Lately it seems that the most exciting thing and exotic carmaker can do is make their vehicles into people carriers. It started with the Porsche Panamera and was followed by the Aston Martin Rapide. Both of these vehicles are available in rear wheel drive. The Panamera is also available in all wheel drive. Both of these cars have 4 doors. The FF oddly has only two.
The choice to make the FF a coupe is strange and in my opinion irrational. It seems as though your not getting all you pay for considering the point of these super cars is to comfortably transport your passengers. I think a Porsche 911 would do the job better and for a fraction of the price. Ferrari has also killed the shape of this car. Some people have been referring to this car as a “shooting break”. The shooting break originates back to a time when hunters would need a slightly larger car than a coupe in order to haul their guns. Your author doesn’t think the styling works, and it defiantly doesn’t look like a Ferrari.
Both Porcshe and Aston Martin have managed to transfer their iconic coupe shapes into 4 door saloon cars. Ferrari in their quest for 2 doors seems to have lost its shape. Yes the nose looks like it’s from a Scaglietti and the tail resembles a mix of 599 and 458 Italia but the profile is a mess.
Ferrari seems to be pushing to the for-front their new 4-wheel drive system, which is apparently superb. However the car feels rushed and unfinished to me. It feels like hanging a Rembrandt on the wall with a frame you bought from the dollar store. To me it seems as though the car was not designed by a single craftsman but by a cold calculated committee. Ferrari has traded its passion for logic, and logic has no place in the realm of the super car.
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