Ferrari has made it lighter, marginally more space efficient and what not but the real talking point is just how beautifully it’s been integrated with the rest of the body. However, on damp roads, the opening also throws up muck, so perhaps its best you don’t save your Portofino for a rainy day.Īs for the roof, it’s a metal unit like the California’s but now opens/closes in all of 14 seconds and at speeds up to 40kph. What you can’t miss is the prominent vent at the sides that are there to channel air from the wheel arches along the body sides. Look closely and you’ll spot an air curtain beside the L-shaped headlights and there’s the minutest of ridges at the rear end to aid downforce at the back. The Portofino has its aero-aiding elements too, but the treatment is subtler. To my eyes at least, the Portofino is more a thing of beauty than the Ferraris of late (La Ferrari aside) whose designs appear primarily dictated by how effectively they’ll cut through the air. I don’t know if it was the car’s shape or the mere fact that it was a Ferrari, but the Portofino garnered its share of smiles and thumbs-ups on our route in southern Italy. It’s sexy, seductive, and in this exclusive shade of ‘Portofino Rosso’, just eye-catching. Where the California had its odd angles – that enormous rear for one – the Portofino looks like a Ferrari should. It’s a pity that pictures don’t quite do justice to the Portofino. The Portofino is here to take the story forward. As an introduction to the brand, the California did rather well 70 percent of buyers were first-time Ferrari owners. And, like the California it replaces, the Portofino is also the entry point to the Ferrari range. Like the California it replaces, the Portofino is a 2+2 GT with a clever folding hard-top.
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