Ferrari Roma
The above photo is amazing. Not because of the car so much as because we see Rome's Spanish Steps utterly deserted -- something I thought was was impossible. I'm sure the Rome police and perhaps even the Carabinieri were in cahoots with Ferrari publicists to pull off this miracle. As for the car, it's Ferrari's new Roma coupé that will be available Summer 2020. Ferrari's website announcement is here , and a car magazine's reaction is here . For reasons not at all rational, I'm not a Ferrari fan: never was one. But the Ferraris I like best are the custom-bodied ones of the late 1940s and the 1950s. Which is why I am pleased to see the Roma. It strikes me as being a reasonable 2020 version of, say, a 1953 Ferrari by Touring, Vignale or Ghia Gallery This front view shows the classic egg-crate grille bar pattern, a nice touch. The running lights slashed across the headlight assemblies is another very nice detail -- all too often in recent years on o...