Portofino HS Option?

It showed up in the 2016 models later in the year IIRC. So that is like the 18 month point I guess. I first saw one in the spring of 2016.

 

You know, if I had my time again, and hadn't been worried about re-sale, I wouldn't have ordered the HS option on our Cali T.
I never drove the non HS version so am only comparing it to the Lusso T I have now.
The HS was too loud for where I kept in in a London apartment block (complaint emails from neighbors)
The suspension was too hard for the poor surface rural roads around my Devon house.
The gear box was "all at sea" maneuvering around the (very slow speed) narrow lanes between the main roads and said house.
None of the above made me think it was a bad car, We had some great times, just that I didn't do enough of the kind of miles on the kind of roads that the HS set up would have been perfect for. I had taken an all rounder and made it focused for a kind of driving I wasn't doing.
So if the pattern is repeated and a "harder core" version is offered I would advise Portofino owners to ask themselves if any HS kit is really right for them.

 

^ Good points, Graham...T