The 2021 Ferrari Roma Is Ferrari’s New $250,000 Entry-Level Coupe

This is the

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Ferrari Roma and it is the newest model in the Ferrari range. It is also the cheapest model in the Ferrari range. The

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Ferrari with a starting price of only around 220,000. It also heralds the arrival of a new generation of Ferrari interior and technology. and today I'm going to check out Rome and show you everything before we start. Be sure to check out the cars and bids which is my enthusiast car auction website. We have recently had very successful sales of some exotic sports cars, including this Ferrari. 458 that sold for 155 thousand dollars this bmw z8 that sold for 185 000 and this mclaren 720s that sold for 215 000.

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is based on the portofino, but it's not just a

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version, it's completely styled different and a totally new interior with the latest Ferrari technology.

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and portofino share an engine through a 3.9 liter turbo v8 that is also shared with the f-8, but in the f-8 it generates 710 horsepower, in this car it only generates 610 horsepower , not that 610 horsepower is anything to complain about. Because the Roma is so fast, it will go from zero to 60 in 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed of just under 200 miles per hour. It also represents the latest expansion in Ferrari's lineup, which now includes six different models, including the soon-to-be-released gtc4. Lusso anyway, today I'm going to review the Roma and show you all the quirks and features of the latest Ferrari, then I'll take it out on the road and see how it drives and then of course I'll give it a try.

A score from Doug, okay. I'm going to start the quirks and features of the blunt with the key, which is this leather rectangle that says Roma on the bottom and it looks very elegant and luxurious. Previous Ferrari keys were brightly colored, maybe a little brighter. distinctive, but I guess they've abandoned it, although I heard there's an option in Roma for the back of the key to be a full color Ferrari badge, although this particular Roma doesn't have that option, but you do get this. luxury leather key with two buttons, they're not really buttons, just kind of pads on the key where now you can press the top one, if you press it it unlocks the doors, if you press it twice it opens the trunk and from that This way you've combined two functions into one button, so you can keep the key relatively free of the clutter of multiple buttons, but if you want, you can also avoid using the key altogether by walking to the car with the key in your pocket and walk up to the door handle press this little front part and that will unlock the doors if they are closed or if you want to walk away you can press that and that will lock the doors if they were unlocked so you can use that on the side. of the car instead of the key fob now, as for the door handle to open the doors, you just put your hand in this back part of the door handle, you can see it opens and then you just pull the door and it it opens like a normal door handle, but anyway, then we get into the roma and the first thing you notice when you come in here is that there's a picture of the romas going around in the gauge cluster, which is a screen, you've got this futuristic roma blue. like it spins like it's on a rotating pedestal and that's the first indication that this is going to be very different from other Ferrari models because other Ferraris don't have a big gauge cluster display like you see on this car in the moment when you go up inside. and in fact, this has a brand new generation Ferrari interior with brand new technology, it's debuting in this car and there are a lot of quirks and features to show you.

I'll start here with another quirk that you will notice the moment you get inside and that would be The engine start/stop control on the steering wheel is not a physical button like basically every other car, but is part of this screen on the center of the steering wheel, just press with your thumb and that starts the engine so you don't. You don't turn the key, you don't press a button, you're pressing a screen to start the engine, like I said, brand new interior, new technology which is definitely something new, but as much as you might think, an integrated engine start/stop button on a screen is an interesting idea, get ready, this car has screen based controls, there are very few traditional buttons and switches anywhere in this interior, for example even the rear view mirrors are controlled with a screen on the left of the steering wheel, you have this. small capacitive touch screen, you touch it to select the mirror and then you can adjust the position of the mirror also using the screen.

Ferrari has abandoned traditional joystick mirror control and now even changing the position of the mirror on a new Ferrari is done with a screen. The same thing happens there with the headlights that you can see that are on a screen and your parking sensors and parking cameras. It's all screen-based, like many controls in this car, and the screen controls go on and are in some unusual places, for example the cruise controls. they're on a screen mounted on one of the steering wheel spokes, you can see them here again, a capacitive touch screen, you press something and then it turns on the cruise control.

Interestingly, these buttons only light up when they are active, so if you have the car parked or if you have the door open or if you just haven't touched them for a few seconds, they will dim to minimize the number of controls that are illuminated and looking directly at you. your face and that way your cruise controls don't have to become obvious unless you're touching them and want to use them; Otherwise they're hidden and out of place - that's a benefit of the screen, although it takes a while to get used to not having physical controls.

