GTP Cool Wall: 2011+ Ferrari FF

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2011+ Ferrari FF

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A car with a 4 wheel drive system which is overcomplicated and not properly 4WD plus a mainstay of footballers driveways and kinda ugly, no thanks.
 
CLowndes888
Jaguar XF-R wagon
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What job does it do better exactly, cause the Ferrari is still more powerful, has a more sensible drive train setup and is built pretty well from what I've seen and read. The only thing the Jaguar has over it is price...
 
Actually, I'm watching the NG Megafactories episode on it right now and I have to call BS on something. This guy's talking, saying he'd like to start with the engine because it's the most important part of the car, and I beg to differ--without tires, the engine just consumes and offers nothing in return. An airliner without wings is a beached metal whale.
 
JMoney
I really don't see the point. Why isn't it a sedan?
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The exotic sedan role is filled by Maserati.

If you're talking about an ordinary station-wagon, this isn't meant to be that. It's basically an F12 with some more storage space, and AWD.

JMoney
Why make a successor to a failure?
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So they can not mess it up the second time.
 
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The 612 wasn't even a failure as far as comfortable, 2+2 grand tourers go. Unless you're basing said failure solely on how much you dislike its size or lack of aesthetic qualities? Even then I think it looks fine with the right paint job.

Nowhere near as dramatic as the FF, mind. But it does have an understated charm much like the 456 before it that I can appreciate.
 
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It's cool cause it's practical. It's uncool because it looks like a fat Z3 coupe. It's cool because I kind of like the Z3 coupe. It's cool because of interesting AWD system. Balances out to meh. It's certainly an interesting vehicle. Not sure how good the car looks in the flesh, cause I've never seen one. My dad has apparently seen one though. He showed me a picture of what he thought he saw. It wasn't a Z3 coupe.
 
Ugly behemoth of a car... with all the usual Ferrari baggage.

SU
 
Liquid
Gliscor looks immense in the flesh. Pictures don't do this car justice.

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It will never be the same to me.

A shame because this is actually my favourite Ferrari, and with it one of my all time favourites. Admittedly though, there are some silly image problems which I dearly wish it and its ilk didn't have. So just a cool.
 
JMoney
I really don't see the point. Why isn't it a sedan? It's a car that really shouldn't exist. The 612 was widely unpopular because it was long, ugly, and too heavy by Ferrari's standards. Why make a successor to a failure? They didn't succeed the Mondial.

Oh, look! They made a car that's even heavier, even longer, and even uglier!

Uncool. Saved from SU by the V12.
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The 612 was a Ferrari built for a niche market, the same niche market that bought the 456, the same niche market that buys the FF. It sold well for what it was; 3025 units. And like the FF, the 612 found great success amongst its owners. It's just people like you who looked at it once & judged it by its stat sheet who deemed it a "failure".
 
On one hand, it's a 4wd Ferrari shooting brake.

On the other hand, it's a 4wd Ferrari shooting brake.

I reckon I should rate it quite highly, but it weirds me out so much I'm afraid I can't go above "meh".
 
Ungainly in the flesh. Ferrari made the same mistake as Porsche did with the 1st gen Cayenne - trying to add 911 styling clues to an SUV. It just never looks right.
 
Seriously uncool because 1880kg, brought up to Uncool by being unusual and a bit provocative for it.

Also, modern Ferraris are never cool.
 
Love the styling, brings forward cues from the Scaglietti, which I probably prefer, nevertheless it scrapes an SZ from me. Practicality in a Ferrari, who knew. BTW "brake" does indeed refer to a carriage, not a weekend "break" in the country, or breaking in a horse.
 
JMoney
I really don't see the point.
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The 612 was a Ferrari built for a niche market, the same niche market that bought the 456, the same niche market that buys the FF. It sold well for what it was; 3025 units. And like the FF, the 612 found great success amongst its owners. It's just people like you who looked at it once & judged it by its stat sheet who deemed it a "failure".
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It amazes me how little credence people give to the marketing departments of huge supercar companies in cut throat markets. As if Ferrari just decided to take a bath for millions of dollars building a "useless" car.

JMoney
Why isn't it a sedan?
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Because sedans are lame. Ferrari is the supercar brand, a 2 door shooting brake, especially one that's as sleek as an FF is not even close to the image of a sedan. Ferrari competes with McLaren and Lamborghini, the risk of building an FF sedan is that suddenly your brand isn't as prestigious anymore and you lose sales because a Huracan isn't associated with sedans, while a 488 is. This is why Fiat owns Maserati, so they can get involved in the high end sedan market without tarnishing Ferrari's brand.
 
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There's one in my neighbourhood. Black, with dark bronze five spokes. Even with the paint hiding some of the heavy-handed detailing, it's awful. It's a graceless hunk of aluminum. An overly-complicated 4WD system makes it less cool: I can just picture an over-excited owner trying to explain it to the precisely zero people who would care. It's also a modern Ferrari: never cool.

Is it practical? Sure, for a prancing horse. But I'd rather get a 458 and a lightly used Rangie instead.
 
Ferrari. Shooting brake. 651HP. Mid - cool.

But, the front end ugliness thing going on there brings it down to a low cool.
 

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