When was the last truly graceful Ferrari? It’s a question we recently posed to our followers on Instagram, with varying results. Of little surprise was that numerous votes were cast for the Pininfarina-designed F355, 456 and 550 Maranello. More shocking was that some suggested you need to trace as far back as the 1960s and to sultry Gran Turismos such as the 275 GTB for automotive elegance in the truest sense. Few could argue that Ferrari is building the fastest, most technologically advanced and desirable cars in the world right now and, let’s face it, it has been for a while. But where’s the understated and knee-weakening feminine elegance gone? Thankfully, one of Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera’s well-heeled customers wondered the same thing. Together, they hatched a plan to bestow a simpler, more classically designed body on the underpinnings of the mighty 740bhp F12berlinetta. Touring’s charismatic designer Louis de Fabribeckers got to work, and the result is this: the Berlinetta Lusso.
 
Alex Easthope
Deputy Editor