When Ferrari Actually Built Works of Art

[00:01] that looks like a Nissan Leaf went through therapy and came out Italian and literally cannot talk about it. Instead, we're going to talk about the most beautiful Ferraris ever made because somebody at Maranello needs a reminder

[00:16] of what they're capable of. Like, subscribe and let's go. Okay, and quick housekeeping. Real quick, I'm Brad. This is Ideal. We talk about cars. We argue about cars and occasionally we weep about cars. Hit the subscribe or YouTube

[00:28] will exclusively recommend you tractor compilations for the next 3 months. This is a threat and also somehow true. All right, Ferrari. Nearly eight decades of building machines so gorgeous that grown adults have cried in parking lots just

[00:42] from seeing one in person. I know a guy. It was me. We're not talking about the about the most expensive ones. We're talking about the ones that make your brain stop working just by existing. The most beautiful Ferraris ever made. Let's

[00:56] start with something that proves Ferrari hasn't completely lost the plot yet. The Roma. Yes, the Roma is what happens when the design team at Maranello walks into work one morning and collectively decides to just not overthink it. No

[01:10] massive aero fins, no angry air intakes the size of a small child, just clean lines. A face that looks alive and slightly dangerous and proportions so good it almost seems unfair to every other car in the parking lot. Twin turbo

[01:23] designed by someone who actually had experienced joy. Ferrari replaced it with the Alfieri which is fine, but the Roma is still the better looking car and I will say that at full volume in any room. Now, the Ferrari F50. Here's a car

[01:39] that doesn't get nearly enough credit in the beauty conversation and that is criminal. Everyone talks about the F40 and we'll get there, but the F50 is what took everything we learned from Formula 1 and just bolted it into a road car?"

[01:53] The answer was a naturally aspirated V12 derived directly from a 1990 Ferrari F1 car and a carbon fiber tub for its chassis and a body that looks like it was sculpted in a wind tunnel by someone who just happened to be a Renaissance

[02:07] painter. No turbo lag, no hybrid assist, just 520 horses screaming at you from directly behind your skull while you're trying to remember how to breathe. People slept on the F50 when it came out because it had the audacity to follow

[02:19] the F40, which is like getting booed for being the second best guitarist who ever lived. The F50 is stunning. The proportions are perfect. The way it sits low and wide with those integrated rollover hoops and the open cockpit

[02:31] its road car license and immediately started showing off. It is a masterpiece accordingly. And yes, before you type it, the F50 is better looking than the F40. There, I said it. Come on, get me in the comments. Now, let's go back

[02:46] further, the Ferrari Dino. Not technically a Ferrari, Enzo sold it under a separate brand as a tribute to his son Alfredo. Yeah, not Yeah, not the spaghetti. Who died of a kidney condition in his 20s. It had a V6

[02:59] instead of a V12, which in Ferrari terms is basically hearsay. And it was positioned as the entry-level car for people who could almost afford a like the most elegant thing on four wheels. Low, wide, mid-engine with these

[03:14] modern sports car look like it's trying too hard by comparison. The Dino just is beautiful. It doesn't need to prove anything. It doesn't have a giant wing or a bunch of vents or 17 different driving modes. It just sits there and

[03:28] looks perfect and makes you feel inadequate for driving whatever you drove here today. Its DNA is in the Alpine A110. It's in the Ferrari 296 GTB. It's basically the ancestor of every pretty mid-engine sports car in

[03:41] the last 40 years. The Dino deserves a statue, several statues. Now, we're going full 80s, the Ferrari Testarossa. You see, the The is not subtle. The Testarossa does not want to be subtle. The Testarossa ate

[03:55] down with a flat-12 engine and a five-speed gated manual. Those side skirts, those wide aggressive hips, the sheer width of this thing. It's 77 in across, which is wider than some studio apartments in Los Angeles. It starred in

[04:09] Out Run, which was the first video game where you got to drive a Ferrari at 200 mph and crash it into a palm tree with absolutely no consequences. Michael Jordan drove one to Bulls games. Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player

[04:21] who has ever lived, chose this car as his. And if that's not a cosign, I don't know if I know what one looks like. What's a cosign? Flat-12 five-speed gated manual mid-mounted. It sounds like the ocean if the ocean was angry and

[04:34] Italian. The Testarossa is an '80s icon in the same conversation as Top Gun and shoulder pads. And unlike shoulder pads, it aged perfectly. Hey guys, real quick, the giveaway for the Shelby and Supra and the $100,000 has ended. And well,

