Friday, May 9, 2008
Ferrari Testarossa Concepts!
As fans, we're comfortable looking inside Ferrari's all-star pantheon: The Enzo a monstrosity, yes, but it's family rubs shoulders with the F50. The pugnacious Testarossa and the subtle Dino punctuates a Ferrari red line that stretches back to the sublime, the quintessential, the damn-near aesthetically and mechanically perfect 250 GTO. Yet here, crammed inside Ferrari's Park Avenue showroom, are 20 new, wild and daring sculptures. Some are retro, almost art deco in form, with broad-shouldered curves and imposing fascia; others are pure fantasy, paying no heed to the imaginable limits of aerodynamic design. But somehow they're familiar call them variations on the theme of Enzo. In their own, sometimes subtle ways, they are all Ferraris.