MOTOR Magazine Australia

FORZA FUTURE

LATE EVENING IN MARANELLO. The sun has long packed up and gone home for the night but Michael Leiters is still hard at work. You get the impression that’s not unusual as he strides in to meet MOTOR, wearing a suit as sharp as his inexplicably enormous sideburns and apologising for being late.

As chief technology officer since January 2014 at one of the planet’s more technologically adventurous automotive companies, Leiters has plenty on his plate. Imminently, there’s the Purosangue, Ferrari’s first SUV. Then there’s the SF90, its first

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