Talk:Ferrari/Archive 2

Alonso
i have changed "will be" to "has" regarding Alonso driving for Ferrari F1 in 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.46.100 (talk) 13:17, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Ferrari wallpapers
Hi, I'd like to ad some external links to some Ferrari wallpapers hosted on my site at http://www.cartitans.com/Ferrari/index.php

Does this comply with Wiki codes?

Thanks,

Michael CarTitans 13:49, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

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What's the meaning of S.p.A.?

S.p.A. in italian means "Società per Azioni" which is a society that rapresents the partecipation of its owners through stocks. I'd need somebody to make this better though. --Gino

I removed the part about "Sugar Daddy" because I felt it was too informal, and anyhow not really true. I think that the quintessential "Sugar Daddy" car is the Pontiac Trans-Am or perhaps the Chevrolet Corvette. Ferrari's are too rare.

I own a Ferrari, a 1979 Ferrari 308. It is the worst car I have ever owned. It is the most beautiful car ever made.

--Jimbo Wales

Hi Jimbo I'm feel happy not to have win your car. Ericd 20:43 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)
 * "most beautiful car ever made."? That is so not NPOV. ;) And wrong. =] The 246 is.  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  20:13, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

"The rampant horse however does not identify the Ferrari brand only: Fabio Taglioni's Ducati too had it on its motorbikes. Taglioni's father was in fact a companion of Baracca's, and fought in his famous squad, the 91st Air Squad - renamed SPAD (Société Pour Aviation et ses Dérives) - but when Ferrari became famous and the early legend started to accompany it, Ducati abandoned the horse, some suggest because of a private agreement between the two brands."

ERROR: Not sure where this would go but the pricing for the Enzo is inaccurate. It was offered at $695,000 not $1.8 million dollars. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.88.148 (talk) 15:04, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Squad/SPAD same thing isn't it ?

Seriously SPAD was a French company manufacturing fighters. One of the shareholders was Blèriot. They sold planes to the Italians and the US and maybe others. Baracca flew a SPAD. Ericd 20:50 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)

"91st Air Squad"? 91st Aviation Squadron, don't you mean? (In Italian...) Trekphiler 00:40, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Edit request from MaqDiesel, 13 May 2011
Enzo Ferrari did intend on building street legal cars that could be used in racing along with street driving.

MaqDiesel (talk) 05:56, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. Stickee (talk)  09:58, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Good afternoon, I am a Ferrari fan and concerning this page I would like to add something in the "related links" section, so that surfers visiting this page could learn something else about Ferrari and have more infos about it.

The links I would like to add are: Ferrari official website http://www.ferrari.com/English/Pages/Home.aspx Ferrari Current range http://www.ferrari.com/English/GT_Sport%20Cars/CurrentRange/Pages/Current_Range.aspx Formula1 Channel http://www.ferrari.com/English/Formula1/Pages/Home.aspx Corse Clienti section http://www.ferrari.com/English/Scuderia/Pages/Home.aspx Ferrari museum http://www.ferrari.com/English/about_ferrari/Ferrari-Museum/Pages/Home-Museo.aspx Thanks in advance ~ ~ ~ 15:33, 30 May 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ferrari passion (talk • contribs)

The proper meaning of SEFAC
I recently stumbled across the SEFAC abbreviation again, and was curious about its meaning.

Firstly, I read on this page that it supposedly stands for 'Scuderia Enzo Ferrari Auto Corse', and elsewhere I've found an alternative 'Scuderia Enzo Ferrari Automobili Corse', but apparently both are incorrect.

On the transcendent Autosport.com Nostalgia Forum, I saw a scan/picture of an old Ferrari document, which has 'SEFAC' as well as "Societa' per azioni Esercizio Fabbriche Automobili e Corse" [intermediate capitals added] as its meaning.

Googling this exact phrase, shows a bunch of trademark and patent sites, proving that this name is indeed a Ferrari trademark — to my untrained eye, that is.

Does this warrant change the SEFAC bit on this page?

Lustigson (talk) 14:37, 13 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, without knowing what doc that is & its provenance, probably not. It means there's info SEFAC's meaning on the page is wrong & needs more research, in hope somebody can source the scanned doc.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  16:17, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

The most expensive in the history of Ferrari
Croatian writer Giancarlo Kravar: At auction in Monaco Ferrari 625 TRC Spider in 1957. year, which is produced in only two copies and is considered one of the best ever by the Italian factory in Maranello made​​, sold for 5.04 million euros. The buyer is unknown.93.137.33.90 (talk) 22:53, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * You seem to quote this writer a lot. Assuming this information belongs in the article (I don't think it does), do you have a reference from  a reliable, published source for this information? 72Dino (talk) 23:15, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

