I'm sure many of you have noticed, but Jerry Bruckheimer has produced a few movies where the starring Ferrari has a tendency to morph into a different model in the same scene.

Exhibit A: Beverly Hills Cop II
Eddie Murphy begins his day driving a 328 onto the streets of detroit, but once he gets on the road, his car magically loses 0.2 liters of engine displacement. Fast forward to 3:48 to see the clip. Click anywhere on the video except the two "play" buttons to open the video in another window, or just copy the text below into another window (Youtube won't let this video embed for some reason).
YouTube - Beverly Hills Cop II (part 1)
Exhibit B: Bad Boys II
Will Smith's car changes so much between a 550 and a 575 that it makes my friggin head spin. Look in the early parts of the clip for the 550 wheels before he makes a dramatic slow-mo spin, which morph into 575 wheels when he pulls away onto the highway. Probably the best part of this clip is the crazy amalgam 550/575, clearly visible at 3:14 mark. That is a car with 575 headlights and a 550 front grille and foglight housing. You can call that what you want, but two options might be the Ferrari "570" or the "555."
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Exhibit C: National Treasure 2
For those of you who watched National Treasure 1, you'll remember Riley bought a 360 spyder at the end of the movie. In the beginning of part 2, you'll see it has magically morphed into a 430 Spider (fast forward to 9:35 if you don't like movies). It's always possible that he traded the 360 for the 430, right?
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Well, at the end of the movie, he gets the 360 back, from the president, tax free (fast forward to 8:20, again, if you hate movies).
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What's with Jerry Bruckheimer and his morphing Ferraris? Maybe he only does that on his sequels?

 

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I never noticed the actual car was different in bad boys, thought it was just the rims, but the national treasure one was pretty obvious to me when I saw it in theaters

 

Yeah, I know the clip won't work embedded, that's why I said to click on the actual video to bring up the youtube video in a separate window.

 

1st noticed it in bad boys goin back n 4th b/w the 550 and 575. good investigative reporting!

 

Never noticed it in Bad Boys 2, National treasure was extremely obvious.

 

Dude, you have issues.

 

I caught it in National Treasure 2. My 13-year old son turns to me in the middle of the scene in a packed theater and screams "that isn't the same Ferrari!" I've never been so proud.

 

It always irked me that they used both iterations of the Maranello in that movie. I couldn't figure out why they switched back and forth except to surmise that they probably filmed different scenes in different locations and it was, for some reason, a hassle to transport the car.

However, I never noticed the 575M headlight housing in an otherwise 550 front grille. Great catch. The only thing I can think of to explain this is that later in the scene, the headlight gets shot out. Perhaps, for special effects, they bought a (575M) headlight housing, rigged it to shatter and look like it was struck by gunfire, and installed it into the 550. For the sake of symmetry, perhaps they bought two 575M headlight housings and installed both.

 

Yeah, I have no idea why they did the ol frankenstein 550/575, but you're probably right. My friend who works in movies tells me that happens all the time in car scenes, but usually in cars less noticeable than a ferrari! Basically filming the same scene at two different times and different tech/cameras needed, and they probably did the light housings for continuity.

The way I noticed was my brother and I had both seen the trailer for the movie separately, and I told him that the 575 looked good, and he said it was a 550 and that I should get my stupid little eyes checked. Then we bet each other 10 bucks, watched the trailer in slow-mo, and both ended up dead even.

 

The 575 in that movie is Bruckheimer's personal car, which may have something to do with it. I'd be willing to bet that he didn't want his car in those stunt/action scenes, and for whatever reason they were too lazy to get a stunt 575.