Here are some more pictures of SP FFX, courtesy of the Ferrari Owners Club NL facebook page. I quite like the CF roof. But anything and everything inspired by 60 F1 Alonso is absolutely horrible. The rear end is pretty weird too. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I often wonder what goes through the mind of a person that orders a proper one of Ferrari and they come up with tripe like the P540 Superfast, SP1, Claptons thing, and now this. If you have free reign surely you can do better than that? Look at what Jim did with the P4/5. And if you don't have free reign, and this is all they can come up with...I'd be seriously pissed off.
As far as I know, the owner of SP FFX is Japanese. Hence the car was recently exhibited in Japan along with SP1 which belongs to a senior member of the Japanese Ferrari Club.
Ferrari Design have certainly shown their ability to produce well balanced attractive machinery (LaF, the new California, the Speciale and the F12). So I don't think one can accuse the design department of bad taste. The SP dept has nothing to do with the Tailor Made programme so give Lapo a break! The real point here is that Ferrari is willing to execute a customers wish, even if it is not pleasing to the rest of us as a one off (thank goodness!) that we will probably never have to see again - and this in exchange for a SERIOUS amount of money! Can one blame them for accepting to do what would otherwise be done by a third party (cf P4/5)? I think not! If a customer came along and came up with a real beauty we would all be in admiration! Just a question of taste - or lack of it, and the proof that wealth is no guarantee of good taste!! In case we had forgotten!!
Now you say it, I start to see how in Japan that might look attractive. Still not my cup of sakè, though.
Very well said, glad someone as well-informed as yourselves finally joined the thread. A project like SP FFX is in the region of €2-3M, what do you think?
Probably that plus some. For as long as the customer is willing, the price..... The SP1 was the first such project and was based on a Fioravanti design also for a well known Japanese collector.
and anyone with a little bit of sense towards Ferrari's heritage would think twice before simply knocking down a Fioravanti design. This particular car might not be pretty, but it has some interesting designfeatures. And I personally prefer an outspoken ugly car over a bland and boring car. Like the California.
Coming up with something that will mean something 50 Years down the line isn't easy. Andrea told me that some things only happen every 10 years or so and if you get one in your life time you're very lucky... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Link seems broken? Try this one then: Ferrari SP FFX staat op de Tokyo Motorshow ...one can't buy taste!
I wasn't knocking the current Ferrari line up, apart from the 458 which I find hideous, the rest of the cars are fantastic. I was purely knocking the SPFXX, but you are right that if that's what the customer wants they should do it. True, but then why do it if all they can create is something hideous (apart to the owner, it seems). I do give it a lot of thought at times, what I would do if I had the chance to create a one of like your P4/5 for instance, and it's incredibly hard to think of something.
