Why Richard Hammond HATES Ferrari's New SUV!

here's the situation Porsche wrote to me telling me not to drive my 911 turbos s which is ironic really because like most Porsche owners I bought it to do precisely that to drive it every day as my car however their reason was apparently due to a faulty part one of the wheels could fall off in their letter they actually State a wheel falling off can increase the risk of crash or injury yes a wheel falling off your 650 horsepower 9/11 I'd say could significantly increase the risk of a crash so while it's off the road

they've lent me a Range Rover Vala you know the one it's all right it's transport but I thought I can do better as a daily driver much better which is why I've gone over to the other side Ferrari and I'm going to have a go in this some are calling it The Ultimate daily driver the brand new Ferrari Puro sang Puro Puro it's that it's a fancy Ferrari name it's one of these let's see fact of the matter is this is difficult for me to be objective in talking about this car because I don't get

modern Ferraris they just for whatever reason they don't float my boat a bit like football I don't get that either but I fully accept every weekend millions of people's Revel in football and get a lot of pleasure from it so you can't argue with it for some people this is an absolute dream so I'm going to try and bear that in in mind no I'm not I'm going to give you my opinion I don't see the point one thing I mustn't do is call it an SUV even though everybody is calling it that Ferrari insist

it's not it's an fuv I don't know what that is it could stand for various things I'll leave it to you what have we got then a 6 and 1/2 L V12 up front putting out over 700 horsepower not to 63.3 seconds so it's not actually as fast as 60 as my 911 Turbo S although the wheels will probably stay on this and I've got to say first first drive this feels well right now every other Ferrari in the country is wrapped up in its garage but on this day on this road in this weather

what a Ferrari would I want to be should also remember this is the week in which a certain Jeremy Clarkson came out in his newspaper column as liking a Porsche 911 Turbo S so changes in the air maybe this is the car that changes my mind and I I start to like modern Ferraris it's not doing that so far as a practical iCal car yeah there's four seats four doors the rear two are suicide doors like in a Mazda RX8 love a suicide door there is a boot you'd get a suitcase in it but I

guess anybody driving in one of these will just buy new stuff at the end of their Journey they're going to be rich because the car costs £ 313,000 base and then the extras do kind of add up the yellow design flashes that's 142 Grand not including the painted batch that's another 6 and 1/2 and then there's the color this blue optional extra 222 gr how they're going to paint it anyway so that's just to open a tin of blue rather than a tin of red I've just realized the driv tribe van is blue with little

accents on it in almost exactly the same places as on this but you didn't have to pay 30-y old Grand to have that done it's 480 Grand I think it's hilarious I love that there are people out there Bonkers enough to do that and I shall applaud the first one of these that drives past you sir or madam are brilliant thank you for being that man I applaud you but we are in a realm here where price money is relevant it doesn't matter most buyers will probably be just buying one of these on their way

to getting permission to buy the latest Ferrari hypercar so it doesn't really matter it does feel light it does feel Nimble I'm not going to exercise a lot of that today because I'm on a wet well Mountain Road and I don't want to smear half a million quids of the Ferrari across the landscape there would be shouting I don't like it I'm sorry oh stop beeping at me because of the white lines in the road I could turn that system off but that would mean using the infotainment thing through this Central dial which is complicated

and fiddly to use whilst driving put it this way much like my 9911 where the wheel falling off can increase the risk of crash or injury using the entertainment on this I think increases the risk more than the wheel coming off how do I turn the seat heater off that's memory settings for the seat that's to open the boot rear Auto rear off ah ah I think that's how it is it no I feel old I had a Ferrari a 550 and I loved it big old V12 up front and that's about it really that's

from the era when you bought a Ferrari you were buying an engine and a car came with it this yes it's got a V12 but it's what you're buying is a bank of computers with a V12 buried somewhere in it but I'm the I'm the worst person in the world to review a Ferrari because I don't get them I don't like little buttons on the steering wheel and indicators in the wrong place and all of that I don't but that's not a review is it that's my personal opinion this feels immensely competent capable surefooted powerful

bloody fast and if you like Ferraris boom there it is I was trying to think how to sum up this car is it the Ferrari that's turned me back onto a mark that I haven't really liked since cars of the' 70s is it the Ferrari you can use every day but no I it kind of sums itself up because I was wrong earlier when I said they'd ask for £65,000 to paint their badge on the side of the car no it's 9 and 1 half 9 and 1 half Grand to paint that you could get

Michelangelo to paint the badge on for that I'd paint my company name on the side of your car for free but no you you'd be paying 9 and2 Grand to advertise their company and what a mug you want are I'm pretty cross at Porsche for selling me a 200 Grand 9/11 but it turns out can lose a wheel but I'd be a lot more cross at Ferrari for asking 9 and2 Grand to paint their badge on my car it's just I would genuinely and for real far rather have a dater duster and a house