In Pictures – 2018 Ferrari PORTOFINO Society Debut
From Ferrari’s lavish Portofino gala featuring Giancarlo Fisichella, Piero Ferrari, Sebastian Vettel and Sergio Marchionne. 2018 Ferrari PORTOFINO
Sebastian Vettel
MANIFESTO Wins Ferrari Top Design Challenge 2015
Ferrari crowned the winner of its latest Top Design Challenge recently… and it is not the one you would think! Nor the one with the most votes online. Â The popular vote went to deEsfera, but the unanimous jury selection — MANIFESTO — came in fourth online. MANIFESTO by ISD-RUBIKA out of France was the absolute winner of the challenge. Â The judges loved its fully-developed powertrain, cabin packaging and innovative inside-out appearance for the floating rear canopy. Â This giant space between the rear wheels and the inner chassis/engine compartment appears to have been the defining design element adored by …
Ferrari Design Challenge 2015 – Vote Your Future Hypercar Style!
Ferrari has been crowd-sourcing design ideas and talent since at least 2005 — with many of the ideas for the eventual LaFerrari sharing at least something with the design-student scale models and renders. This was after Ferrari pulled the marquee hypercar design contract back in-house from Pininfarina. ‘Crowd-sourcing’ is not really a fair description of this Design Challenge effort, though. Why? These entries are not ‘loser-generated-content’ from the public — but near-finished and highly thought-through prototypes. So more of a creative shootout than simply hive-mind idea cultivation. For the 2015 contest, Ferrari switched the script in a few ways. Ferrari …