Matt Farah had me thinking...

"Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras" (jegoingout) 12/17/2015 at 09:27 • Filed to: None

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...how come there isn’t a Ferrari California T coupe? He brought up that point in a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and made valid points in regards to weight and rigidity. Why isn’t Ferrari making a fixed roof version?

Gawd this thing is pretty

Party-vi > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 12/17/2015 at 09:39

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The California isn’t a race car. Reduced weight and increased rigidity would serve it no purpose. Also, IIRC it’s the only convertible Ferrari makes, so if someone wants a fixed-roof car they have to step up into a 458.

DrScientist > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 12/17/2015 at 09:45

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while it would make a solid vantage competitor in looks and likely surpass a vantage in performance, i imagine there are some bean counters somewhere who figured out they would just be cannibalizing their own f12 and 458 sales.

you want a fast hard top ferrari? give us another 50k for a 458

you want a front engined GT car? give us another 100k for an f12

while the rendering is indeed really good looking, i applaud ferrari for not going down the bmw route of making a different model or sub model to fill every last segment, and then creating some more segments to fill in as well.

Party-vi > DrScientist 12/17/2015 at 09:49

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“i applaud ferrari for not going down the bmw route of making a different model or sub model to fill every last segment, and then creating some more segments to fill in as well.”

Meanwhile, Ferrari is now making a fugly AWD hatchback.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Party-vi 12/17/2015 at 09:50

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how dare you speak ill of the FF

Party-vi > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 12/17/2015 at 09:51

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F ugly F errari.

DrScientist > Party-vi 12/17/2015 at 09:54

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ha!

i actually like the FF. it has real presence in person/on the road.

in my mind, its a reasonable strategy to move their 2+2 front engine v12 GT away from their 2 seater front engine v12 GT

also, the ff’s awd system is pretty trick.

Opposite Locksmith > DrScientist 12/17/2015 at 10:48

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It's pretty trick, but engineering wise it scares the shit out of me

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 12/17/2015 at 13:30

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I agree that Ferrari is unlikely to do so, because of the lifestyle aspect of the convertible, with the NVH benefits of the rigid folding top that is near-a-coupe when raised.

But that is a good looking coupe.

That might be the spiritual successor to the 550/575M’s subtly handsome good looks, more than the ostentatiousness of the F12.

Frankly, I want the Nissan 370Z replacement to look this good, or a new Chrysler Barracuda, or something actually affordable.

This solves the bulbousness of the rear end of the California, and may actually be the most cleanly styled, possibly-timeless aesthetic Ferrari since the 550/575.

Ratchet when he's all hopped up on synthetic energon > DrScientist 12/17/2015 at 19:32

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I don’t know that I’d call it “trick”, it seems like the type of shady hack you’d see on a LeMons racer.

DrScientist > Ratchet when he's all hopped up on synthetic energon 12/18/2015 at 10:03

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some may call it a shady hack, i’d call it a simple and elegant solution.

why send torque out of the rear of the engine when the wheels that need it are in front of the engine? oh... look at that, the crank shaft happens to reach BOTH the rear AND the front of the engine.

i’m sure it could be accomplished through a shady hack in a shady mechanic’s shop, but i wouldn’t put the ferrari engineers into that group. limited real world testing? sure. questionable reliability? maybe. shady? nah.

DrScientist > Opposite Locksmith 12/18/2015 at 10:04

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because it’s never been done before? or because there’s some inherent flaw in the engineering?

Opposite Locksmith > DrScientist 12/18/2015 at 14:11

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I have had bad luck with transmissions my whole life. So essentially having two, scary.