The GTC4Lusso is, until the Purosangue arrives, the most practical Prancing Horse you’ll find.
Available as a four-wheel drive or rear-wheel drive, V12 or V8, and shooting brake styling, it’s a bonafide verastile Winter Wagon, too.
It replaced the FF, a car so good that when ‘Big’ John Surtees was lent one by Ferrari to drive to Reims in France he couldn’t bear to give it back.
So he bought it.
The sporting credentials matched with capacious interior and sublime roadholding won over the only man to win the world championship on two and four wheels.
And the recipe remained largely the same when the FF was swapped for the Lusso in 2016. The styling improved to really evoke the 250GTO, and the optional twin-turbo V8 that was later introduced made perhaps the ultimate compromise: better efficiency, better torque, a lighter front end and rear-drive only.
It is one of these that will be on Winter Wagons at the Scramble on Sunday 8 January.
Frugality is not the first word for Ferraris, but practicality is key to a winter wagon. That V8, borrowed from the 488 and bettered, offers 30% more out of a tank of fuel than the V12 version. Ferrari says it is the most agile and fun-to-drive Ferrari four-seater ever.
And therefore surely the most agile and fun-to-drive winter wagon ever?
See it in the metal at the Scramble. Book the last of the tickets now.
