With a naturally aspirated V-12, active suspension, and rear-hinged power rear doors, Ferrari's Purosangue is an anomaly in the sea of go-fast luxury SUVs.
At some point, a memo must have gone out. It decreed that all super-SUVs would hew to the same template: twin-turbo V-8, a torque-converter automatic transmission, and full-time all-wheel drive, all stuffed into a rakish but conventional four-door body. That's the formula as practiced by Mercedes-AMG, Porsche, Maserati, BMW, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, and Audi. Ferrari, though, didn't get the memo. Thus its first SUV,, uses a 715-hp naturally aspirated 6.
Since the Purosangue will be expected to handle some light off-road work, by which we mean climbing speed bumps in Bal Harbour, the suspension has a lift setting. But lifting the body requires the motors to stay powered up, so you can't drive around that way all day. In fact, the motors work hard enough in daily driving to require their own heat exchanger and cooling circuit.
That electric motor on the left powers a gear that spins a ball screw to drive the strut up or down near-instantaneously. The four motors are powerful enough to require their own cooling system.With its torque vectoring, active suspension, and four-wheel steering, the Purosangue manages to feel calm and planted on straightaways while retaining the ability to scythe into corners the moment you turn the wheel.
This phalanx of hardware and software operates so harmoniously that you're seldom reminded of the fiendish complexity operating behind the scenes, the ones and zeros flitting across all those wiring harnesses, the clutches slipping and gears engaging somewhere down below the floorpan at just the right moments. It all just jells into a big, fast car that seems to be good at everything.
The rear seats—which instantly clear the low bar of "best back seats ever in a Ferrari"—are accessed via power-operated rear-hinged doors that operate completely independently of the front doors. To open one from the outside, you pull and hold a small lever along the bottom of the window that will look familiar to anyone who's driven a Ford Mustang Mach-E, a cohort that evidently doesn't include anyone at Ferrari . A button on the B-pillar closes the doors.
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