On The Wagon!

Ferrari’s FF replacement is curvy, curve friendly and oddly likeable!

- Shubhabrata Marmar

I tend to clench up when I am driving supercars. It is a reflex that I haven’t quite managed to shake off even after years of driving them intermittently. And that comes from having to take care of them as you drive. I’m never the chap likely to become the bumper car specialist. But speed breakers and potholes. I’m sweating just thinking about them. But the Ferrari GTC4Lusso has a calming effect on me. For one, when you slide into the luxurious cabin, you don’t fold yourself into a very low seat. Then you realise that you can actually see the corners of the bonnet ahead of you and finally that the car actually appears to have working suspension. Or at least suspension that understands passenger comfort in addition to a flat cornering stance and roll-resistance. Hmm. What kind of Ferrari is this?

Well, the chaps at Maranello have always liked to have a fast 4-seater in the range. The practical car, as it were. And despite how much the Mondial wagon was panned and joked about, the profile of the Lusso will silence all but the nit-pickiest. Unlike the FF, which it replaces, the Lusso’s vastly more curvy and desirable in that very specific Italian way. Some of it is in the details - like the twin round tail lamps. Some of it is in more functional tweaks like the wider intakes for the more powerful engine up front. But the bodywork takes the wagon form and makes it sexy in a way that the Scandinavians, the kings of estate hill, will never manage. The Lusso is a sexy estate bodied sportscar.