For some of these obvious things like the cruise controls, but the interior screen controls are far from the strangest controls in the new Ferrari Roma, that honor probably goes to the gear selector situation right here in the middle, It is intended to imitate the look of an old man. closed school manual shifter, but this car has an automatic, it just looks like something Ferrari did in the past, bringing back some manual heritage, but this is not a manual, rather the way it works is that You have three levers and they all go up or down. the doors that are designed to resemble the appearance of the manual shift lever for example on the bottom left you can push the lever down and shift into reverse and then you are in reverse and an interesting thing here when you actually select reverse you can look at this little line shooting up to the r to confirm that's what you're doing, it looks cool and it's the same with all the other things in between, you have a and m for auto and manual again.

Move the lever and you can see the little line that shoots towards a or m and on the right it has ps which means electric start which is Ferrari's version of launch control and it's the same thing, move the lever up and you can activate the power. start if you meet all the conditions, so in the center there is an automatic transmission that imitates a closed gear lever, a very strange retro transmission style decision and there are other extravagant controls in this car, for example, go back to the steering wheel and it has a little red. turn on here, you can use it to adjust the driving mode of the car and there are different colors around the switch which belong to different driving modes, for example, if you turn it to blue, it is in wet mode, you can also switch to green, which It's comfort, you have sport and also race and you just adjust the position of the switch and then you are in the different driving modes.

Next, another quite peculiar control here is the vents to move them, don't they. You can see anything like that in your car, you have this big piece of plastic in the middle of the vent, you can move it up, down, left, right, it's kind of weird, but that's how you move through the vents in the car. new Ferrari Roma. Very distinctive control like almost everything else and there are still even more extravagant controls to discuss here. I want to get back behind the wheel and now I want to talk about the controls behind the wheel, which you can't even.

Look, on the left spoke, behind the radio, you have a small dial that is used to adjust the volume of your stereo. You can turn it up or down and then change the volume. Now underneath, still on the steering wheel, facing forward, you have some headlight controls. Behind here you have a hidden control, a button mounted here that allows you to turn on the lights so you can touch this little hidden button on the back of the steering wheel and then turn on the high beams temporarily, another hidden control on the steering wheel. Next, another rather strange control on the steering wheel is this little dial on the right side that allows you to turn on the wipers.

You can see now that it's at zero, it turns off if you turn it to automatic or I can keep turning it and manually turn on the wipers. There is no windshield wiper on this car, instead it is mounted on the steering wheel like so many other quirky controls and finally, probably the most peculiar steering wheel control, whose honor goes to the turn signals which are also not controlled. with a turn signal like in almost every other car, instead you have little thumb buttons mounted on top of the center part of the steering wheel, you press them and they turn the turn signal on and off, that's how you signal while It is very unusual to drive instead of pressing a stalk to the left side, although I must say that you get used to it quickly and they are within reach of your thumb and it is worth noting that this is why Ferrari puts so many things on the steering wheel They want everything to be within reach of the driver, so if you're in a high-performance driving situation on the race track, you don't have to take your hand off the wheel to turn on the wipers or do anything else, that's fine.

It's within easy reach so you can keep your hands on the wheel and continue driving safely, but probably the most important new component here is the display for the gauge cluster behind the wheel. Here again you have this huge screen much better, much better. Compared to previous Ferrari models that only had small screens that were difficult to control, you now have a huge full screen gauge cluster like other modern cars have and you control it on the steering wheel with this little thing that looks like a touchpad and you can move your thumb around. You can press it and click or you can just move up, down, left to right, that's how you control all of those screens in the gauge cluster, so you might be wondering what we have on these gauge cluster screens, right on the center, you can see as always your tachometer, a hallmark of Ferrari for a long time, the center mounted tachometer, now on the right you have a sort of main information screen, the most important thing that you have up top and that you are currently looking at as big as possible and on top of that on the On the left, you have two types of smaller screens that still provide information, but not a huge amount of information, just a quick, summary glance.

