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And it looks very good without them!!

 

Congratulations! What a beautiful car!!

 

Not mine! Being shown at the local dealer.

 

Yes. I also saw the same gorgeous Portofino at Cauley. It was lovely. My girlfriend liked the few Californias on display. I told wait until you see the car that replaced it. She fell in love with the Portofino. Image Unavailable, Please Login


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Image Unavailable, Please Login on Wednesday I got a test drive of the dealer's new demo car.

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And !! Opinion??

 

I enjoyed it quite a bit, every thing they promised, stiffer, quicker and interior make over too

 

Disclaimers: It was only about 15 minutes of city driving, maybe 7 miles. Then a ride with salesman who pushed it harder to show the acceleration. I've never driven a California or T... But I will say that ultimately, it drove how I figured the T drove, from what I have read and watched about them.

- very docile and easy to drive in auto
- fast, but felt stable and smooth, much more similar a German car than any older Ferrari V8
- undoubtedly you can drive it daily
- great visibility, easy entry and egress
- tight roof, quickly opened
- steering was sharp enough for GT, feels fairly 'light on its feet'
- sort of loud on WoT but I didn't like the exhaust sound
- with the auto mode on it kept trying to override my use of the paddles and even in Sport it made the throttle less responsive than I would like
- surprised that the stereo was JBL, like my paralegal's Prius
- I got used to the wheel mounted turn signals fairly quickly but I didn't have enough time to figure out some of the other controls... It is cluttered and I think I'm more into the McLaren ideal of keeping the wheel for steering.
- I think it looks great, and love some of the curves and angles, especially the buttresses when open and trunk with the soft duck tail. The nose looks much lower to the ground IRL when standing over it than almost all of the initial images reflect. Best in metallic paints.
- exterior options you want are cameras, carbon fender vents and tail light surrounds; getting carbon for the lip and rear spoiler is probably going to be more of a risk than investment since it will get chipped and scraped. I kind of like the black side skirts to make the side look curvier.

- this one has nearly $100k in options pushing it to $310,000...

Which frankly makes it not a reasonable value proposition for me, even considering the emotional attachment to to the Ferrari brand. If I wanted to get a "daily driver," convertible Ferrari with 95% of the same features I would look for a California T with an extended warranty for ~$160k instead.

Final conclusions:
1) I did not have that "gotta have it!" emotional response.
2) if I was spending three hundred thousand* I would get a 488 (or perhaps a Performante or 720S)

* When that's the entry level it is kind of mind blowing the amount of money required.

 

I think the whole Entry Level bit is a marketing gimmick and should have some pretty serious air quotes around it. The steep options pricing is a pretty common way for high end companies to get their prices into the stratosphere. I always took for granted that by buying one of these cars I should expect to sink a ton of cash into it. If I just wanted to go fast on the cheap, I'd buy a ZR1.

 

I don't know about the pin striped joggers, but the car looks dope...

 

When you pull into the wrong boutique and have to make a u-turn back to the highway...

 

How does that Louis Armstrong bit go? "I see trees of green..."

 

Looks like a cold day to have the top down...

 

The Portofino & the Corvette C8 share a striking similarity in wheel designs Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

I'm trying to find more twilight pics. The Beauty Hour really brings out the best in these shapes...

 

For me, Black always stands out in a crowd...

 

The fashionable new pet that's replacing the celebrities' ubiquitous lap dog in a handbag.

 

Being from California makes me biased, I know, but I just can't see the appeal of owning one of these cars in a place as cold and wet as Britain.

 

Thanks for the review of a very well equipped Portofino. Concerning the price, it should be noted that the first USA dealer demo Portofinos were shipped via air freight. The ~ $11,000 charge is included in the "other options".

 

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https://www.autogespot.com/ferrari-portofino/2018/07/23
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https://www.autogespot.com/ferrari-portofino/2018/07/22
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