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Eric Clapton and his one off Ferrari 458: The SP12 ec
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vicissitudes
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Looks pretty sick except I don't know what's going on in the front between the headlights.
Alligatorjandro
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That looks awesome
teruterubozu
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He did go down to the crossroads and got down on his knees....
The Bookerman
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It's supposed to be based on this:
SouthernDragon
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An actually beautiful car.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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That's my color. Very nice.
SunhiLegend
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Delicious
Salvor.Hardin
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So I'm not really a car enthusiast, but I just really do not dig this car. Am I alone on this?
Its a Ferrari & a custom one off means its an instant classic/collectable.
This car will be an investment, it'll gain in value over the years IMO.
Pagani have a custom Zonda, 760 RS for the un-named South American business man and F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, costing over $2.5M. These cars won't depreciate.
Video of what $2.5M dollars buys you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=beutB6R0Zqg
Meus Renaissance
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Two points.
1. That is one of the ugliest modern Ferrari's I've ever seen because of the two tone.
2. £3m on a car? Even if I had a trillion pounds, I couldn't ever morally justify that type of cost. I'd go straight to hell. How can anyone spend that kind of money on a car? I find it revolting
1. That is one of the ugliest modern Ferrari's I've ever seen because of the two tone.
2. £3m on a car? Even if I had a trillion pounds, I couldn't ever morally justify that type of cost. I'd go straight to hell. How can anyone spend that kind of money on a car? I find it revolting
I don't even like cars, but I think this is a real beauty.
Lagspike_exe
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Hideous looking. This is even worst than Mansory's attempts at Enzo homage by modding a 458.
Death Dealer
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2 Tone is an option on the newest Ferraris, although they don't paint them along the bottom edge, the second color option is for surround the cockpit glass.
Yeah that's exactly what I thought of. It's the old boxer style paint. Which makes sense since his 458 is customized with a 12 cylinder, although I don't think it's an actual boxer layout engine if it came from a 599 GTO or whatever.
I don't know about that picture. Is that a 365 or 512BB ? The three little vents behind the window don't look right. Maybe it's a body kit ?
Anyhow, I think Clapton has a gorgeous car and it was tastefully customized.
I've seen some truly hideous looking new Ferraris, where the owners must have been on drugs when they ordered them. They just had really weird clashing paint and interior colors.
maquiladora
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Sexual....
How is someone spending the money they earn on something they want revolting?
WTF, the car looks amazing
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Cost him 3 000 000 pounds.
This is nuts.
I kinda like it.
I love the marriage of classic ferrari style with new world design approaches.
WHile the BB is one of my least favorite Ferraris....it was an OK design, and i think the re-imagining is brilliant...maybe not 3million pounds worth of brilliant but brilliant nonetheless.
Id have much rather see Ferraris take on the GTO, i always liked its stance
And probably my favorite GTO feature is the upskirt shot of its gearbox:
I really want ferrari to do this again....upskirt shots are sexy as fuck
OpinionatedCyborg
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it's got braces
The thing is that something like this is so valuable, rare, etc that you will NEVER drive it. At all.
I don't understand the concept of buying an expensive supercar for the purpose of keeping it garaged.
(I went through a phase when I wanted a nice "exotic" on a budget but also reliable, ergonomicly confortable, with inexpensive parts. So I got a 1995 Acura NSX-T for $25k. I specifically searched for one that had already lost more value due to mileage because I didn't want to feel bad about DRIVING it and adding mileage myself. So much fun!)
I don't understand the concept of buying an expensive supercar for the purpose of keeping it garaged.
(I went through a phase when I wanted a nice "exotic" on a budget but also reliable, ergonomicly confortable, with inexpensive parts. So I got a 1995 Acura NSX-T for $25k. I specifically searched for one that had already lost more value due to mileage because I didn't want to feel bad about DRIVING it and adding mileage myself. So much fun!)
lol, nope. This wasn't something created by Ferrari, it was custom ordered by an outside individual. It has no real rarity. It's the same reason why buying a car, swapping a new downpipe, uppipe, getting a tune, and painting it your favorite color does nothing to increase the value; those things only mean something to the person who owned it previously. A car like the 250 GTO on the other hand holds value because of its limited run and prestige.
Death Dealer
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That is actually a very classic looking Ferrari paint scheme. It would be respected among enthusiasts as tasteful.
Also I think the metal grill is awesome. Much better than the plastic thing on a regular 458.
It looks like the front of a 328. It's in keeping with traditional Ferrari styling cues.
To anyone that thinks that car is so ugly, I question your taste. Maybe you just don't like Ferrari at all ?
To Far Away Times
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Beautiful car.
Spaceman Spiff
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It's certainly beautiful, but I'd take a "standard" 458 any day.
P4/5 by Pininfarina, road car and Competizione alike, is by far the best modern interpretation of classic Ferrari styling.
P4/5 by Pininfarina, road car and Competizione alike, is by far the best modern interpretation of classic Ferrari styling.
Death Dealer
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You're flat out wrong. Ferrari custom created it for Eric Clapton. Those mods are from the Ferrari Factory, it's not like he went to some custom shop and had them "pimp his ride". That's why it cost 3 million when a regular 458 is only like 300k or something.
I'm sure it's the only 458 Italia in the world with a V-12.
It's really laughable for you to compare this to some import tuner. It's a ridiculous analogy. I don't know if this car will actually appreciate in value above 3 million, but it's not like the mods added no value over a regular V-8 458. It's not a damn Evo X with a downpipe LOL
On the secondary market, Clapton's car would sell for several multiples of what a regular 458 would go for.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Actually it is build by ferrari, while ferrari are a consumer car manufacturer, if you have enough money and the right connections(usually to ferrari themselves) they will open their coach builder doors to you.
This is an instant classic simply because its one of a kind and not coachbuild by some no name company....its an authentic ferrari.
The next best thing to getting a car coachbuild by ferrari is getting a coachbuilt car from say Pininfarina to get official support from Ferrari:
Enter the P 4/5:
My thoughts exactly.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Close, but its actually based on the Ferrari BB, Eric C wanted a full reimagining of the "classic" Boxer, look a couple posts up and you'll see i posted the BBs front end....if you look at the back of the SP 12 and the BB they are like twins.
New:
Old:
Death Dealer
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Yeah I grasped that right away, as soon as I saw the boxer paint scheme.
The front grill looks like a 328's, but you're right, it's actually copying the 365/512BB which had them too.
The metal grill and cavallino rampante are just so classic looking.
I think the point is that instead of investing money he clearly doesn't need into something that will insignificantly increase his already materially stupendous life, he could use those resources otherwise, barely feel the hit and save literally thousands of lives.
I see a beautiful car I really want to drive, and I also see the waste.
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