The Ferrari FF Is a $100,000 Family Car Bargain

This is a 2014 Ferrari FF and it's a Ferrari

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Those are words I never thought I'd say Ferrari

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but that's exactly what it is. It had a sticker price of almost 350,000 but now you can buy one for around a hundred thousand dollars and it has room for your kids. Today I'm going to review the ff and show you what I mean before we start. Be sure to check out the cars and deals which is my new online car auction website for enthusiasts. for modern and cool cars, if you are looking to sell a modern and cool car for enthusiasts, cars and deals are the place where you will get the most money and the most visibility for your cool car and if you are looking to buy a cool car from the In the modern era, we have an incredible variety of daily auctions of incredibly cool cars.

Check out the cars and deals at carsandbids.com, so let's talk. Ferrari has always made a four seater car with a front engine v12 and it has always been the least loved car. in the

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line, the 612, the 456 and the 412, these aren't exactly the most iconic and well regarded

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s, so about 10 years ago ferrari decided to change things up a bit, they would still make a four seater v12 , but they would do something. a little different how different was the ff this car still has a v12 a 6.3 liter v12 with 650 horsepower but the grand coupe look is gone instead this is a hatchback for practicality maybe even crazier it's all wheel drive almost Every Ferrari in history has had rear wheel drive until this came back for practicality, so it has four seats, a hatchback and all wheel drive.

Is this finally a practical Ferrari? Well, it's not exactly what it looks like when this car was new, it had a sticker price of just under. 350,000, which kind of negates a lot of the usability because at that price you're not going to let your kids eat chips in the back seat and you're certainly not going to take them in the snow, but then depreciation occurred. a lot of depreciation these days, the cheapest 2012 ff models are around a hundred thousand dollars and even a 2014 with nice low mileage like this one could cost around a hundred and thirty thousand dollars which is a very good bargain for a modern ferrari v12 which does 0-60 in 3.4 seconds, of course it's still not cheap, but given the price, performance and practicality, the ff is a bargain and is much more family-friendly than any previous Ferrari, so I'll take them today on a tour of the ff and i will show you all the quirks and interesting features of the family ferrari, then i will take it out on the road and drive it and then i will give it an excellent rating.

I'm going to start with the quirks and features of ff giving support to the owners of it. I never do this, but I thought it was justified. In this case, the owners of this ff not only let me film this video in the rain. something a lot of people at Ferrari wouldn't do, but they have three dogs and they use this car as transportation for the dogs, something a lot of people at Ferrari wouldn't do, and more importantly, this is their garage. That's right, amg wagon and a ferrari ff. side by side these are their two cars these people are basically living my dream life with my dream cars and if I ever needed proof that there really are people willing to spend a lot of money on trucks or hatchbacks and use them as It's intended, here's the proof you need anyway, next I want to move on to the things that make the FF unique and special in the world of Ferrari, so I'll start with the cargo area.

Now you can return here in one of two ways. You can press the button on the remote control or you can press a button in the driver's footwell and then the tailgate lifts up automatically just like it does in a luxury SUV or any other type of practical vehicles that you frequently load into. cargo in the back and once you open the tailgate you're greeted by a pretty big cargo area back here, pretty big by any standards but especially big for a Ferrari, you can see it and it gets even bigger because you can lower the seats , you pull these little latches. the side of the cargo area and the seats fold down seamlessly to give you an even larger opening back here so you can drive around your big screen TV at 200 miles per hour a couple of other cool things back here that are worth your time point out, one is under the cargo floor, lift the floor and you can see the Ferrari tool kit with all the tools you need to perform emergency roadside repairs on your Ferrari 350 000 v12 and then another interesting article here on the right side of the cargo area. you have a power plug open this and you can plug something in and right above it you have a little diagram for a power plug in case you couldn't find it they made sure you knew where they were talking about unusual diagrams on the inside of the tailgate you have a diagram of the car with the tailgate open.