The 400's years of production?
Article for the Ferrari 400 states 1976 to 1989. What exactly is this model, then? The sign in front of it says Ferrari 400 Superamerica.
 * https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/456509_305099076236824_1758750239_o.jpg Anyone have any idea? Pininfarina did the coachwork. --RThompson82 (talk) 07:01, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Controversy
Due to being one of those special brands with fans (like Apple) I expect to get shot down but I honestly do think it's potentially relevant since a lot of pages do contain controversy sections and we are to be bold. I'm talking about this article http://jalopnik.com/5760248/how-ferrari-spins He is one of the most respected car journalists as far as I can tell. To save anyone clicking and having to read for a summary, it contains accusations that Ferrari are over protective of their cars when it comes to interacting with journalists going as far as saying they cheat i.e. press cars are tuned much higher than the ones you might actually receive when bought. Chrisjwowen (talk) 22:36, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Info box
WHy does the info box not list Fiat as the parent of Ferrari? 108.172.115.8 (talk) 01:09, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It does. Not sure why you can't see it. --Falcadore (talk) 03:01, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

This article... bothers me
Is it just me, or does this article read like it was written by a 12 year old? Something about its tone of voice is definitely off and it seems out of place when compared to the rest of Wikipedia (It also uses parentheses like this a lot and used the word "though" a little too often, which comes off as unprofessional to me). There's only two citations in the entire article too, what gives?

--72.207.253.76 (talk) 15:11, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The article is not semi-protected, you can WP:REWRITE it if you want to. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it!  See terms and conditions.  18:41, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Supercars
Aren't all Ferraris supercars ? The article says "the companies' loftiest efforts" which would refer to Enzo, Laferrari etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Automobililamborghini (talk • contribs) 20:38, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Concept car section
the concept car section is severely out of date and is incoherent.Michaeljuan (talk) 02:52, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Then fix it. --Falcadore (talk) 17:34, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Prancing Horse and my photograph of one at a Pop Up Store in Madrid, 2014


‎Ferrari Pop Up Stores: In June of 2010 in New York City, a Ferrari Store Opened On Park Avenue with a massive collection of Ferrari-branded clothing and accessories in addition to its cars.) (undo) [automatically accepted]|

' ' i am just contesting that it was deleted and think there should be a part in wiki for the Ferrari Pop Up Store.

' ' everything was deleted, (Reverted 4 edits by David Adam Kess: Rv promotional material that has nothing to do with Ferrari as such; if you want to add it take it to the talk page and get consensus for it first.)

(cur | prev) 16:52, 6 August 2014‎ Thomas.W (talk | contribs)‎. . (40,703 bytes) (-868)‎.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Thomas.W — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Adam Kess (talk • contribs)
 * It's easy to see from your contributions that you're very interested in promoting your own photography on Wikipedia, but WP is not an image repository, that's what Commons is for, and the material you added to Ferrari was totally promotional, and does not belong in the article. Several of the articles you have added images to also seem to need a clean-up, such as Salamanca (Madrid) where you have added an excessive number of images of doors (suggested reading: Manual of Style/Images). And please sign your posts using four tildes (~) . Thomas.W talk 12:43, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned article
Hi. Could someone see if they can link to this new article? 1950 Ferrari 166 Berlinetta Le Mans. Thanks Gbawden (talk) 09:55, 21 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Hmmm, it is far too specific. It should be made into a Ferrari 166 MM article, if not merged altogether with the other Ferrari 166 articles. I could do it one of these days. Cloverleaf II (talk) 19:36, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Sergio Marchionne: "Ferrari is not for sale"
This article is currently wrong. Fiat will not be selling Ferrari as announced by Marchionne. I intend to remove the information over the next day or so reflecting this news.  Cassianto Talk   10:10, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Text removed per this announcement from Marchionne in Bloomberg Business News.   Cassianto Talk   19:11, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I undid your edit, as the IPO is official. See for example Bloomberg:Ferrari IPO Filing to Come in Days, Fiat Chrysler CEO Says. I'm not much versed in finance, so I cannot tell if currently the whole operation is described correctly. —Cloverleaf II (talk) 19:53, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * It's a reliable source and post-dates the original citations. The text is outdated and should never have been added per WP:CRYSTAL.  I shall self revert but the wording needs to reflect the sources.    Cassianto Talk   20:09, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * True, it badly needs to be reworded appropriately, but the IPO announcement is months old news and has got to be included in the article. As I said I'm not too comfortable with these matters, otherwise I'd have done something about it already. —Cloverleaf II (talk) 20:29, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Not a problem. This, of course, does clash with what Marchionne said to Bloomberg; I suppose only time will tell.  I may reword it over the next few days.    Cassianto Talk   20:58, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

It appears that only a 10% portion of the company will sold publicly in the IPO – the remainder will accrue to FCA shareholders, with 10% still held by Piero Ferrari personally. See this. I'll try to update the article later today... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 18:51, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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