IT’S the car they said they’d never make at Maranello. Yet here it is, Ferrari’s brand-new SUV – all 715bhp, £313,000 and 2.2 tonnes of it.
Except, according to Ferrari, the Purosangue isn’t an SUV at all. Instead it’s a “four-seater, four-door sports car” that just so happens to be four-wheel drive and has a centre of gravity several inches higher than any other Ferrari in history.
It also has a hatchback tailgate opening in place of a traditional boot, two back seats, and although its rear doors do open rather intriguingly – they hinge forwards, not backwards, to give a “uniquely welcoming entry experience”, according to theirdesigners – the packaging isn’t great. The boot, for instance, is luxuriantly trimmed, but also unusually small for an SUV. Not that the Purosangue is an SUV, remember.