I'm not exactly sure how it's useful but it's there in case you're confused about what it looks like, anyway that's the loading area of ​​the ff it's pretty cool and when you're done press a button and It will automatically close again like any other practical luxury SUV, truck or minivan and then we move on to another of the FF's unique attributes, which would be its back seat. Getting back here is pretty easy you just pull this little silver tab on the side of the front seat pushes it forward and then it automatically rotates and creates a little space for you then you just fold down and you can come back here and now I'm in the back of Fff, just like your kids will when you buy this family car, now when you put the seat back you can see there isn't a huge amount of space back here, but it's not that bad I guess compared to cars with really small back seats. like the ferrari portofino or a porsche 911 this is tolerable for an adult it is not comfortable and would be quite reasonable for a child that being said a few things worth mentioning about the back seats for starters there are only two no There is support in the middle. here, so you can't buy this thinking you're getting a five-seat vehicle because that's not what it is, but that being said, there are some surprisingly nice amenities back here, between the seats, you have a large center console that you open up in the middle . part and there's a little storage area there with a charger so you can charge devices back here if you were transporting your kids now later in this center console, open this lid and you've got cupholders that aren't exactly big, big enough for a lot of drinks for children, but they are there for the people sitting in the back and you also have vents back here, you can see the Ferrari horse in the middle and you can adjust their position and the amount of air that passes through them to control climate storage.

Loading, this is the back seat of a family car and to further clarify that point, yes, there are child seat anchors back here. You can remove this panel and install a child seat safely and legally in the back of your Ferrari. It's a real surprise when you think about Ferraris from the old days and that being said one of the biggest problems in the back seats is getting out, they are very deep and low so you slide back into them and trying to get out is really A battle with gravity and of course size, but it's not that difficult and then we move on to the front seat of the FF, where there is a lot to discuss in terms of quirks and features.

I want to start when you first open the door, you can see some seating. The controls on the side of the seat have all the typical things to move the seat, but you also have a little dial and a diagram next to it with some arrows pointing up, which is the dial to turn on the heated seat in this car. You can't actually see it when you're sitting on the seat, you just have to feel it and pull it up to turn on the heated seat. Interestingly, there is also a cooled seat here and it's the same setup, one dial on. the side of the seat that you can't really see, you just have to move with your fingers and hope it provides the amount of coolness you want, it's definitely a weird old school way of doing heated and cooled seat controls. the Italian character of this car and the next step, once you get inside and sit down, is a pretty fun quirk because this car has such long doors for easy access to the back seats that it can be difficult to reach behind you and take your seat.

Fortunately, Ferrari has thought of there as an electronic arm that automatically extends to deliver the seat belt once you get in the car and close the door, then you put on the seat belt, start the car and the arm snaps back into place. until it's necessary again, you'll see this occasionally in two-door cars where it can be difficult to reach behind you and grab the seat belt, but I always find it a very strange quirk to have an automated seat belt delivery system and then move more inward. I want to talk about the steering wheel because this car has a crazy one like many modern Ferraris.

There are many controls on this steering wheel. I'm going to start with this little switch on the right that adjusts the drive modes. That's how it is. It doesn't have a little dial on the center console, it has this very official looking switch on the steering wheel and you can choose between snow, wet, sport comfort or traction off. I guess that would be on a race track, as I mentioned this car has it all. -all wheel drive but the four wheel drive system is only active when this car is in wet snow or comfort modes if it is in sport or track mode it is rear wheel drive I guess just to facilitate an higher performance driving, otherwise you might need that all-wheel drive if you find yourself in a snowy or rainy situation, but beyond that switch there's a lot more to cover on the steering wheel, such as the turn signals, this little Right button turns on the right turn signal.

The same goes for this. button on the left for the left turn signal, there are no actions coming out of the steering column to turn them on like basically any other car and it goes on from there, this little button with a light on allows you to turn the lights back on, no There is a lever that comes off the steering column to do that and on the right, this little button allows you to turn the wipers back on. There is no material protruding from the steering column. It has a button on the steering wheel and another interesting control on the upper half of the steering wheel. roll around the edge, that's where the horn is, just touch it with your thumb and then you can honk.

Now there are two main reasons why they did this: They wanted all the controls to be within reach of the driver. On a race track or in a high speed situation, you don't have to reach out to find some button or switch, you want it to be there at your fingertips so everything is on the steering wheel. They also do it this way because there is no room on this steering column for the levers to come out, that's where they have the paddle shifters. You can see they are big metal, very satisfying to throw away, not cheap plastic junk like you find in many cars, and to make them so big. and high-quality, it took up the space usually occupied by turn signals and wipers, so those elements moved to the steering wheel and then moved on to other interesting controls throughout the interior.

