What is it?
It probably doesn’t sound flattering to suggest that Ferrari’s latest four-seater, the GTC4 Lusso T, is made up of a convenient collection of pre-existing components and assemblies, given that, like every modern Ferrari, it delivers exalted performance and impressive looks.
Yet it’s true: every element of this car was built in the first place for a different purpose than this one, and it seems legitimate to speculate on how the buyer – who is being asked to pay a price starting at more than £200,000 and extending beyond £250,000 if you choose the options fitted to our test car – feels about that. Most big-name supercars have a very singular provenance.
In this case, the large (4.92m-long) four-seat body started life in the four-wheel-drive FF, a car created to persuade the faithful to take a Ferrari away on skiing weekends rather than the family SUV. The FF’s mighty, normally aspirated V12 is replaced in the Lusso T by a twin-turbo V8, mainly because that’s what Ferrari mostly makes now, to get the CO2 numbers down. Even the use of the Lusso name, borrowed from a couple of distinguished historic Ferrari models, looks more a matter of expediency than sentiment. Ferrari under CEO Sergio Marchionne is a more commercial enterprise than ever, and maybe this is some of the evidence.
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This is just practice...
...I can see that I'm in the minority here, because I think it looks amazing. I also believe that this has been Ferrari preparing us for the inevitable, that being a future crossover/CUV/SUV in their line up. And if you were to shorten the distances between the front axle and base of the windshield (by moving the windshield closer), there by adding more space to the interior. Then lengthening the wheel base and body a smudge and adding a set of rear doors, and there you have the cash cow that will allow Ferrari to go on making the V8 and 12 cylinder vehicles that all the car enthusiasts for infinity! Its the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Car enthusiasts hate them, but if we want the automakers want continue to make the vehicles that enthusiasts love, they got to put an SUV into their lineup. I'm not saying that all these vehicles has got to EVER go off road or be equippd to, but if a brand can figure out a way that such a "high riding" vehicle match the ethos of their product and still look good doing it (I'm looking at you Bentegay!), im all for it. Especially if going so allows them to continue to make the coupes, convertibles and Sport sedans that we all love! How many many current Porsche 911's, Boxsters, Caymans and Panameras, owe their existence to the Porsche Cayenne?! And while Ferrari may already be a license to print money, who can blame them for one wanting to secure their futures. I say the GTC4 Lusso T is just practice for whatever stallions the Prancing horse is preparing us for in the years to come!
OK, but the problem is
OK, but the problem is Porsche and Ferrai (etc.) abandon their marvelous engines (NA V8, V12 for Ferrari, NA Flat6 for Porsche) for gas plants engines... When you see the actual Boxster and Cayman... Sad days...
I think I'm not the only car
I think I'm not the only car lover.
But i's hard for us to see in the 21th century the end of automotive or a kind of automotive.
The apogee was the 90's I think.
it's only perfect
if you were after some kinda bastard child of a Ferrari 456 and a BMW M Coupe from a decade+ ago.