The Purosangue Thread

This mule has been spotted several time already in Maranello and other places, wearing Ferrari rims and Ferrari seats - and a Levante body.

 

I was driving mine home from the dealer yesterday - recall on the batteries. High cap battery was draining the 12V. They re-programmed my charger and replaced the 12V.

Anyway, the point in responding was: just as I passed the toll both for the bridge, as two lanes merge to one and I was passing a car, a slower car merges aggressively into the lane now nearly occupied by three cars. The two back cars (mine included, brake hard). The other hard braking car now exactly matching my speed as we are rapidly running out of lane. I go to the gas aggressively to avoid an issue and OMG! The silent thrust of extreme power threw me so fast out of harm’s way I was shocked! It was other worldly. This from a guy spending over 70 days a year on a racetrack, driving.

 

I remember you saying you didn't like the tesla experience at all... is there a difference between the Taycan experience and the tesla one ?

 

I am not sure the canyon could have handled both if us silently ripping up and down the road. Still remember the day I picked up my f12 and passed you in your tdf. Hope life is well.

DC- They are completely different cars...the Porsche is a complete package....100%. I have the Ts and it’s insane. Flat in the twisties, feels more like 911 than panamera and the fit and finish is spectacular. Don’t mean to offend but Porsche took their time and did it right.

 

Honestly it is really hard for me to like a completely electric car. In the Porsche all you do is floor it, no separate program to plug in for the hyper mode. Unlimited launches without battery degradation as in the T car. Both are too heavy. The torque delivery in the Porsche is impressive. In the Tesla it seemed significantly less. I have passed so many Prius and Tesla’s going 55 in the fast lane, I really despise them, as a people. Lol

 

There are a lot of 'similarities' in this discussion with the time Porsche was developing its Cayenne
After all, it's a Porsche but certainly in a different category as its 911 series.
As with all Ferrari models, introduced more recently, there will be lovers and haters and I do not expect anything else with the Purosangue.

 

Puh...
The good old days of V12 are gone.
Now we're talking 12V...


p.s.: living in Stuttgart I see Taycan regularly. And they look simply beautyful.
Elegant, aggressive, very cool.
Much more refined than Panamera or Teslas .

Best...

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I spent a little time around a Levante this weekend for the first time. I thought it was ugly. My wife and I both immediately said as walking up to it, “If you stuck an Infiniti badge on it you’d never know it was Italian.” Plastic front grill, gaudy plastic front trident. What a hunk of junk, I wouldn’t give you $75K for one.

 

Sounds like a V12.

 

Brake cooling?


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This is normally the place of lights on the Levante:

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if they use levante body for purosangue then why it's have camouflage? everyone know how levante looks....

 

They often test mechanical bits behind the skin of another model.

 

Most of the time they also use camouflage to hide some features such as the door handles, the shortened/longer wheel base, position and orientation of pillars, and so on.

In the case of this mule, using the Levante body is an easy choice as it’s from a -former- « cousin », that enables Ferrari to hide all of the mechanics and designs under an existing well known body - with that, no need to hide the final design under a huge wrap of camouflage.

That also gives us a clue of the size and approx proportions of the final Purosangue. Ferrari no longer uses the GTC4 as a mule, whose body and proportions most probably don’t fit the new architecture of the Purosangue.

 

Purosangue will have a V 12.

 

Glad it’s confirmed again!

It has been mentioned already some months ago by a Ferrari representative, saying the Purosangue will use the modular platform allowing the fit of V12, V8TT, and V6 with hybridation.

 

this is what Urus should also have .... or at least V10 from huracan

 

The clip is unmistakably a v12. Sounds like a muffled 812/F12/FF/Lusso. One of the most distinct exhaust notes in the automotive world.

 

so Ferrari will be the only SUV in the world with NA engine or I'm wrong?