Category: GQ

It’s electric. And Croatian. And it made me feel like my spirit was being evacuated.

Is the Ferrari Purosangue–the brand’s first four-door–a vaffanculo to founder Enzo Ferrari’s credo? (Short Answer: No. But read the piece, obvi.)

And that’s a good thing.

“I think when you have this ethos, you also need your vehicle to be able to actually go anywhere. And that’s a big problem with Land Rover drivetrains. They tend to not work most of the time.”

“Everyone wants to talk about a moonshot. That’s not an accurate term for most projects it’s applied to, which are just about identifying outrageous market segments,” says Castriota. “When NASA said they want to go to the moon, they knew where they were going. They just had to reverse engineer how to do it. We were in much the same position.”

Mercedes-Benz refers to this as “four-dimensional aural immersion.” It would not confirm that the system was tuned by listening to “WAP.”

“I mean, some people are obviously dreaming about going to Mars,” he says, taking a dig at the Red Planet-colonizing ambitions of Elon Musk. “But we go to Pandora, which is even further.”

“We need elegance. Is it clear?” says Flavio Manzioni, Ferrari head of design. “Pure. Minimalistic, and sober. Is it possible to say sober?

It’s not just that it’s better than every car’s infotainment interface. It’s that I’m old and jaded, and it’s reassuringly familiar.

A supercar for the weekend, a cush SUV for the family, and an S-Class for being driven to the office is nice—but nicer? All of it, now, at once, in a single set of wheels. These seven cars will provide that rush.