The Story
Replacement for the Roma Spider promises not only more speed, but extra refinement and, ahem, stability.
We dubbed it Honey Mountain. Ferrari’s events team, whose carefully prescribed route we plain ignored, would probably have dubbed it the arse end of nowhere.
But in this game, sometimes you have to take a punt on an unsolicited location-pin fired over by snapper Jack Harrison at midnight. It’s how you end up on a spellbinding Greek pass the next morning, gleefully climbing ever higher in what is, in all objective ways, the least serious car in Ferrari’s expansive modern day line-up.
We’re in Greece for the media launch of the new AmalfiSpider. It costs £227,000 and is the rag-top version of Ferrari’s entry-level Amalfi coupe. If you didn’t know better, you might have thought it damned with faint praise in last night’s uncharacteristically concise technical presentation at the hotel. It was described by engineers as being “as…
Why It Matters
This becomes obvious when you notice the identical claimed dry weight of 1556kg for Roma and Amalfi Spiders.
CarMotion Daily’s Take
It’s how you end up on a spellbinding Greek pass the next morning, gleefully climbing ever higher in what is, in all objective ways, the least serious car in Ferrari’s expansive modern day line-up. Watch this space over the coming weeks.
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