Today’s want

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A Testarossa can be white or yellow if it's the single
Mirror version, to be fair a 512 TR should be black or red but that blue and orangey interior is a lovely combination.

In conclusion, lots of cars look good in lots of colours.

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Rich B wrote: Thu May 14, 2026 11:54 am
Jobbo wrote: Thu May 14, 2026 11:25 am
Rich B wrote: Thu May 14, 2026 11:22 am yep, black, red or yellow are probably my favourite for 80s ferraris. i associate these colours with the <1980s, whereas i associate metallic blue with the >1990s.
You know which year the 512TR was launched?
Totally, i’m not saying my rules are particularly well thought through! It just “colours i like” in the end!
I'm not going to pretend I'm geeky enough to know what year the 512TR was launched (so I looked it up, 1991) but I still think of it primarily a 1980s design, as it carries over most of the prominent styling elements from the Testarossa with a few updates to make it look a bit more modern.
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Like the F355 compared to the 348, then? 😜
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Some leaps in design evolution are bigger than others ;)
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Jobbo wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 6:53 am Like the F355 compared to the 348, then? 😜
Cutting it pleasingly fine with the definition of 80s there! 😀

“The Ferrari 348 made its global debut at the September 1989 Frankfurt Motor Show.”

I don’t like them in blue either though!
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I used to have a sales brochure for a Ferrari 348, my dad used to work in London doing underground cable jointing and just walked into the showroom in all his mucky work gear and asked for a brochure for his car mad kid :lol: think you’d be escorted from the premises these days
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I dunno... Ferrari Dealers know wealth whispers.

I was in the place down in Lyndhurst and there was a guy signing paperwork for 456 and his toe was poking out of his deck shoe, and his sock had a hole in it... :lol:
JLv3.0 wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:26 pm I say this rarely Dave, but listen to Dinny because he's right.
Rich B wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:57 pm but Dinny was right…
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Rich B wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 9:05 am
Jobbo wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 6:53 am Like the F355 compared to the 348, then? 😜
Cutting it pleasingly fine with the definition of 80s there! 😀

“The Ferrari 348 made its global debut at the September 1989 Frankfurt Motor Show.”

I don’t like them in blue either though!
I wasn’t referring to the date of them, though it still fits - it was the fact that the F355 was just a facelifted 348 but people consider it a different car, while the 512TR is considered just a facelifted Testarossa.
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I’m 100% sure I’ve seen a 355 in the same colour scheme as that 512 and it also looked amazing.
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