Roma spider

Are you going to get a Spider?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Negative Bro.

I prefer the coupe and my 812GTS will tickle my topless thirst when required.

 

I would love to see Roma's at Porsche Turbo Mileage. 15,000 - 30,000 miles is normal on a used Turbo.

It really annoys me how people are so scared to drive Ferrari's!

 

Roma Spider on the cover of TOFM 58.

Marcel Massini

Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

IF that's how every angle looked, I'd be hard pressed to name a prettier Ferrari...

 

I got today the prices for the Roma Spider. OMG Round about 233.272 Euro plus must-buy options plus freigth = 245.000 plus options. So minimum 280.000 Euro for this car. Are 40.000 Euro more as for the Roma Coupe.

I love the car but cancel my order and are happy to receive my 296GTS next year.

 

Also coupe is reaching easy 290.000 euro or more...as mine...just for rosso portofino special paint it cost 23.000 euro extra (including VAT) .
No shame at Maranello

 

I am not sure about that.

I could list so many..... But just for arguments sake how about a Ferrari Dino?

Also, this angle is not the greatest for the Roma Spider.

Whilst the lighting and editing has been executed well, I truly think that they should have used one of these shots.


Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

I'm saying that particular angle, to me, looks rather nice...and it conceals the aspects of the Roma Spider I find so disappointing. I'm speaking to what could have been.

I can't agree with you more about the Dino.

 

\\\

I don't mind it from some angles.... But I am not totally in love with it. A bit like the Roma too.

I always prefer the Roma from Rear Quarter and some don't really like the rear.

 

I don’t think the launch color helped the car either . I think something, say , more bold looking would have been better.

 

Spot on. Haptic sucks. I’m 40. Yes I know how to use technology. Haptic still sucks.

 

Adding an LED panel and getting rid of analog RPMs is awful. Porsche just did the same thing with 2024 Cayenne. Who honestly wants a crappy LED panel instead of a real gauge? NOBODY buying a sports car. Perhaps it works in a Tesla. It’s extremely disappointing watching the luxury sports segment moving to full LED panels. It ruins the design the of the vehicles.

 

What kind of info does a "real gauge" you than a screen does not? Formula 1 cars have screens by the way...

 

I love the design, it’s very elegant! The rear is gorgeous, the lines are pure. I would have preferred a hard top (like the Cali and Portofino) but the soft top works well withe the design in the end. I hope that Ferrari will keep a model such as the Portofino (or its future replacement) that has a hard top and only comes as a convertible.

 

Sometimes things in life don’t have to make sense or be able to be measured empirically. Sometimes we just like things and don’t want them to change. Analog tach is ageless. The digital screens will be laughably bad in five years.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

Well, that's your opinion and of course you are entitled to having it, but others may beg to differ. Personally, I like the fact that screens give you the option of multiple display options and getting to see myriads of performance parameters, not being confined by the presence of a few physical gauges.

 

Spot on. It’s awful looking. No

Exactly right. Screens look awful in 3 years max. Some cars are timeless. Whens the last time you said wow that analogue gauge looks so dated? In college I took a user interface design class that made you realize things as they are often are correct. Dropping a laptop monitor panel into a car center isn't the answer to a well designed vehicle. It looks like crap and everyone knows it. Tesla is junk for this exact reason. Everything they do is just dropped in without design. The roma fails in design too. The rear bump is awful looking, the digital gauges of a racket. Even porsche moved back to real buttons now for some controls because the feedback on Taycan has been so terrible for them.

 

I like having some of the functionality of the newer tech for a GT. And I think the rear end of the Roma is very nice. I like the more curved lines as opposed to the sharp angular lines. Probably has something to do with the fact that I have always liked 911’s too. The Roma is very fun to drive on a longer trip - comfortable but can perform well too. To each his own!

 

We shouldn’t have to choose tech or no tech. The point is things need to be well designed. The RPM gauge should stay a real gauge. Yes, some other portions can be digital. The Romas drop in displays leave a lot to be desired. The Roma won’t age well as a result.

 

Completely agree. Who wants an iPhone 3GS nowadays?

All these screens will age pretty badly. A Patek will always be a Patek.

 

Well stated - "A Patek will always be a Patek."

 

When I see a digital dash, I think it is a $2-4k liability when it breaks, not if. My only hope is that modular systems develop that can replace old screens easily with a new OLED type screen.

Random trivia: the only vehicles that I've ever had to replace a dash cluster in were both of my Audi A8. Both of them! And it was a conventional cluster. But they made it so that the LED backlighting would burn out around 5 years old and the only repair was a whole new cluster for $2k.

 

Fair. I love the tech and I loved the original Audi virtual cockpit, which has aged quite well. But an analog rev counter with screens on each side is just less prone to aging. In 35 years of driving a variety of rather pedestrian cars, I’ve never once had an analog tach or speedo fail, yet all the fancy digital stuff in my wife’s car lags and just plain locks up at least once a week. But I’ll freely admit to being a decade or two beyond the target demographic.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk