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Ferrari Not Impressed With Stretched 360

 Ferrari Not Impressed With Stretched 360
Stretched 'Ferrari' 360 Limosine

Threatens to sue

Threatens to sue

Ferrari tuning, some see it as blasphemous while some argue that everything, including prancing pony super cars, can be improved upon. Most tuning companies draw the line at new rims, over-sized rear spoilers and carbon-fibre body kits, but sometimes you come across more extremely 'tuned' cars.

One of these extreme cars is the stretched 2000 Ferrari 360 which seats 8 people and is now on sale on eBay for GBP 150,000 (Euro 195,000). This is not a collectors item, this is a business all on its own and comes with two website URL's and will cost customers GBP 700 an hour to rent. The eight carbon fibre sport seats can be accessed through two huge electric gullwing doors.

Ferrari headquarters however are not amused by this unique Ferrari and sent out their lawyers to ask Dan Cawley, the current owner, to remove all Ferrari and 360 Modena badges from the car. Reasoning behind it is that the 6 meter long limo is no longer an actual Ferrari and that he is infringing on their copyright.

Cawley asks in return via TimesOnline: “What kind of precedent does it set when you can’t do what you like with your own property?”

Mar 13, 2008 10:33 am By Frank de Leeuw van Weenen
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 JohnnyG JohnnyG
This is just a disgrace. I would file a lawsuit too!!
March 13, 2008 10:05 pm
 carcrazy1234 carcrazy1234
wth?? Ferrari your stupid... he bought the car... he can do ANYTHING he wants to the car.. seriously do u see honda or other car company's spazzing over overly tuned ricers that make their cars overweight with big ass exhausts??? that may be a different story... BUT he bought the car with his money, therefore he can do whatever he pleases with the car he bought. i still think this stretched limo is a little over done, but thats the owners choice!
March 13, 2008 10:46 pm
 dmanero dmanero
Ferrari sue their ass. if you going to ruin a Ferrari at least have the common decency to debadge it.
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March 13, 2008 11:21 pm
 JohnnyG JohnnyG
I am going to have to side with Ferrari on this one. The guy just totally ruined this car to the point it is no longer a Ferrari. It's one thing to own it and have it be soley yours. But he is trying to profit off of this. De-badge it...
March 14, 2008 1:57 am
Altough it is rather tasteless, the limo guy has a point. It's his. He paid for it. No matter if he does make financial benefit (ie. renting it out for hire) he bought it...Ferrari sold it...transaction was made...end of story. You don't see a designer telling a fat ugly guy to remove the labels of his suit for altering it and replacing the buttons with pink ones!
March 14, 2008 4:18 am
 benzboy benzboy
Ferrai, you prancing horse, ASS! The man has a bill of sale, buy a vowel, get a clue and and most importantly, get over yourselves. This man could have made this car out of a fiero. LOL
March 14, 2008 4:43 am
 _M7_ _M7_
this hapens when you sales car to people how just have money and not taste ... this people dont know anything about cars like ferrari
March 14, 2008 5:22 am
a fool and his money, soon will part.
March 14, 2008 7:14 am
 jphxr jphxr
i personally think the man has every right to do whatever he wants to with his car. But if he wants to sell that thing as a Ferrari, thats just not right.
March 14, 2008 8:35 am
 radmeister radmeister
Should be de-badged it's like pirated software/music/movies there is very little about it that is illegal when used for personal use without making profit. The problem comes when you take something that is not yours in this case the ferrari brand name and use it without the permission of the owner to gain profit. When you buy a car no matter what brand you purchase the car and the vehicle is your own property not the brand name. Just because you buy a ferrari doesn't mean now you own the copyright rights to ferrari as a brand. They have the right to claim their brand name off of anything they do not want to be affiliated with. Same way you cannot make a commercial for your product using other brands in it without the permission of the owner of those brands approval. That's why sometimes you see de-badged cars in commercials. If they go to court it will be a 5minute trial and ferrari will rightfully win, he has no ownership of the brand.
March 14, 2008 11:07 am
