Introducing the Ferrari Roma
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Introducing the Ferrari Roma
Over 600 horsepower is on tap
There’s a new Ferrari in town, and it’s called the Roma. Take a second to enjoy the few photos Ferrari shared with us for the time being. It’s a gorgeous two-door coupe.
Unfortunately, Ferrari hasn’t said much beyond the car’s vitals yet. We know it’s equipped with the 3.9-liter twin-turbo V8, which is paired to the eight-speed dual-clutch transmission found in the SF90 Stradale. The boosted V8 is sitting at 611 horsepower and 561 pound-feet of torque. Ferrari says it’ll get to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed somewhere just north of 198 mph.
Its wheelbase is exactly the same as the California T at 105.1 inches, but it’s slightly longer overall by a few inches. The car’s dry weight is quoted at 3,245 pounds, which makes it lighter than the California T convertible. We’re guessing the cars sharea similar platform, but Ferrari doesn’t make that clear in its rather sparse release.
The car is described as a “2+ coupé,” so a nearly unusable set of rear seats is likely behind the two front seats seen in the one interior photo. We’ve asked Ferrari for further clarification here. As for the rest of the interior, it looks like a revolution in technology and design. We spy a completely new infotainment system and center stack layout, and the gauge cluster is all digital, as well. Plenty of touch capacitive buttons appear to have made their way into the cabin, and we’re especially confused by the operation of the strange gear selector just below the central infotainment system (pictured below). Just like other new Ferraris, the passenger has a screen directly in front of them, too. It’s a good looking interior; we just want to know more about it.
Ferrari says it’s called “Roma” to represent the “carefree, pleasurable way of life that characterized Rome in the 1950s and ‘60s.”
More details coming soon
Unfortunately, Ferrari hasn’t said much beyond the car’s vitals yet. We know it’s equipped with the 3.9-liter twin-turbo V8, which is paired to the eight-speed dual-clutch transmission found in the SF90 Stradale. The boosted V8 is sitting at 611 horsepower and 561 pound-feet of torque. Ferrari says it’ll get to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed somewhere just north of 198 mph.
Its wheelbase is exactly the same as the California T at 105.1 inches, but it’s slightly longer overall by a few inches. The car’s dry weight is quoted at 3,245 pounds, which makes it lighter than the California T convertible. We’re guessing the cars sharea similar platform, but Ferrari doesn’t make that clear in its rather sparse release.
The car is described as a “2+ coupé,” so a nearly unusable set of rear seats is likely behind the two front seats seen in the one interior photo. We’ve asked Ferrari for further clarification here. As for the rest of the interior, it looks like a revolution in technology and design. We spy a completely new infotainment system and center stack layout, and the gauge cluster is all digital, as well. Plenty of touch capacitive buttons appear to have made their way into the cabin, and we’re especially confused by the operation of the strange gear selector just below the central infotainment system (pictured below). Just like other new Ferraris, the passenger has a screen directly in front of them, too. It’s a good looking interior; we just want to know more about it.
Ferrari says it’s called “Roma” to represent the “carefree, pleasurable way of life that characterized Rome in the 1950s and ‘60s.”
More details coming soon
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^^ sure there are some similarities especially the interior design, but honestly there's only so many ways to design a front-engined RWD sports-car with a long hood 
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Agreed. And, admittedly, it's getting harder and harder to design something truly original these days. No matter what you do, you're likely to copy somebody, somewhere....or something that has been done before.
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"We want to transmit this idea of harmony, and a beautiful dynamic in balance," said Ferrari head of design Flavio Manzioni. "The front is prominent, is wrap-around, giving a lot of tension to the car. The cabin is very compact, sitting on the rear wheel. This was one of the characteristics of these beautiful Ferrari GTs in the '50s and the '60s, when we were really dictating the principals of beauty all over the world, and showing how is the Italian taste, in terms of not only cars but in general, in terms of aesthetics."
More than a bit of 275GTB and Daytona can be seen in the overall profile, but, as usual. Ferrari denies any retro cues or heritage inspiration in any of its designs.
More than a bit of 275GTB and Daytona can be seen in the overall profile, but, as usual. Ferrari denies any retro cues or heritage inspiration in any of its designs.