Not A Fan Of The Portofino? Give This One A Look – A Wheels Boutique Build

An excellent way to get customers for your products--tell the people who've bought the car you want to sell them stuff for that it's "not a favored model", and if only owners would buy your products, their cars could get "some love."

I like mine just fine, thank you.

 

Wow, that looks absolutely hideous. The poke makes the fit look really off, and frankly, to take a GT that rides so nice on MPS4S and put it on Pzero that are quite inferior, along with a much stiffer sidewall, and stiffer suspension, no thanks. The looks and the ride is ruined, and those big wheels do absolutely nothing good for performance either. You asked, that's my view.

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I like it. Nice job.

 

I like it a lot.

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My wife and I own a Nero Daytona exterior with Cuoio interior 2020 Portofino that we absolutely love. It’s the best car we’ve ever owned and looks elegant and classy...unlike the car you ruined with your hideous and gauche add ons.

 

The new tires are taller (fewer revolutions per mile) than the stock tires,which is the wrong direction to go for better handling and which will reduce acceleration slightly.

Have you driven the car hard through bumpy corners to see if there are any interference problems?

 

That seems strange. I have driven two Portos with Novi springs, and both rode quite a bit harsher. One car had stock wheels still while the other had a 21/22 setup. Both had a fairly moderate lowering about 30-35mm, so not slammed. Definitely nowhere near as comfortable as stock. Our roads in my country are pretty good, so it's not because of terrible road conditions. Aside from the stiffer ride, the firmer suspension also transmitted more road noise into the cabin, especially in the cabin of the car with aftermarket wheels.

Not trying to be a stick in the mud, just sharing what some drawbacks can be.

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Not only does the added diameter slow down the car, those rear tyres are very heavy. All that weight is not only added to unsprung and rotating mass, it is added to the outer circumference where it matters the most.
On top of that, this setup adds only 1 cm of section width in the front, but 5 cm in the back. This really changes how easily the car rotate and adds a lot of understeer. So there are several performance drawbacks.

But at the end of the day I suppose it is about the looks, more than performance or comfort. To each their own.

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Not a fan of the wheels, or the color scheme. Other than that, it's perfect.

But wheels and personalization are a very personal choice. I would love to see how these Ankry wheels would look on on a Portofino (in the stock wheel sizes) . It's hard to find them on any car:
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As a sales guy, I am still trying to understand why you would insult the customer about their car.

 

I have been in tech sales for 25 years and totally agree. Throw the FUD at the competition not on what u r trying to sell. May be a better approach to say....one or the best selling Ferrari’s of all time can be even further improved by....blah blah. There are plenty of journalists that have trashed EVERY modern Ferrari so using that as justification doesn’t make sense. I have a feeling they were going w the inferiority angle and it’s not a great play. Just my 2 cents. I am a OEM guy when it comes to Ferrari but if I was going aftermarket I think it looks interesting.

 

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Nothing new here

 

FWIW Id prefer to see the images without the massive amount of digital manipulation. Its a turn off

 

I dont care for the car but holy sheet. The house is spectacular/

 

The stock forged Porto wheels are about 24 lbs for the rears. Doubt very much that design there is much lighter in a big wheel like a 12x22. Even ifcghey are 1-2 lbs lighter, you have still moved the radius of the barrel 1 inch out and there's a lot of weight in the barrel. So that pretty much offset what weight reduction is there. On top of that you add at least 7-9 lbs with those 335/25R22 shoes. I weighted a set of those tyres for a buddy putting the on a Lusso, and they were about 5 lbs heavier than the MPS4S 295/35R20.so would be very surprised if the smaller Porto rears weren't lighter. So no matter how you slice it, you add a lot of mass to the outer circumference of the wheel where it matters the most. And no matter the percentage, going from a diameter of 27.9" to 28.7" is significant in terms of how it affects the final drive ratio.

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Wheelb should let this thread die and start over on this forum. I think that he has learned his lesson.

 

Sound advice.
I also think it is worth remembering that the Porto/Cali market is very different than for example a Lambo driver looking for attention. Most who are into the whole chariot sized wheel thing, are usually more into flashy/shouty cars, so dealing with the Porto/Cali demographic is a bit different, than say an Aventador owner.

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I like the stripe but I'd go for the Italian tricolor vs the French.

 

photos don't look real. is it render or real photo?