2012 Ferrari FF: The Coolest Ferrari Ever—Drive Carefully | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil - WSJ.com

2012 Ferrari FF: The Coolest Ferrari Ever—Drive Carefully | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil - WSJ.com

Imagine the Alps, perfected. Each breath tastes of diamonds. Snow-laced massifs vault into a dark-blue sky and green hills cascade to the valleys below, a panoptic of edelweiss and immortality. Here the cowbells play Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" and busty women in over-tight dirndls repair the roads.

Now imagine all this upside down, flying past your windshield at 32 feet per second squared as you plunge to your picturesque Alpine death in the Ferrari FF. And everything was going so well.

While your four-seat, all-wheel-drive, 651-horsepower, $300,000 grand touring car paints a target on some snowy roof far below, your mind will be processing quickly. Did I let the cat out? What is Berlusconi's problem, anyway? And how, exactly, did this happen? Alas, the last thing to go through your mind is the fitted luggage. Slurg!

But as to the last question: You are a victim of irrational exuberance.

You want my snap verdict on the new FF? Fine. This is absolutely the coolest Ferrari of all time, "cool" insofar as it delivers brain-solvent performance without looking like it gives a damn what you think Click for Full Article & Images ..