Friday, January 22, 2010 |
23:14 - Oh I see what you did there
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Okay, I think I get what the deal is with this thing on the Ferrari 458 Italia that has been bugging me for a while now:
Why this graceless upsweep of the shoulder edge, the haphazard crashing together of two lines into a sharp and unmoored point where previous Ferraris had a gorgeous and iconic quarter-window shape that defined the whole bloodline since the 308?
It's because they're trying to imitate this:
Yeah. C'mon, guys, Family resemblance is a nice thing to have. But it's not worth it if in order to achieve it you have to go emulating the lines of a power retractable hardtop.
Those things almost never look good. You always get these pointy corners and clumsy fussy curves, neither of which belong on a Ferrari. You're not about to go replicating the unavoidable loose panel gaps too, are you? Didn't think so.
Okay, I'll shut up now.
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