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DINOSAUR

Modern ergonomics have a lot to answer for. All that time worrying about having your neck curving in an anatomically correct direction and being the same shape at the end of a journey as when you started. All nonsense, really. My head is canted at a slight angle, my spine kinked the opposite way, my feet draped on yet another bearing to account for offset pedals. The gearstick, ball-topped, evocative chrome wand that it is, is conveniently close, but that’s a function of a cabin that is, by modern standards, on the crippling side of cosy. Welcome to an authentic Ferrari Dino experience if you’re anything over 5ft 10in. And yet… I don’t care.

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