The good thing is that you can configure this screen so you can choose what you want to see on this screen. gauge cluster, if you have it in this view you can slide your thumb left or right to choose what is displayed on the main information screen on the right, you can have the navigation information or other elements of the car like want and interestingly when you slide your thumb to shift it makes a strange sound when you change what it shows, listen, but you can also completely change the display on this giant screen if you press the maximum display button on the steering wheel, which by the way It sounds like some kind of payment. channel by display that you want to prevent your kids from seeing, but if you press view maximum, you can see that it totally changes the gauge cluster display and now shows a full screen view of whatever information screen you're viewing, so I have a map in full screen right now, but if I press view max again it changes and gives me a different full screen view or I can press it again and go back to the default view with the speedometer and tachometer in the center so you have several different settings in this group of gauges again, a huge technological advance over previous Ferrari models, so that's the gauge cluster display, which isnew.

Next, let's move on to the central infotainment screen, which is also new and not as impressive as the screen in the gauge cluster. I say this on the one hand because it is relatively small, many cars have larger central screens, but this is the newest Ferrari interior, quite a small screen and not as responsive as you might think, but some cars are just quick with the answers to your Touch this, you have to think about it a bit, it's not entirely perfect and frankly, today's consumers demand something perfect because many devices, smartphones and cars offer a more responsive experience, but the real problem with this touch screen Central is that the climate controls are integrated into this screen.

That is, if you want to change the fan speed on this car, you have to tap the temperature control at the bottom of the screen and then you have to tap the fan speed you want to change to, that's a little complicated and distracting. m aBig fan of touchscreens, I like the fact that they pack a lot of controls and information into a relatively small area inside, but I don't like it when they make it more complicated to perform simple, normal, ordinary tasks, such as Simply change the fan speed. In most cars, that means just turning a dial; in this two step process using the screen is not really that ideal and it's the same story with heated seats, you can't just press a button to turn them on, you have to enter the screen select the seat heating and then turn it on, just It makes it more complicated unnecessarily, but this car is all about controls on a screen, that said there are a few things I like about this infotainment system, one is the ability to program a new ride, you tap this new icon tour and you're using the navigation system not to set a destination, but to start a trip with your friends through some canyons, so it's easy to set waypoints or paths that you might want.

Traveling the road is like an actual tour you'll take in the car as a trip and makes it easier to map out a trip rather than just setting a destination and going as quickly as possible. Another thing that I like in the infotainment system, there are all the seat controls, if you want to move the seat forward or backward or move the backrest, of course you have controls on the side of the seat like basically every other car, but if you want to do many others There are movements on the screen and you can adjust all sorts of little things on the seat precisely to what you want to make your journey as comfortable as possible and I like how easy it is, it's much easier than trying to find out what there is a little button on the side of the car, instead, on the screen, it shows you exactly what you are adjusting and makes it easy to adjust, and I like that next we look at some other interesting interior elements for one if you want to go out.

It doesn't have a traditional door latch to get out, instead there is a button to open the door, press the button and that's how you get out of the roma. It's also worth noting that you only get one cupholder here, it's right in the center and you put your baby in and that's it, there aren't two cupholders for the driver and passenger, you only get one, so you'll have to decide which drink is more important and another interesting quirk of the Roma's interior: it has rear seats, yes, that's right, this tiny little teardrop shape. The sports car has back seats and as usual, as I always do, I'm now going to get into them, which I'm seriously not looking forward to.

These really have to be some of the smallest back seats in the entire automotive industry. The front seat has to travel very very forward for it to be possible to get in and now that it has I'm going to try to get in and now I'm sitting here I can't put my head higher than this I can't put my legs in There's no way for the seat to retract back to its place. These back seats are very small, maybe the smallest back seats I've seen in any car, but it does have back seats, so if you're looking for a practical vehicle, you can at least say that's the case, but anyway, a Next I want to talk about the exterior of the Aroma, starting with the taillights.

For several years now, Ferrari has had a sort of four circular taillights, two on each side, this has a more modern version. two on each side, but the circles have disappeared, you have a more modern horizontal shape and when you put on the turn signal you can see another modernized element back here, the turn signals are these thin horizontal LED strips, very small and that leave a lot of the The old school circle is seen on previous Ferrari models, now it's interesting when braking in Rome, you can also see a similar theme here, thin horizontal strips, although the brake lights have two horizontal strips, while the turn signal I only had one now, interesting thing.

