We visit Ferrari’s Centro Stile in Maranello to see the Purosangue—the Italian manufacture’s first four-door, four-seater car—in the flesh
Ferrari has unveiled its very first four-door, four-seater car on its 75th anniversary. It goes by the name Purosangue, which in Italian means thoroughbred. It is an all-new, standalone production platform with a complete catalogue of bespoke parts for its manufacture.
Ferrari has waited this long not just to study the market, but to ensure they had all the right technologies to deliver an uncompromised sportscar, not a SUV. They expect the Purosangue to not just cater to Ferraristas, but to attract clients from outside its fold as well.
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Back in 1980, they dabbled with a concept car called the Ferrari Pinin, a luxury four-door saloon, in the same vein as the Maserati Quattroporte back in the day. Ferrari shelved the project because it did not meet the standard of what it takes to wear the Ferrari badge. They simply did not have the technology back then.
By the end of the previous decade, several things fell into place and Ferrari was now sure they could pull this off. The rise of the SUV market gave the project added impetus after watching their competitors do well. Both in-house technology and styling genius came together to make this a viable option.
Also, it was inevitable that a genuine four-door, four-seater Ferrari should exist as their clientele voted for it en masse. Ferrari refuses to call the Purosangue a SUV and refers to it as a sportscar in the same way the GTC4Lusso is a sportscar, but it rides with significantly higher ground clearance than your typical Ferrari although is not designed to be an off-road vehicle.
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