The car market has been strange ever since the inception of the Porsche Cayenne. The fact that a Porsche had suddenly grown into a ugly four-door SUV was hard to swallow but it sold in the millions and Porsche raked in the money. Other carmakers, taking note of this also followed suit with Maserati currently working on its own version of a SUV dubbed the Kubang, Aston Martin is set to officially introduce Rapide and Lamborghini is toying with the idea of commercialising the Estoque. If you haven’t noticed, all these car makers are also makers of some of the world’s most desirable supercars.
One supercar marque that still hasn’t jumped on the money-wavering bandwagon is Ferrari. But over the years there have been reports of the Italian supercar makers toying with the idea of a SUV or a four-door saloon, but we are yet to hear any confirmation on this. And if a recent report is to be believed, we may never see a four-door Ferrari.
Ferrari boss Amedeo Felisa has said the firm will ”never” follow rivals Aston Martin and Porsche into making a four-door sports saloon.
“As Enzo would say, we will never do four doors,” said Felisa. “And we will keep this tradition.”
When it was put to Felisa that once upon a time Ferrari would not have made a hybrid vehicle or had fuel-saving stop-start technology on its cars – two things it is working on now – he said: “Hybrid was forced on us by regulation, there is no regulation forcing us to do four doors.
“Frankly speaking no-one is asking for a four-door Ferrari. If you want a four door Ferrari we have a Maserati.
“We stand 60 years and we never needed four doors. What never means, I don’t know, but one of the strong points of Ferrari is to keep the product in the right way. I’m not saying four doors is not right for the image, but it’s not part of our heritage.”