What happens is what happens when you have the turn signal on but you put the brakes on the brake lights, you turn on the turn signals and then you change from one horizontal bar to two horizontal bars, I guess it tells you that the brakes are on but they are still flashing. so you just have more turn signal when you hit the brakes, a weird little quirk of the Romas, but you'll notice it if you see one driving around, but anyway there's more to cover back here, I want to talk about the trunk, I'll open it. by pressing the remote control twice in a row and then the trunk opens and you can open it from there.

The trunk is a bit interesting on this car, for one thing it's quite small, not a very big trunk for a GT car, frankly. I'd be willing to trade those useless rear seats for more trunk space. I think that would make the car more practical since you're never going to use the back seats anyway. You want a bigger trunk, but that's not what they've done here. However, the most interesting part of the trunk is that it has no wall in the back to keep things from sliding around, so if you park on a steep slope or in a driveway and open the trunk, your things come out the back.

Bumpers, it seems like some kind of strange oversight. Cars have been made with trunks for years and no one really screws this up, but it's a strange thing to see here, but anyway, below are some other interesting quirks and features on the trunk. On the inside of the trunk lid you have a little plate that lets you know what options you've chosen on this car and you can see like your vin, the color, the name of your options, all those kinds of things that will make it easier In the future find out exactly how this car is specified.

Also under the boot lift floor you have your usual Ferrari tool kit, which includes some fuses and various tools you might need to fix your Ferrari on the side of the road, which you won't get. You also have a Ferrari screwdriver here and yes it is Ferrari brand which makes it cooler than a normal screwdriver and of course the other thing you have here is the exhaust you have four big exhaust tips here and when you accelerate . the engine sounds pretty good, listen to it, yes it sounds good, but it's not an old school naturally aspirated v8, you can tell the sound is a little muffled, this car has a 3.9 liter turbo v8, but at Despite the lack of sound compared to older Ferrari models they still offer excellent figures, 610 horsepower, something like 560 pound-feet of torque, 0-60, 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 199 miles per hour, everything very strong and, since we are talking about the engine, you can also see that it is quite assembled. way back in this engine bay behind the front wheels to get it as close to the center of the car as possible to minimize understeer so you don't have a giant, heavy engine hanging over the front wheels, they do a good job of that. quite set back even though the car has a long front end and let's talk about that long front end for a second and the overall overall styling of this car, frankly, I like it, I think it's a beautiful car, gorgeous from every angle, it looks really good. the back the front is all very clean, it flows like a beautiful tear it looks great I'm just not sure it's a

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it's not the most distinctive design it looks like an aston martiny maybe an f-type-y jaguar but no necessarily a distinctive Ferrari so I would say This car is beautifully shaped, very well designed but it's not the kind of thing that when you look at it you say Ferrari like you do with an F8 or some of the other models, it looks good but It's not that distinctive, so those are the quirks and features. of the new

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roma now it's time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives driving the roma the latest ferrari the first thing i noticed when driving this car is something i have heard in several different reviews of it, two things actually, number one, it's easy to drive, sit here, it's pretty quiet, in fact you have a lot of space, this is not like the ferraris of yesteryear which are difficult, it's designed to be a more accessible sort of affordable gt style ferrari, like a 911 turbo.

Ferrari style, so it has to be a slightly more rational car and it feels that way. The other thing you notice is that it's comfortable, surprisingly comfortable, even in a Portofino, you get in and it has a pretty hard ride and you think yeah. I could do this daily, but you know it's not a Lexus or anything, this car feels more comfortable than any other Ferrari I've driven. To be completely honest, that's not to say it's not fun to drive, and in fact, it's quite the opposite. You can feel that the power is tremendously available. I know a lot of people don't like this powertrain because of the way it sounds, but I've now driven this engine in the Portofino F8 and in this car and, frankly, I think it's great.

It has fantastic power delivery, it feels wonderfully powerful, it seems to me that there are two ways to make a turbo engine these days, automakers screw it up and put too much lag or automakers do it right and they feel like engines naturally aspirated. but with the benefits of a turbo and this is this car has the turbo engine probably better fuel economy emissions but it still feels, I mean, you just hit the accelerator and you go really fast, really, really, a fast car and I want to stress that even though this is the basic GT Ferrari, it runs as you would expect from a Ferrari, makes the right sounds and, oh, is it as fast as it needs to be to be a real Ferrari.