How about this button in the middle that says PS? stands for electric start, which is Ferrari's version of launch control. You push to get the conditions right and then you can have a launch or an electric start according to Ferrari. Next just above the electric start button you have the climate controls which in my opinion are quite confusing, take a look at these things, it has seven individual buttons and five dials, many car manufacturers do it with half , there are also arrows everywhere and circles, and it's too confusing. Ferrari has simplified the look of its climate controls in its modern models. vehicles but this was a sad era of confusion about Ferrari's climate control and next is an interesting one on the passenger side of the dash you can see there is a little black button you press it and this carbon panel falls out and you can put your hand there or put small items there to store them, the reason is that the ff was offered with a screen on the passenger side, you could get an additional small screen so your passenger could monitor your speed or other different functions of the vehicle, which was great, but the screen was expensive, most people didn't go for it, and if you didn't get it, you got this little storage system insteadcubicle shape and speaking of screens, let's go downtown here for a pretty fun one.

I say this because The infotainment system is an unchanged, unadapted, unupdated Chrysler infotainment system, it was literally taken out of a jeep grand cherokee of this era and put into the Ferrari. There are no real improvements to make it a Ferrari system. It's just Chrysler's infotainment system. system now the reason for this is that ferrari and chrysler share an fca parent company and so they just decided, hey, we have these systems, let's use them on ferrari too, but if you've been in a grand cherokee from this era, just laugh when it comes into this 350,000 car with the same core technology, but in addition to the Chrysler center screen and the optional passenger-side dash screen, it also has two screens in the gauge cluster area that are very driver-focused: the the left.

It shows you different information about the vehicle and you can control it by using this small panel to the left of the steering wheel to cycle through different screens and menus. The screen on the right shows your speedometer, your current speed. That's a pretty simple one but even simpler is right in the middle where you have the screenless tachometer here this is an old school analog gauge and it looks great right in the middle of your line of sight I love seeing it there and by the way , the last thing I want to mention before leaving the ff is the window sticker, which is a little funny, on the one hand, total price 346 thousand dollars, this car was very expensive now it is just expensive, there were also many options on this car the base price is 295 so it has about a thousand dollars worth of options and there are so many that Ferrari ran out of room on the window sticker, there are several options listed and detailed with their prices but then you get to the end and it says other options sixty five hundred dollars, we'll always live and wonder what those other options are, but they were definitely expensive and then we move under the hood where you can see the engine of this car, it's beautiful and glorious.

V12, as I mentioned, 6.3 liters, about 650 horsepower, but more than that, the numbers just look at how amazing it is, it's really beautiful, absolutely huge and totally the masterpiece of this car. It's a really cool look here, but beyond the sheer beauty of this engine, there's something else. like in this engine bay which is front and center, you have the chassis number of this car which tells you exactly where you are in the production sequence for Ferrari models. It's there every time you open the hood and you can proudly look at your production number. and next I want to briefly talk about the all-wheel drive system of this car.

I don't want to get too technical here but the basic gist is that this car is rear wheel drive the vast majority of the time unless in one of the all wheel drive modes like I mentioned and then if it detects slippage it can send up to 20 of power to the front wheels to create an all-wheel drive experience. Now the problem, as I see it, is that this car has a separate transmission for the front drive wheels, so this car has two transmissions, which seems like a complexity I wouldn't want to deal with in the future, since These things start to go out of warranty and get even cheaper, maybe they're not maintained properly. well that could be a point of failure but for now everything is working, it's quite an innovative system and ferrari says it saves considerable weight compared to a standard all-wheel drive system and that allows you to use your ff as a car to the snow with your kids in the back and next I want to talk about the style now, the ff style was never really a critics' favorite when it first came out, quite the opposite, in fact it was generally considered relatively unattractive With its large front end and hatchback-like design, personally, it's a bit strange.

I've always liked it, although I'm not exactly sure if I liked it because it's a cool Ferrari hatchback or because it looks cool. I'm not sure I could have separated them in my mind, but either way it was certainly controversial. generated a lot of opinions both for and against when it came out and there's no doubt that it was absolutely a departure from the norm for Ferrari, I'll say that, although whatever you think about the styling, the look of this car is much more pleasing to the eye. a price one hundred to one hundred and thirty thousand dollars than in 350. and this number I don't care what it looks like it's an all-wheel drive Ferrari with four seats of v12 650 horsepower and zero to sixty in three four percent great , it might look like a drawbridge and I'd still be interested in that.

