The interior changes aren’t as comprehensive, with new seats improving the driving position and allowing you to sit lower in the car while feeling you are sat in it rather than on it. They now also include that air scarf system that breathes warm air on your neck for when the roof's down in cold weather. The Roma’s more sweeping and tech-heavy dash hasn’t been installed, with only a new touchscreen infotainment system part of this upgrade.
What you will notice is the new Manettino control on the steering wheel, which now includes a Race and ESC OFF setting accompanying Wet, Comfort and Sport. Race features a toned-down version of Ferrari’s Slip Slide Control - called Ferrari Dynamic Enhancer - that is designed to provide the Portofino M with an increased level of precision at the limit.Dig deeper beneath the new body and you’ll also find a new eight-speed gearbox replacing the existing seven-speed unit.
Revised spring and damper settings and new bushes accompany the adaptive dampers to provide a ride and balance to suit a GT car rather than an out-and-out supercar, although the rear spring rate remains higher than that of the Roma due to the increased weight over the rear axle with the Portofino.
Turn the dial to Sport, depress the magical bumpy road damper button on the steering wheel and select manual for the gearbox and the Portofino M begins to fizz between your fingertips. It was never short of grunt but its responses when pushed are now genuine Ferrari in how it gathers pace and how quickly it does so, your preconceptions of this being a Ferrari-lite left someway behind as you summon another gear to extinguish the shift lights.
Its chassis can handle it, too. It corners with a flatness that belies its shape - from some angles it has a look of a car that’s more likely to roll around a corner rather than cut a clean path through it - and it summons levels of grip and precision that are wholly unexpected.
More refined then a 911 turbo? Now I know you're lying
Exactly
That picture doesn’t do it justice, remove the badges and it could be a modern Chrysler Le Baron
Aero has ruined the shape of cars.
It's gorgeous, especially in that colour
Too many chunks carved out of it, just for the sake of it. Form over function ?
It looks fat and ugly.
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