As promised, I said I would put up a link to the article I recently wrote for Lusso Magazine and it is now live. Here is an extract on the NEW Ferrari 799 Mugello.
It’s a Lusso exclusive as far as I know and I’m happy to have written it. So check it out. Digg it, Stumble it. Tell all your friends, this could be big news!
During the last 20 years the car industry has seen an injection of SUVs from marques that, before, had spent their time honing sports cars and family cars. If you wanted a luxury 4×4 there was really only one place to look: the Range Rover. It still tops my ‘sought after’ list. However, a gap in the market was found and began to develop into a gaping chasm.
As such, many of the aforementioned marques started to build cars to fill this chasm. This luxury SUV Grand Canyon was so popular with consumers that even Land Rover released the Range Rover Sport.
In 2008, we now have a smorgasbord of luxury SUVs to choose from: BMW’s X5, Porsche’s Cayenne, the Range Rover Sport, Audi’s Q7, to name but a few. The model I want to draw your attention to is Porsche’s Cayenne. BMW had the 3, 5 and 7 series so they had done the family car for years. Porsche, on the other hand, had only managed a 2+2 in the shape of the 911, which was a great family car until your children grew past 4ft tall. This was what made the Cayenne the most surprising SUV I think. They strayed from their norm and, ignoring aesthetics, made a fantastically fast 4×4, which handled as well as most saloons.
If I may, at this point, scream a question many of you may be thinking, “…but what about the Italians?”
To read the full article, click here.
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