Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo - Jalopnik Comments

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Beelzebubba — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:55:28 EDT

Looks like a mini 599. That's unfortunate.

Beelzebubba

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

CharlzR — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:15:15 EDT

Yawn. Looks a lot like a Maranello to me.

CharlzR

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

FrankRizzo — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:20:31 EDT

@campionelancia:
In THEORY, it'll be smaller, less powerful, lower priced, and shaped more like the Maranello than the Modena.

The jury is still out on if it'll cost $6K-8K a year to maintain it a the dealer.

FrankRizzo

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

icantthinkofone — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:01:29 EDT

In other news:

Porsche fights back by running over their testing protoytpes in a cayenne.
The rivalry continues.....

but seriously go rennesport, whoo!

icantthinkofone

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

campionelancia — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:49:57 EDT

How is this marketably different from the F430 Spyder?

campionelancia

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Bumblebee — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:19:00 EDT

@Ben Wojdyla: Yeah. Well, you did, but it's gone now. The image appeared on top of the page, which was thrown into shadow. Where'd it go?

Bumblebee

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Novaload — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:16:44 EDT

I'm with the "Looks Like A Vette" group.
Seriously, if you saw this with no explanation or as a DOTS, what would you say?

Novaload

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

crab_man — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:08:51 EDT

i do believe thats the 599 spyder the dealers have been talking about....and not a "149" , lets not get carried away

crab_man

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

georgejetson — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:51:09 EDT

I'd say the overall shape reminds more of the 206/246 Dino than of anything recent, especially around the rear pillar. Interesting that they captured those proportions in a supposedly front-engined car.

georgejetson

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

FatBraff — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:41:57 EDT

@Bumblebee: Are you talking about the image preview spot, to the left of the comment box?

FatBraff

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

GTBruiser — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:41:53 EDT

@Bumblebee: "...uglier than my asshole" Love that line! Is that from where the term "ugly ass" comes? Can't wait to use it on my boss the next time he starts running at the mouth about his Prius on 22s. Ugh.

Oh, yeah, interesting Ferrari, too. Long overdue.

GTBruiser

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

FreeMan — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:41:27 EDT

@Bumblebee: They do?

Looks very 'vette like to me. I hope this doesn't come out with a heavy, trendy folding hard top. Make it a coupe or spyder, but not both.

FreeMan

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Unevolved: Whoop! — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:33:45 EDT

@Bumblebee: Must be like that time we had a new text box.

@Ben Wojdyla: I don't see it either. His computer's on meth. Again.

Unevolved: Whoop!

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

mikedrawcar — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:56:44 EDT

it's actually the new Focus. jokes on us.

mikedrawcar

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Ben Wojdyla — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:48:41 EDT

@Bumblebee: We do?

Ben Wojdyla

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

j6r — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:39:42 EDT

@Jon: I was just kidding since Ferrari owners seem to love big shields on the flanks of their cars. Except you have a point about them being a bit Corvette like.

j6r

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Bumblebee — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:23:27 EDT

Holy shit! Jalop has a new look-at-the-photos device! Nice!

Bumblebee

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Bumblebee — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:22:19 EDT

@drewdrawsYOU. Me? No...him.: That's what R&T was saying.

I sincerely hope this isn't flame-surfaced, though. Ferrari should be setting the design standard, not taking cues from elsewhere.

Also, flame surfacing is uglier than my asshole.

Bumblebee

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

AbulicRage — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:17:08 EDT

I'm guessing brake/tire vents for those openings beneath the lights?

@weatherman: That's just the So. Cal douche option.

AbulicRage

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Jon — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:15:50 EDT

@j6r: Good question.

I personally think it looks a bit Corvette-ish.

If I were a high-end car manufacturer, I'd dress up a 'Vette in heavy camo, and drive it around the 'Ring and other places, just to keep the masses attention away from my actual projects...

But I'm sneaky that way.

Jon

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

dculberson — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:09:23 EDT

@weatherman: That's the new theft protection system.

dculberson

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

FrankRizzo — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:07:59 EDT

As for the back, let's see. Hmm. I'm betting it'll have 2 sets of round tail lights. The inner-most set will have clear round circles in the middle for the back up lights.

It's the psychic car deducing power, you can thank me later.

FrankRizzo

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

reefer — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:00:33 EDT

Sexy... Ferrari, you can have my '92 Camaro and current DD, plus whatever is laying in my savings account... I'll take mine in white with black wheels please.

reefer

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Gerard Drewpardieu — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:58:55 EDT

Anyone else see a retractable hard-top in that roofline?

Gerard Drewpardieu

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Bentos, Der Frischmacher! — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:54:17 EDT

Oh, its a test mule...I thought they got one of the James Bond Astons running again

Bentos, Der Frischmacher!

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

cargogh — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:53:23 EDT

It French-Jaguar in the front. Think they can make it weigh less than a Z06? I thought the Flaming surfaced 1 series was smaller and going to be light. Yeah. Right.

cargogh

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

niterunner — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:47:47 EDT

@weatherman:
No, these are just design cues taken from BMW's Flame Surfacing.

niterunner

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

weatherman — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:45:24 EDT

It looks like it's been sideswiped and keyed. I hope the production version fixes those problems.

weatherman

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Ash78 — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:44:45 EDT

Who forgot to black out the lug bolts? Lazy bastards.

Ash78

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

j6r — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:42:16 EDT

How do we know it is a Ferrari if it doesn't have the Scuderia shields?

j6r

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Ben Wojdyla — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:35:08 EDT

@Lounatic: not camo-less, just without the crazy shooting brake camo from before.

Ben Wojdyla

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

TRAMS_AM — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:31:47 EDT

$33,000 with power windows?

TRAMS_AM

Ferrari F149 Dino California GT Thingamacar Caught Without Crazy Rear Camo

Lounatic — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:31:29 EDT

So we have a spy shot of the Californidino GTBi Quattrovalvole sans rear camo without a rear shot?

Lounatic