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Originally posted by Shazaam!
Yo might be interested to know that I found that a paint touch-up using the Ferrari shade of red, Rosso Chiaro, is an exact match on a 916. PPG currently supplies the paint for all Ferrari's production cars.

Now that makes sense, because...

...at the turn of the last centuary when motor racing became a national event, the major players decided that each nation should have a destinctive colour. Britain chose GREEN - hence British Racing Green, the French chose BLUE, the Germans chose SILVER and guess what the Italians chose?

Yes RED, it is their national colour for racing so no suprise that Ducati Red and Ferrari Red is the same.

That is why Ducati have Yellow bikes as RED is Italian racing colours but Yellow is Ducati.

[Edited on 1-7-2005 by Desmo748]