Who says the Italians don't steal good German designs?? The 2010 Ferrari 420 Dino...

Paul

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I'd buy it

It looks a little Lotus-like up front to me. I'd buy it too!

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Cayman S – A Six Cylinder Symphony

Take a look at the article: http://forums.finalgear.com/showthread.php?p=363942

Very Cayman-like. I'd buy it too.

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Mike
2006 Midnight Blue Cayman S

It looks like they also steal promotional photographs. The red Cayman S by the water was released last year and the Ferrari Dino seems to have been photoshopped into the Cayman picture. When I first saw the article in Winding Road my initial reaction was how much the baby Ferrari coupe looks like the baby Porsche coupe. I didn’t realize the photo was the same until this thread.

Alan

The same thought crossed my mind when I saw the pic. Maybe this is Winding Road taking "artistic license" with things...I dunno.

But the car does look nice, no Cayman mind you, but nice...

I love the overall flow of the Cayman design better, but the Dino design makes me wish the front of the Cayman was more agressive, perhaps with a larger middle intake grill instead of a plastic indentation for the manual cars.

I might consider it if the list is under $50,000 like the basic Cayman

Look at the reflections on the rear quarter panels. They look identical to me. Check the location of the rocks (or are they ducks in the water?) by the passenger A pillar and again they appear identical. The more I look the more I think we are looking not at a Ferrari but a Corvette front end morphed onto a Cayman body. Too bad, it would have been nice to have a car that looked like a new Ferrari for 1/3 the price.

Alan

If that's the car and it has a folding metal top I'd buy it at under $150K before I bought a 997TT. It is a Ferrari after all.........

Although there were a lot of rumors about a new Dino from Ferrari, General Manager Amedeo Felisa vanished all our hopes about it. He said that Ferrari has no plans for a "cheaper" Ferrari.

Ferrari will do what they have done since now: "compete in its current markets and that would only be highly-exclusive sports cars and no high-volume and modestly-priced sports cars."

So, no new model from Ferrari in the next 18 months. A new 599 it is expected in 3 years and the Ferrari F430 CS will debut in 2008. But no Dino!
On the other hand last time we spoke with someone from Ferrari they said the same thing, but their denial didn’t sound that strong. And how Aston Martin, for example, is getting cheaper every year, a cheap Dino in the house will be good just in case.

But then again, with the Ferrari’s history, we all know that Ferrari is about expensive cars and how Ferrari knows that their cars are bougth by rich people I don’t think they will be affraid of loosing clients and a cheaper Aston Martin is not a threat for their market.
But who knows? Time will tell!

It does have the 911 turbo wheels. If it is real I want one.