While supercars quickly start to get hot, cumbersome, and heavy in traffic, the Roma is compliant and comfortable. That’s because “the real world” is where the Roma feels at home. In the real world, you needn’t have any more power, and this recipe makes perfect sense for the Roma. For the Roma, the manufacturer has developed a 3.9-liter twin-turbocharged V8 that produces a healthy 612 HP and 561 lb-ft of torque, resulting in a 0-62 MPH time of 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 199 MPH. Here’s how it squares up against its competition.įerrari is renowned for its engines and handling. ![]() ![]() We’ve previously put the Roma’s rivals – the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera and Bentley Continental GT Speed – through their paces in identical situations, and we finally got our hands on the last part of this gran turismo holy trinity. It’s not trying to be a rip-your-face-off 812 Superfast or a track-focused lightweight lap record setter – the Roma is all about indulging in the sweet life, driving through the Italian hills, or in our case, escaping London for weekend excursions to wet and twisty British backroads, aka Hypebeast’s proven testing grounds for Open Road. The Roma is la dolce vita: it embodies the very essence of what makes a car, such as this, desirable. Heck, if you were given the keys to a Ferrari that looked like it was sculpted from Venetian marble for the weekend, we doubt you’d scoff at it being the baby of the family.Īnd Ferrari knows this. Despite being at the lower quarter of the marque’s roster, sitting alongside the Portofino M and recently-released Roma Spider, there’s little about the Roma that feels entry-level.
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