Styling
I suspect filmmaker John Hughes was responsible for a few Ferrari sales in the late 1990s. His classic slice of slacker-cool, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, must have inspired a generation to make their fortunes on Wall Street so that they too could skive off in style.
The problem is, the car from the film - the Ferrari 250GT California - is one of the rarest ever built, and now commands multi-million dollar sums.
Thankfully, however, the name has been revived for a Ferrari that may hark back to the past but is all-new in intent and execution.
Ferrari and Pininfarina may have been entwined like teenagers snogging at a bus stop for decades now, but there’s no denying that the current design collaborations lack the elegance of old.
Ferraris have become singularly purposeful of late, and with their hard lines and proliferation of scoops, it’s hard to call them beautiful.
The California has tried to address this with a more curvaceous approach, and traditional long bonnet, short cabin proportions.
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