, sloping nose of the Ferrari.