QUITE FRANKLY, THE NOISE GIVES you the creeps. This engine, an all-new V6 that shares nothing but Maranello’s cutting-edge combustion know-how with any other Ferrari motor, sounds unlike anything else. Imagine, if you can, a jam session in which Luciano Pavarotti, Robert Plant, and Adele lay vocals over brutal, skull-thumping techno—composed by Verdi. At idle it is restless, impatient, eager. And promising. Blip the throttle with the transmission in neutral and the so-called “hot tube” will pump pulses of aural magic into the cabin. From the outside, though, an otherworldly high-frequency treble prevails. Then, as you summon first gear via what is surely the longest shift paddle in Ferrari history, all those peripheral whizzings, rumblings, and hissings coalesce into a solid, billowing, and, at times, unnerving high note.
What happens…
