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    The Everyday Ferrari

    by Words Angus MacKenzie Mar 14, 2018 5 minutes

    More Ferrari Portofino

    Market research never created a great car.

    No one asked GM to build a Corvette or Ford a Mustang. The engineers and entrepreneurs who made cars that changed the world—Ettore Bugatti and Ferdinand Porsche, Henry Royce and André Citroën, to name but a few—built what they knew was right, not something shaped by the opinions of others. So what, then, are we to make of the 2019 Ferrari Portofino, the most market-researched new Ferrari in history?

    Deep breath … the Portofino is not a great Ferrari. Maranello’s newest GT joins a lineup that includes both the scintillating 488 GTB (our 2017 Best Driver’s Car) and the spectacular 812 Superfast, and it’s competing with a back catalog crammed with glories such as the 275those who want a fast and elegant, refined and luxuriously equipped 21st century they can drive 24/7.

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