BLESSED IS THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
ROAD SERIES Number 12
BEAUTY IS ALL very well, but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” Given that he died in 1950, it’s safe to say that George Bernard Shaw never had pause to consider the Ferrari Roma. Arguably Maranello’s prettiest car since Donato Coco’s 458 Italia of 2010, the Roma pares its adornment back to something almost sculptural and I don’t see how you could ever conceive of getting bored of it. But then what do I know? Bernard Shaw won a Nobel Prize in Literature. I won a Scalextric set as an eight-year-old.
As much as the Roma is undoubtedly captivating to behold, here at MOTOR we’ve been even more intrigued regarding its capacity to hold the attention of keen drivers. Ferrari has positioned the car as a junior GT and, as such, hasn’t released a Fiorano lap time for it nor promised anything in the way of more focused variants in the future. Yet so heady are the dynamic abilities of its mid-engined sports cars that we were curious
