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Road Test: 2012 Ferrari FF
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Ferraris can be many maddening things, including pricey, mechanically petulant and prone to in-shop sojourns that cost more than, well, some new cars. But one thing they have been unfailingly is beautiful. With most bodies sculpted by Pininfarina, a Michelangelo of sheetmetal, Ferrari coupes can make a dusty Afghan backroad seem like the Champs-Elysee.
So it is quite the event to have a new Ferrari model greeted with the equivalent of cat calls for its looks. That's the case with the new Ferrari FF, a $300,000-and-up two-door, four-seat family machine whose pre-release photos had many Ferraristi wailing in discontent and contemplating a new protest movement called Occupy Maranello.
The issue in a nutshell: to accommodate adults in the rear bucket seats, Pininfarina stylists extended the roof on this 12-cylinder brute, creating a car that looks not unlike BMW's hatchback-y M Coupe, only infinitely larger. That image danced in my head as I waited for an FF to slide out from behind the garage door at Ferrari of San Francisco, which had just taken delivery of its demo model.
