Stick a square body on the back of a coupé and, inevitably, it’ll get called a breadvan.
Curious. The Ferrari GTC4 Lusso – facelift of the five-year old FF – is Ferrari’s take on the breadvan theme.
Ferrari likes having a front-engined four-seater in its range. By default it has been a V12, but until the FF arrived, replacing the 612 Scaglietti, what it never had was four-wheel drive.
The FF did, and the GTC4 Lusso still does now, but the Lusso also has four-wheel steering, thanks to a development of the system that appeared on the F12tdf. An actuator on the toe-link on the rear suspension can give a little positive or negative lock, to increase either agility or stability.
That’s the most notable mechanical thing in a raft of changes that Ferrari thinks warrant an entire name change: FF out, GTC4 Lusso in.
Here are those changes in no particular order, then. There’s a restyling of the outside – the rear in particular, where twin (attractive) tail-lights each side replace single (less attractive) ones.
There are some aero and rear roof profile changes, too, but while some coupé-estates are beautiful and some are plain quirky, to me this still errs towards the latter. Nothing particularly wrong with that, mind.