Michael A

This "roof in space" look as a result of blacked out A-pillars is not cutting it anymore. Isn't this Styling 101, where you are suppose to carry the lines of the car up and over the roof to the back of the car? I don't see the Italians doing this blacked out A-pillar theme on their supercars. There must be a reason for that (such as, it doesn't work).

Michael

torquetube

CaryKen

Ooh, snap!

gotz06?

You probably been up to long

z edge

that Ferrari GTO is drop dead gorgeous even at 30 years old

Paulchristian

I, for one, agree with the OP. It is time. Not that the black looks bad, but body color would look better in my opinion.

LS1LT1

Huh?



Well, that takes care of THAT "brilliant" observation LOL.

hig4s

Actually I never noticed, but then I have a black C6

70LQ4

Dam them Fartrarris are ugly !

rcallen484

bet runnin' 4-bangers two

Michael A

Torquetube, thank you for the trip down memory lane. Unfortunately, there isn't a car there that isn't at least a decade old. GM falls into the same trap. The industry moves ahead, and there is GM still chroming wheels, and blacking out A-pillars. It just makes their cars looked dated.

There isn't a Ferrari made with a blacked out A-pillar anymore, and Lamborghini's are all body colored except on the Spyders.

Let me show you some current models.









Michael

Glenn Quagmire

I for one, never gave this issue much thought until it was brought up here. In looking at the handful of examples, I would vote for the body color pillars. However, if someone drops an Enzo in my driveway, painting the pillars body color won't happen.

torquetube

This is quite a retreat from your original assertions that anybody familiar with "Styling 101" knows A-pillars must be body-colored, and that Italians don't build supercars with black ones because it's a styling feature that "doesn't work."

Now they're just "dated," presumably because the last super Ferrari to offer them was the 599 ... last produced way back in the summer of 2012.

There's an argument to be made for body-colored A-pillars, but this isn't it.

CRABBYJ

Not for those C6's that have a transparent top it wouldn't.



In that lies the problem, especially for those who own both a transparent top and one body colored too.

Michael A

You mean like this 2012 Ferrari 599?



Michael

Qwik01

I took the car and drivers pics floating around and photoshopped the pillars body color. Plus wanted to see some other colors.

torquetube

Of course not. I mean the Ferrari 599 GTO - the one without body-colored A-pillars.



Seriously: this Italians-don't-do-black-A-pillars argument is terrible. They've done it more than probably anyone.

Chappie

I like the blacked out roof look. And since when should the Corvette take styling cues from the Italians?


Chappie (who bleeds red-white-&-blue)

BlueOx

I would like the option to have the A pillars body colored. Heck if you want to argue about it, why not have them chrome again!

CaryKen

Lust... Lust... Lust...