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Written by Craig Jamieson
Ah, The Ferrari F50. As we said in our special TG Collector"s Edition Ferrari mag, "the F50"s years flying under the radar are now emphatically over." It really was something of a forgotten gem for about 20 years. And we really can"t figure out why. At the time, it was considered too ugly, too slow compared to the McLaren F1 (well, everything this side of an F14 Tomcat was) and not expensive enough to warrant the attention of the burgeoning one per cent. It was all well and good, in the Ace-of-Base-afflicted mindset of the early Nineties, for a car to be based on a world champion"s F1 car, but it certainly wasn"t enough to step out of the shade of Gordon Murray"s gilded (no, literally gilded), centre-seated, 241mph hypercar. As an aside, we wonder if the upcoming Mercedes-AMG Project One will experience the same lack of prestige in the face of something like the Bugatti Divo. Time, as always, will tell. Anywhos, it did take rather a long time for everyone to cotton on to how good of an idea it was to buy what was essentially a road-going version of Alain Prost"s Ferrari 641/2 with a bodykit that only an eight-year-old with unlimited access to Coco Pops could hope to replicate.
Date written: 3 Aug 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12789
Ah, The Ferrari F50. As we said in our special TG Collector"s Edition Ferrari mag, "the F50"s years flying under the radar are now emphatically over." It really was something of a forgotten gem for about 20 years. And we really can"t figure out why. At the time, it was considered too ugly, too slow compared to the McLaren F1 (well, everything this side of an F14 Tomcat was) and not expensive enough to warrant the attention of the burgeoning one per cent. It was all well and good, in the Ace-of-Base-afflicted mindset of the early Nineties, for a car to be based on a world champion"s F1 car, but it certainly wasn"t enough to step out of the shade of Gordon Murray"s gilded (no, literally gilded), centre-seated, 241mph hypercar. As an aside, we wonder if the upcoming Mercedes-AMG Project One will experience the same lack of prestige in the face of something like the Bugatti Divo. Time, as always, will tell. Anywhos, it did take rather a long time for everyone to cotton on to how good of an idea it was to buy what was essentially a road-going version of Alain Prost"s Ferrari 641/2 with a bodykit that only an eight-year-old with unlimited access to Coco Pops could hope to replicate.
Date written: 3 Aug 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12789
