Luxury Don't miss out on the headlines from Luxury. Followed categories will be added to My News. Ferrari’s first four-door car is an intriguing proposition.
Can there be any more selfish purchase than a new Ferrari? The brand’s two seat supercars usually represent the ultimate indulgence, the best part of a million bucks spent on a two-seat supercar designed to excel at going fast, showing off, and showing off while going fast. But this one is different. The Purosangue is Ferrari’s first four-door model.
As the first four-door Ferrari , and the brand’s first high-riding SUV, the Purosangue is a sensible, everyday Ferrari. Does that concept sit well with you? Isn’t using a Ferrari as a regular conveyance a bit like having champagne and oysters every day? Having spent a day with the “Pureblood”, I’m not convinced it makes sense. One concern is that its infotainment system requires a co-pilot in the passenger seat to operate a touchscreen where a glovebox might usually be.
Ferrari’s infotainment controls can frustrate. Because that’s too far away for the driver to reach, the pilot in command accesses navigation, music, communications, and smartphone mirroring services in their digital dashboard by swiping and prodding at a thumbnail-sized patch of the steering wheel. This is infuriating when it works as intended – and sometimes it doesn’t work.
That’s a shame, because you might need to use the stereo to drown out the rattles from the dashboard. I’ve .