Ferrari builds a Lotus Evora!

Behold the Ferrari 458 MM Speciale:

A riff on the Lotus Evora if I've ever seen one:

They are both silver, with the same proportions as every super car ever built..

It's the air intake behind the door that does it.

Ya but the Ferrari looks better

What I really proves is that both aero software programs came to the same conclusion.

That looks fantastic. The Evora always strikes me as plain. Like the engine isn't the only thing it got from the Camry.

The Ferrari is m7ch better looking plus, since the 308, this is the way, more or less, that mid engine Ferraris work and look.

I'm sure it's an amazing car to drive, but the current crop of supercars just doesn't give me that George Takei "Oh my" feeling the way earlier cars did. I look at them and I'm just not in love.

Similar but not identical.

I saw the similarities immediately. The biggest offender has to be the blacked out A-pillar. Most of the other similarities I chalk up to packaging/aero requirements of a mid-engined exotic. It's a one-off built for a Brit though, so I can understand some Lotus cues. All I know, is I like to look at it.

If nothing else, it serves as a killer advertisement for what the company can do for you when you're ready to hand them a check for several million dollars.

Here is the deal as I see at this price-point. If I am driving a classic alloy bodied Ferrari, and I prang the thing into a wall, I just pull out the cell phone and tell Alberto to dust off the hammer and stump cause I need a new body to hang the serial number on. Probably cost me a few hundred grand to build up from the ashes.

With this carbon fiber creation, that wont happen; it would cost more to fix than it was worth to start with. Unless you are just polluted with wealth, that takes some of the fun out of driving the thing. (and yes...I know for a fact such people do exist and this is just sour grapes on my part)

You guys realize that particular Ferrari was customized by the factory to meet the desires of a specific customer, right? THe body mods were made to suit his (or her) taste, not something designed by an engineer to a performance spec. Maybe he really liked the Evora....

I do think the Ferrari looks better but there's no denying the similarity. In other photos I've seen it looks like a very metallic white, not actually silver, but it's hard to tell in photos. With the tricolare stripe I think it's a fantastic looking car, but I'm a fan of late model Ferraris anyway.

People always complain that all cars look the same these days and that there used to be more variety. This this little gem comes up.

^Wait, you don't mean to say that designers incorporate the trends that are popular at the time into their designs, do you?

I'm shocked! Aghast! Confused!

In reply to Adrian_Thompson:

At least it was easier to ID them from the hood ornaments.

I like the Ferrari a lot better. I see plenty of influence from the Enzo in it.

Nick (LUCAS) Comstock wrote:

That intake scoop harkens back to the 308gt4, just not as nicely located

meh....

I'll take one of these.....

There are definitely similar design cues, but the Ferrari looks better. That being said, I'm guessing that Ferrari wasn't able to fit 4 seats in it, like the Lotus.