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Ferrari’s V8 Lusso T — purity rather than theatrics
It looks exactly like the V12 but Ferrari insists the rear-drive V8 Lusso T is an entirely new model, writes Michael Taylor
If you’ve watched Ferrari carefully over the past couple of years, you’d have seen more or less every piece of design and technology in the GTC4 Lusso T before. You’ve just never seen them all together in one car. The front-mounted, V8 twin-turbo 3.9l engine and its transaxle, with the seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and the E.diff inside, are closely related to the California T’s powertrain. The bodyshell and aluminium architecture, interior and suspension layout are all obviously aligned with the V12-powered GTC4Lusso. Ferrari, protected from conventional rules by its Maranello bubble, is so insistent that the GTC4Lusso T is an all-new model (and definitely not an entry GTC4Lusso model) that it repeated this eight times in one 10-minute presentation, then four times more over dinner. Someone should have told the people in charge of badges, because just sticking a "T" on the end of the GTC4Lusso’s badge doesn’t convincingly send a message it’s an all-new car. Ferrari is keen t...
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