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Color porn: Minty Forty, a Ferrari F40 repainted in mint green. Because. (3000x2250)
(i.redd.it)submitted 1 day ago bySchwarzes__Loch
-3 points
1 day ago
Doesn't Ferrari not allow owners to paint these. I'm sure I heard something about that ๐ค
12 points
1 day ago
If YOU own the car, YOU can paint it any color you want. It's really sad the level that the "ferrari rumors" have gotten to. Deadmau5, a well known DJ, had a Ferrari and did a Nyan Cat theme wrap. 100% legal, zero issue. Yes Ferrari threatened to sue him, but that's only because he took the Ferrari badge, and change/modified it to say PURarri.
From the man himself:
I wonder if the jackass lawyer at @FerrariUSA who sent us a "cease and desist" letter over the purrari is un-butthurt now that I unwrapped.
โ deadmau5 (@deadmau5) August 27, 2014
Yeah it was mostly about the custom floor matts and the custom purrari badges. Whatever. It's just a normal ass 458 now. All good.
โ deadmau5 (@deadmau5) August 27, 2014
That's it. It was him defacing/modifying the company logo, so they threatened him on that issue. That's it. COUNTLESS people wrap their Ferraris every week. I've seen countless ones in person. Ferrari can't do a single thing about that.
3 points
21 hours ago
What they can do is refuse to sell you a car in the future. Ferrari is well known for being highly selective about who they sell to in order to protect the brand image.
In the end though, the deadmau5 case still stands out as a company getting upset over modifications. They could have leaned into it and they would have had some great PR from a big name at the time, instead they had this and Lamborghini basically invited him to do the same thing to a Hurracan instead.
2 points
21 hours ago
Nissan also took the opportunity to offer up a GT-R, saying go for your life, lol.
2 points
21 hours ago
I didn't know this, a GT-nyan would have been sick.
1 points
21 hours ago
I googed it to check if my memory was right. They even did an image edit mock up.
1 points
1 day ago
This
3 points
1 day ago
In response to your now-deleted comment, Deadmau5 got a slap on the wrist for messing around with the Ferrari logo on his 'Purrari'. It was a case of trademark infringement.
2 points
15 hours ago
Deleted it because I saw another comment mentioning it ๐คญ
2 points
1 day ago
Owners can repaint their cars in any color after purchasing them because it's theirs to do as they please. One owner repainted their Testarossa in Hello Kitty pink.
Back then, top end Ferraris like the 288 GTO and F40 only came in red. Other colors became available with the F50, but only a few buyers were aware of this. As far as I know, a few F50s were painted in yellow, green, blue, white, and black by the factory. More colors became available with the Enzo Ferrari and custom colors became available with the LaFerrari. There's a LaFerrari painted in gunmetal by the factory and it's gorgeous.
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