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"Patina, bro."
And, to be fair, aluminum sheetmetal can rust, particularly where it meets steel structure in automotive applications. I've seen it plenty.

There's no steel structure on a 458 ;)
 
There's no steel structure on a 458 ;)
I don't doubt that, and a 458 doesn't necessarily seem a likely victim if there were, but it can happen...even on a Ferrari. I knew someone with a 308 GT4 that had some cancerous aluminum in the quarter panel just behind the door sill, where there was indeed steel structure.
 
I don't doubt that, and a 458 doesn't necessarily seem a likely victim if there were, but it can happen...even on a Ferrari. I knew someone with a 308 GT4 that had some cancerous aluminum in the quarter panel just behind the door sill, where there was indeed steel structure.

Yeah, they used to be a steel-tube spaceframe with alloy panels bolted on. Now they use mostly extruded aluminium structures to form the spaceframes.
 
To bring it back into the realm of real-world vehicles (the Panthermobile that I posted above is real and can be driven) in a logical way...

Pink Panther was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, another of which was Wacky Races. Professor Pat Pending was a character on this cartoon and he had his Convert-A-Car. Well, someone was daft enough to reproduce it:

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