that is the coolest and best looking ferrari i've ever seen. seriously! ferrari should be honered and sue themselves for haven't come up with such a hyper limo yet. but today, worrying about the climate, it unfortunately isn't sensible anymore. but still, that's one awsome car.
March 14, 2008 1:27 pm
 phobos phobos
why does ferrari need a hyper limo? sue this guy..he destroyed a very decent ferrari 360
March 14, 2008 3:04 pm
 dmanero dmanero
roadrunner - what are you 5. This is a degrace to Ferrari. If you say this is the best looking Ferrari you have seen, you eith have no taste or have no cool what the line up is of Ferrari.
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March 14, 2008 3:13 pm
 pzigly pzigly
I agree that this Ferarri is ruined, but most people who buy a Ferarri do not use it to its full potential anyway. They just use it to cruise and show off to stand out. This is the ultimate showoff cruiser and will stand out among all other limos. What is the point of debadging, everyone knows it was a Ferarri. Blind people will will even know its a Ferarri once they hear it. Unlike music this guy cant mass produce these limos like a remix, and collect the profit which can reduce sales of the original song. He only has one, and when he sells it to some guy in Dubai (lol) its not like Ferarri will loose out on any type of sale. Whoever buys this will want a limo or a show off toy, not a sports car. Who ever wants a sports car will buy a Ferarri not a Ferarri limo. They are 2 different demographics. Ferarri shouldn't even worry about this. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT FERARRI DONT MAKE LIMOS. Everyone knows that this is custom and not affiliated with Ferarri.
March 14, 2008 5:56 pm
 JohnnyG JohnnyG
This is on his limo companies website and also has its own dedicated website. The guy is practically marketing this car as the first "genuine" Ferrari 360 Modena stretch limo. Only way it would be genuine is if it were made by Ferrari. So yes, Ferrari has every right to file a lawsuit.
March 14, 2008 5:58 pm
 pzigly pzigly
If the guy said that this is a "genuine" 360 then he is an moron and/or looking for trouble and he should be sued. He needs to change it to custom 360.
March 14, 2008 6:10 pm
 pzigly pzigly
Sry for grammer mistake. I wanted to put idio..t, but website wouldnt let me lol
March 14, 2008 6:12 pm
 JohnnyG JohnnyG
Joe_Limon- Yes, but those modified Ferrari's that we always see had Ferrari's permission/approval to do so. The guy is marketing this as " The world’s first and only Stretched Ferrari F1 360 Limousine". The car is sitting on a new chassis by the way, not the original. He is making a profit off of this and it's wrong.
March 14, 2008 6:24 pm
If Ferrari would win this law suit it would set precedence for every Automaker and the Owners of any vehicle. This would mean that you with your Honda Accord could not tint the windows in fear of a lawsuit. Or add anything aftermarket what so ever to you any vehicle that did not have that Automaker’s trademark badge. An even better example, if you put aftermarket non Ferrari wheels on YOUR super sports car with out Ferrair’s written consent. Ferrari could and will sue you. This is will hurt the aftermarket companies and more important us as car owners, because we would have to pay high dollar prices for trademark approved accessories. This also would allow Ferrari to sue anyone that is selling one in other than original factory condition. Overall this might hurt Ferrari sales with owners fearing lawsuits.
March 14, 2008 6:44 pm
 carolinaluvr101 carolinaluvr101
Okay so what the man did is certainly sacrilege, but Ferrari shouldn't worry about it because everyone knows that the 360 was perfectly fine and nothing like this limo when it came out. They need to stop flipping out and so should everyone else here because most people who buy Ferraris (including the person(s) who buy this THING) are not petrolheads who already know the detailed specs. on the car the day its released, but people who buy the car to say, "Hey Bob, I just bought myself a FIIRR-ARRRR-EEE to stick my silicon-filled wife in." Although not every Ferrari driver is like this, you only need to watch the numerous videos on YouTube of people crashing their Ferraris to get an idea. Also consider what people who bought Nissan Skylines did to their cars; they painted them neon, they stuck nitros on them, they rebuilt the engines (that's a really good thing!), and they put on the most preposterous body kits on them. Yet, Nissan never let out a peep... only they did built the GT-R which cannot be tuned as easily. Sorry if that offended anyone!
March 14, 2008 6:53 pm
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