What's wrong with that comment? He clearly thought it looked like the Lexus Viper everyone's been raving about. It's got a V10 engine with 505 hp and 17 cup holders. Seriously though, he went from one of the most highly regarded luxury cars to one of the most aggressive angry cars there is. What a tard.

 

this thread rules!

 

I'm getting a Lexus Viper next year !

 

I wouldn't doubt that one bit. At the autoshow I was standing around one with my boyfriend and about four men were talking about it and wondering how come "that Ferrari" wasn't with the "other Ferrari" out front. The guy with him told him it was because it was a Mazda. The other three men didn't really think so until pointed out that it said Mazda on the back end. Then the first man said Ferrari must have designed it for them, then, because it looks just like them!! LOL

 

I am wracking my brains trying to think just what ferrari does the 8 even remotely look like and am drawing a complete blank...

 

this one

 

its not the first time that the italians have have used Mazda for inspiration

ferrari 410




cosmo

 

I mean, same difference, right?

 

wait....wait...so FERRARI doesnt make the RX8?! OMG! what did i BUY?!

 

Drive thru people are the best! I go to the same Jack in the Box down the street from my house, and everytime! i mean EVERYTIME I leave soo happy. One time the guy came out of the window and looked at me and did the DOUBLE LOOK...and was like "wow...ive always wanted that LEXUS. lol! and then he calls his friend workers over to see...all their jaws dropped. lol. I didnt even want to correct them...haha

I love my Lexus rx-8!

 

Over here, it's either an Infiniti or a Porsche...

 

That's what I was thinking, all kinds of models in the 20's, 30's and 40's.

 

Ok, I can see the similarities in this one (also hints of a c6 and a skyline), but I have no idea what model this is. Never seen it in a model line up.

 

In fact, it must be a concept cause there are no production models with LED headlights.

 

i know wut im trading the 8 in for...

 

I was sitting in a cafe shop and overheard 2 guys(who works there) talking about my rx8 in the parking lot. They said it resembles alot like a scion tc and its really slow. So both of them step out to look at my car. As soon as they walked out there I set the alarm off! Btw there was only 3 people in the cafe so they knew it was of us..

 

haha what was there reacton?

 

Gotta love that panic button!!!!

 

Long nose, short tail, fairly agressive look. Not just Ferrari, but just about every classic sports car follows that general design.

Goto autoweek.com and check out the Ferrari 599. You'll see how somone can confuse a mazda with a ferrari (and I, at a distance, will tend to confuse a Jaguar E-Type with a Ferrari 365 GTB.. ehh.)

Gotta have long hood short tail.

 

Will take slight umbrage at that.. the 410's a descendant of the Pinin Farina-designed 250's from the 50's.. a look which just about everyone copied copiously.

Another was the GTO (Scaglietti made that one.) The 240z was a blatant rip, and a damn nice one at that. Just about every fastback 2-seater ows its look in part to that GTO.

The MIata had, from the side, a slight 365 GTB look to it. Miata lore says they really wanted to knock off the NART Spyder, but US headlight regs would not allow for open, recessed headlights.. hence the barndoors (to meet that old, insane headlight height requirement.)

 

They just walked back in, kinda smile (feeling embarassed) and went back to work.

 

As for suicide doors, horse buggies had those in the days of Mozart (1700's) and perhaps even before. Most early cars did have suicide doors, including the el-cheapo-everyone-had-one Model A Ford..

But I think my favorite suicide-door car was the '64 Lincoln.. the really big one. Forgot its name... the one in Animal House.

 

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't Ford have a cooperation deal with Fiat, who has a controlling interest in Ferrari?

They're like third cousins!!! LOL

 

'twas GM, actually.. and I think they quietly got rid of it last Q 2005. Fiat is bleeding far worse than Ford or GM is (to the tune of 500b a year, I heared.. owie.)

So, when GM dumped FIAT, Ferrari had to "sell" Maserati back to Fiat, but will still 'help' Maserati climb out of the smoking hole it made in the 70's and 80's and 90's...

But Fiat owns Ferrari, so.. I never did understand the fiat / ferrari / maserati marriage..sounds suspiciously like a West Virginia arrangement

 

I was just reading something recently about Fiat was planning to list Ferrari in 2006 but decided not to, and somewhere further down in the article it was listing something about "cooperation" deals with Ford, a European company and other people. I'll look for the article and post a link. I don't reall reading about GM in it but I'll double check. I think Alfa Romeo is also part of the Fiat group, too.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/news...AT-FERRARI.xml

Found it!!!