Said one element that never created any controversy with this car was that it sounds fantastic and in fact requires listening to the glorious v12 and those are the quirks and features. of the ferrari ff now it's time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives driving the ff now many people have many opinions about the appearance of this car and some people think that this car improved when it became the gtc4 luso it was a kind of a personal evolution, i have always really liked the way this car looks, i understand it's not the traditional beautiful ferrari, i understand that a lot, but it's a hatchback ferrari, it's a practical ferrari and it has all the performance and, frankly, It's just different after years of coupes that look similar here's something a little different, more interesting and I always like that on the road this car has an immense amount of power at all speeds and constantly prompts you to take it further.

Because the exhaust note is so amazing, you just want to listen to it all the time and downshift, that sounds so good, this car may not be as practical as a mercedes gls 63 or some reasonably fast family suv, but it is much more fun and more attractive than any vehicle like that. I mentioned before that the owners of this car also have an amg truck, which I think is one of the coolest combinations of cars you can have taking advantage of depreciation and an amg truck at one time. Please wow oh what is this kids car, anyway I mentioned the owners have an Amg station wagon in addition to this one, awesome duo and it's a really perfect setup if you have kids or dogs or if you're hauling stuff and just can.

Not being in a boring car and I just love it. I think it's great that someone bought both. It's my dream if I could go out and spend some real money. The only real problem I have with this car I mentioned. before it was the reliability factor, you just don't know, you get those two transmissions, you have a Ferrari from this era, it's still going to be reliable, you never really know what's going to happen, but if you don't care that much, you do know this. The thing is those gears just kicked in, that v12, the amg truck doesn't sound like that now, the thing about this car is that it's not just the acceleration, it's also a hugely capable driving experience, the car feels like If it was on rails to use an overused one. cliche the steering is so incredibly connected and precise it's rare you get so much immediacy in a four seat hatchback car a golf r is a fun car to drive but it doesn't feel anywhere near a sports car .

It turns out to be a hatchback which is a hatchback that was converted into a sports car the only downside I see in terms of everyday usability I just wish it had four doors and I know that's sacrilege in the Ferrari world but it would add a lot to the practicality of This car, even if they were weirdly hinged rear doors like on an FJ Cruiser or an RX-8, would just make the car much more sustainable. I don't know, Ferrari didn't want to do it because Ferrari never made a four-door production car, you can't go that route, but to me that would have made the car even more reasonable as it is, it's good, it's reasonably practical, but not exactly where you need it to justify everything else in general.

I really think this is a fantastic car. Get over the styling and you have one of the most practical and capable cars you can get at this price. Most likely, it will be an amazing car in my opinion. I love it. I love driving it. You can make it work for your family lifestyle, you should and that's the Ferrari ff. No, this won't replace an SUV or minivan as the main family car, but if you're looking for something fun you can put your kids in. This could be it, especially since it no longer costs 350,000 or even 150,000 and you'd still be the coolest parent in the school drop-off line, now it's time to give this a Doug Score starting with the categories of the weekend. and designing the ff is weird, there's no other way to put it, it's just weird, very controversial and the best I can give it is a 5 out of 10.

Acceleration does 0-60 in 3.4 seconds and it gets a 9 out of 10. Handling is sharp, not as good as modern exotics, but very close and gets a 7 out of 10. The fun factor is excellent, no surprise of course, and gets a 7 out of 10. Finally, a factor cool and these are cool, the rare Ferrari truck. or at least a hatchback and gets a 7 out of 10 for an overall weekend score of 35 out of 50. Next up are the daily categories and equipment features are okay, but not great by modern standards and it gets a 5 out of 10. comfort Also okay, but not great even for a big tour.

It's a little rough and gets a 6 out of 10. The quality is good, the interior is nice and overall reliability is good and gets a seven out of ten. Practicality is excellent for an exotic vehicle. car and ultimately gets a value of five out of ten and this is huge given the level of performance and practicality here. It's a real bargain for less than a hundred thousand dollars, which is what they're looking for. It's an easy eight out of 10 for an overall daily score of 31 out of 50. Added up and Doug's score is 66 out of 100, which puts him here in front of relevant cars, the ff actually beats the gtc4 lusso because it offers many of the same benefits for much less money and The ff comes close to some newer cars that offer great advantages.

The ff is just a great all-around car, great, very fast, very exciting and should be on more shopping lists, especially at its current value.