F12 - Blue Americano? Sane choice or rare for a reason?

Asked if they can make azzurro dino f12for me. Their answer was if time and money are not issue, sure they can. I backed off without asking price though...

 

I thought Blue Americano was a dark metallic blue - more like BMW's Carbon Black? It looks good, but only can only really appreciate it in the sunlight. There's some pics of an FF in that color on this forum. Also, some pics of an F12 apparently in that color on page 29 of the F12 picture thread. The other three layer bright blue that is close to BMW's estoril blue was Blu tri Strato, I think - there's a GTO in that color (pic of it in GTO pic thread).

 

Yes, it's more like BMW Carbon Black, which looks black in low light but is really a deep metallic blue in sunlight. There was a Blu Americano F12 at the Challenge Days event at Sonoma Raceway recently.
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Saw this car in person, in multiple light settings. (In fact, they let my wife and daughter take it for a ride...). Our FF is Pozzi, we had been tempted to do TdF, but this color was really sharp, almost "in the middle" in some ways.

We added Americano to the list of the few colors for our F12 spec...though the matte silver car was incredible. They had it in the garage next to my car Thursday night and I must have stared at it for an hour.

FWIW, we looked at Americano on the config, in the sample book and on a "model" at the Atelier, it looked WAYY different in person, both inside, outside, sun and shade.

 

Reminds me of one of the best paint jobs I ever saw (was on some kind of street rod) which was black with a top coat of clear with blue pearl. Similar sort of effect and very dramatic, like black chrome.

As this is a tri-strato, I expect the effect to be very similar.

 

Looks like Pozzi, which is my favorite color. Go for it.

 

Anyone seen the Blue Scozia?

Mario

 

It's pretty, but not what I would get personally. Especially if I had a bunch of other blue Ferraris.

 

http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/05/the-ferrari-experience-458-spider-dream-drive/
This is the color.

 

One colour missing in the range is a good deep metallic blue. Pozzi metallic would be great and is possible under their special colour program.

 

It's beautiful on the 458...not sure about a bigger car. Damn that spyder looks good! What a car!

 

Is this Blue Americano?

 

I think its possible to order about *any* colour for your f-car. So you can have them paint your F12 a BMW or MB colour if thats what you want. Maybe a bit costly but probably less than the in-house 3 layers they offer......

 

No -it's either blu mirabeau or blu ribot. There was one entire thread about that colour. It's gorgeous.

 

The article states Azzurro Monaco which is a colour that has been around for years, however also says it's a 3 layer colour which I didn't have a clue of. I still doubt it is a 3 layer, though.

 

I thought it was Avio. By the way what is the ''official'' name from Ferrari for Avio?

Thanks in advance.

 

I think it's simply Avio Metallic

 

that's gorgeous. love BMW carbon black.

 

would love to see a pic of that blue 515BBI...never seen one other than black or red

 

Have you verified this Electric Blue info with an official dealer or something? Hope it is not just the person who took the video that named the colour at his own criterium.