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[05:14] Daytona because Ferrari went 1-2-3 at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1967 and the fans just started calling it that and nobody ever stopped. Here's what I love an American muscle car. They never tried, but the Daytona is the closest

[05:27] any Italian automaker has ever come to capturing that same energy. The long hood, the front engine, the aggressive two-seat stance, the sense that this car would very much like to fight you. It came in coupe and convertible, V12

[05:40] obviously, and it looks so good that Ferrari [music] basically resurrected the silhouette 50 years later with the 12 Cilindri, which we'll get into. Imitation is flattery and in this case the imitation is also gorgeous, but

[05:53] happens when Italy and America have a design conversation and nobody blinks first. The result is perfect. Now, [snorts] the Ferrari F40. The F40 was the last car Enzo Ferrari personally signed off before he died, the last one,

[06:07] his final yes. And he looked at this twin-turbo, Kevlar-bodied, wing-having, zero-driving-aid-having monster and said, "That's it. That's the one." The man who built Ferrari from the ground up, who won at Le Mans, who went to war

[06:21] with Ford, his final creative act was approving this car. That's the most Ferrari thing that has ever happened. I'm looking at you, Luje. No traction control, no ABS, no backup camera, no drive mode selector, just you, a

[06:34] turbocharged V8, and whatever's left of your courage. Some people in 1988 said it wasn't as technically sophisticated as the Porsche 959, and I genuinely respect their right to be completely and totally wrong about that. The F40 is not

[06:47] supposed to be sophisticated. The F40 is supposed to make you feel mortal. The Ferrari 288 GTO is the F40's quieter, cooler, older brother, the one that he's already the most interesting person in the room. Simple wedge shape, pop-up

[07:02] not screaming at you, and a rear three-quarter angle so clean it would currently break the internet if Ferrari tried to revive it, which they should. The 288 GTO is the least try-hard hypercar Ferrari ever made, and that

[07:18] restraint is exactly what makes it timeless. Sometimes knowing what not to add is the hardest design decision of all. Ferrari used to know this, file that away. The 458 Italia is the car that lives rent-free in the head of

[07:31] every car enthusiast who has ever lived between 2009 and today. If you surveyed which Ferrari they'd want in their garage, a huge chunk of them are landing garage, a huge chunk of them are landing on some version of the 458 and fast. And

[07:44] they would be correct. Naturally aspirated V8 Naturally aspirated V8, which actually is pretty reliable. Having to the moon sounds like a choir of very fast angels. Visually cleaner than everything Ferrari has made since.

[07:57] Way prettier than the F430 it replaced. Sorry F430 guys, it just is. The 458 Speciale came along later with more fins, more aero, more drama, and became an internet legend in its own right. But a plain, simple Rosso Corsa 458 Italia

[08:13] of the high water marks in the history of automotive design. Ferrari set the bar here, then spent the next decade slowly walking away from it. The Ferrari F50 Maranello is what 90s cool actually looks like. It's not the neon kind, not

[08:27] the grunge kind, the quiet confident I own a V12 and I don't need to tell you about it kind. Simple proportions, not trying to impress you. Just a 5.5 L V12 in the front, a 6-speed manual, and enough presence to make everything

[08:40] around it look nervous. It's the only Ferrari I can think of that looks better in silver than red, which is either hearsay or the highest compliment that you can pay a design, and I genuinely can't decide which. It jumped a Miami

[08:52] bridge in Bad Boys 2 and look cooler than Will Smith doing it. That's the bar. And finally, the Ferrari 12 Cilindri. Yes, the new one. The one that one person in Maranello still has

[09:06] functioning eyes and taste buds. It's basically a love letter to the Daytona. Long hood, tiny deck, a black light bar between the headlights that winks directly at its ancestor from 50 years ago. Naturally aspirated V12 this year.

[09:19] Do you know how insane that is? That's like showing up to a vegan restaurant everyone in the room slowly starts applauding. The 12 Cilindri is a isn't done yet, and it makes that statement beautifully. It gives me hope.

[09:34] And then I remember what they just revealed as the EV and all the hope just goes away. But, listen, Ferrari has built some of the most beautiful objects ever created by human hands. The Dino, the Daytona, the F40, the F50, the 458,

[09:48] the Roma. These aren't just cars, you guys. These are the reason this hobby exists. Just I have lint in my pocket, so I can't afford any of them. And these poster on their wall and decide that one day, somehow, they're going to make it.

[10:03] Ferrari built that feeling for 79 years. Here's hoping for whoever is in charge of the crayon box finds their way back to it. I'm Brad. This is Ideal. Smash button, and let me know which Ferrari is your favorite in the comments. I can't

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