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Ferrari 458 Italia: Comments on Design

June 5, 2018 By pete


By Wallace Wyss

This article originally appeared in VeloceToday August 6, 2009

The King is dead…long live the King. Wasn’t that what they always said in the old movies? Anyhow, the sneak shots of the Ferrari 458 Italia are out a couple of months before its official roll-out, at least enough photos to enable this design critic to form an opinion and submit it ever so humbly to the cognoscenti, i.e., you.

The Ferrari 458 Italia is a robust-looking car; to sum it up in one sentence: “it takes the bizarre out of the Enzo” yet saves enough of the old car to make an all-new shape that is reminiscent of the late Enzo but still its own design. Although it may replace the 430, the 458 might be considered an “Enzo light”.

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La Ferrari and Other Notables Critiqued

April 18, 2013 By Wally

Wallace Wyss likes to draw. Granted, he’ll never be a Picasso- and the good Lord knows the Editor will never be a Hemingway – so we both do what we can with what we have.

Over the past five years Wyss has sent us a variety of critiques of new designs out of Italy, and a few old ones as well. It’s a lot of fun and he makes some good points along the way.

His latest is below, the new La Ferrari (or whatever they will end up naming it). And below that, we’ve found a gathering of his previous critiques of Ferraris, Alfas, and even Rolls-Royce as they came to us. [Editor]
[Read more…] about La Ferrari and Other Notables Critiqued

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Design Critique: Ferrari 599 Before the Aperta

November 10, 2010 By Wally

599 GTB: Cleaner and more beautiful than the Vette. Photo Ferrari Media.

By Wallace A. Wyss
A commentary on the Ferrari 599 GTB , introduced in 2007, and its subsequent versions.

Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
When Ferrari sought to design a new front-engined car to replace the 575M Maranello, they wanted to have one that would be a comfortable grand tourer, and yet incorporate what they call “cutting edge downforce “figures, i.e. stay glued to the ground. Hence the long hood, sloping downward into a built in front spoiler. [Read more…] about Design Critique: Ferrari 599 Before the Aperta

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