Escape could scapegoat this car like they did with the original California, but no one will if they've driven one. This thing has incredibly fast to drive, an incredibly responsive powertrain, and tremendously sharp steering right the moment you start turning, it's just that these cars have gotten so good it's so interesting, yes, an F8 is a car. awesome and blah blah but this car is already the craziest car anyone could have thought of just a few years ago and now it's the base model that people will say is the cheap Ferrari, well if this is the base model sign me up.

I like it now. You can listen very quietly here because Start Stop turns itself off. At the traffic light, you can turn it off and it comes back on. Even 600-horsepower Ferraris aren't immune to fuel-saving technology. I'm sorry to hear that some governments might require start and stop and make it indestructible very soon, which means that your cars, all cars will turn off at traffic lights, including these ones that are now talking about stopping. The lights when you sit here are pretty quiet, you don't hear much outside, I think that's one of the most impressive things, obviously the way it drives is impressive, but you don't hear much outside, others cars, it feels like a luxury car, silent.

You can hear the engine here, of course, as you would want from a Ferrari, but that's it. I don't hear cars passing by like that. The driving experience is totally Ferrari. It drives how you want. It is a more restrained car, but you can. Make it as exciting and crazy and cruel as any other Ferrari, it feels fantastic, but I think what falls short is, frankly, the design, which is funny because it's a beautiful design, so you have a beautiful design, a beautiful experience. Excellent driving, how's that? Is that a problem? Well the answer is that it just doesn't look Ferrari enough and it's kind of funny because when I heard about this car I assumed they would make an

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Ferrari look very Ferrari but maybe it didn't have the drive. experience, well they have done the opposite, they have given you a Ferrari driving experience, but it looks like an F type, but you think people paying for the entry level would want to see more than the handling, that being said of course, Question, would it be me?

Understand, the answer is no, not because I don't like it, not because it's not good, but because I think thatI would rather have the portofino. I don't really understand the benefit of this car, the portofino also has a hardtop, it is a hardtop. convertible but it gives you the opportunity to put the top down and at least here in Southern California that's a big deal and in a lot of the country, Texas, Florida, you want a convertible, especially if it's your fun, cool weekend car. week, and that's the

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Ferrari Roma. Ferrari's newest model, like all Ferraris, this is a special car and it's expanding the ever-growing Ferrari brand to reach more buyers. this car is expensive but the performance is great the styling is beautiful and the new technology is great too and now it's time to Give the Roma a score from Doug starting with the weekend categories and the styling of the Roma is beautiful, gorgeous, very attractive, but for me it's a bit reminiscent of Aston Martin or Jaguar and gets an 8 out of 10.

Acceleration is 0-60 in a real low-range supercar territory of 3 seconds and gets a 9 out of 10. The handling is excellent, impressively sharp and gets an 8 out of 10. The fun factor is excellent, the car is exciting to drive and gets an 8 out of 10. The cool factor is a little lower as it is the latest Ferrari , but it's also the entry-level Ferrari, so it's not as exciting as something like the F8 and it gets a 7 out of 10 for an overall weekend score of 40 out of 50. Following are the categories and daily features for the Roma It is surprisingly well equipped finally for a Ferrari it lacks some modern touches but it is very well made and gets a 7 out of 10.

The comfort is fine the ride is a little hard but it is quite pleasant and it gets a 5 out of 10. The quality is excellent, the interior is for the most part very nice and gets an 8 out of 10. practicality is low even though it has four seats and four seat

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s usually get a four, I give it a three out of ten because the rear seats They are so pathetically small and the boot isn't exactly huge, it's finally worth it and it's surprisingly good to offer this level of performance for this money, even a few years ago I would have had to buy a ferrari v12 to get the numbers on this car, it's ridiculous Saying that such an expensive car is a good value, but that's exactly what it is. and it gets a 7 out of 10 for an overall daily score of 30 out of 50.

Add it up and Doug's score is 70 out of 100, putting him Here against rivals, it scores surprisingly well, beating all close rivals like the 911 turbo. aston vantage the mercedes amg gt and ferrari's own portofino. I think the Roma is a great car and although it will be the scapegoat as Ferrari's base model, it's a pretty good place to be.