CloseWhoopsy:Looks like a bastard from a Vantage and a AMG GT
AND taking the worse attributes of both cars.
The front looks incredibly ugly, cannot imagine a more ugly front end. The rear also looks very bad, like an eye sore.
3/4 view is atrocious, side view is meh.
The front looks like a mix of Aston Martin and Volvo 
The rear I like a lot.
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Looks like an Italian version of the Jaguar F.
Still better looking than the Portofino and minus the funny roof that spoils the shape.
You get a share of the Ferrari bling for around €200.000 which is more affordable to more people with Ferrari aspirations.
For this kind of money give me the imperious Porsche Turbo and keep the Ferrari dazzle.
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That's the second time Ferrari have appropriated a beautiful Maserati design and the end result has been nowhere near as attractive. To think this car came out of the still born Alfieri which was a much better executed design that took inspiration from the rounded shapes of the 60's and added modern elements more successfully.
Aug 8, 2020 1:49:50 PM
I have mixed feeling about this car. I want it but I am not sure I would get it over a 992 turbo s for example. V different I know. But same price. Seem v color sensitive. I would need to see it in person.
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Aug 9, 2020 2:34:31 PM
I believe Ferrari has extended itself too far with this joke of a car. Which market segment are they after? If they are trying to attract first time buyer’s of Ferrari who hope to have a foot up on their more limited production models, good luck. It’ll never happen soon. When I was in the Ferrari “program” I knew of several people who bought used Ferrari’s from the dealer in the hope of getting their mid engine model. They waited years.
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Aug 9, 2020 4:20:20 PM
nberry:I believe Ferrari has extended itself too far with this joke of a car. Which market segment are they after? If they are trying to attract first time buyer’s of Ferrari who hope to have a foot up on their more limited production models, good luck. It’ll never happen soon. When I was in the Ferrari “program” I knew of several people who bought used Ferrari’s from the dealer in the hope of getting their mid engine model. They waited years.
that era is going to change faster than you can imagine. they are all slowing down and we are not even started from the real financial disaster. Here, GT3RS are roasting on dealership floors...no mark-up, delivery miles, you can even manage a discount... Ferrari tried to play it smart in a free economy. There was a market for anything until COVID kicked off. now it is different story.
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Aug 9, 2020 6:17:43 PM
Boy, tough crowd here... for years Ferrari is accused of tasteless excess in their styling, and now they do something much closer to simple elegance... and the styling is seen as derivative. For sure the Roma is not for the poser crowd, but I think there is a market for cleaner more timeless design.... of course it could be too that Ferrari need to add new models to achieve production growth and satisfy shareholders.
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Aug 9, 2020 9:38:09 PM
the-missile:nberry:I believe Ferrari has extended itself too far with this joke of a car. Which market segment are they after? If they are trying to attract first time buyer’s of Ferrari who hope to have a foot up on their more limited production models, good luck. It’ll never happen soon. When I was in the Ferrari “program” I knew of several people who bought used Ferrari’s from the dealer in the hope of getting their mid engine model. They waited years.
that era is going to change faster than you can imagine. they are all slowing down and we are not even started from the real financial disaster. Here, GT3RS are roasting on dealership floors...no mark-up, delivery miles, you can even manage a discount... Ferrari tried to play it smart in a free economy. There was a market for anything until COVID kicked off. now it is different story.
I think you and Nick are both right. The Roma was planned and was being built for a pre-Covid world, and in the US the dealers want you to enter “the program” as Nick calls it. But I think the-missile has it right going forward, the demand for an oddly designed entry level car as the launch point for new customers getting on “the program” doesn’t make sense...
Whoopsy:Looks like a bastard from a Vantage and a AMG GT
The front looks incredibly ugly, cannot imagine a more ugly front end. The rear also looks very bad, like an eye sore.
3/4 view is atrocious, side view is meh.
I really don't get this one. Aston Martin can't sell Astons these days so why does Ferrari think they can make an Aston and it will sell better?
Aug 10, 2020 3:36:20 PM
Aug 11, 2020 4:26:46 AM
Carlos from Spain:+1
I would probably see this car in a better light if it had an Aston badge, but doesn't fit the Ferrari ”identity” so it looks wrong, and being an entry level Ferrari doesn't help either.
To me, that is one of the advantages Ferrari have - they have never subscribed to the Russian dolls theory of "brand" design like so many others, they allow their various lines - mid engine vs front engine V12, etc, to have different visual personalities. There is never any single Ferrari visual identity, and this has been true historically too. IMO this Roma will appeal to people who may like the history and status of the brand, but do not see themselves in the majority of recent Ferraris, which have had increasingly dramatic, almost flashy, styling. It will be the Ferrari you do not order in Rosso Corsa.... 
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Roma is not supposed to be a car for the weekend but a usable everyday everywhere GT car. For a fraction of the cost someone could buy something like a BMW M850i which will do the job in a more reliable and robust way if someone wants to do some thousands km per year.
Besides the BMW looks the masculine car whereas the ROMA style is very effeminate. Probably the rich man's gf is the target market 
Comparing a BMW to a Ferrari? Why not? If you remove these very expensive brands from the exotic circle and into the real world the comparison with premium cars with top functionality and technology will be inevitable. Also the matter of cost will come into play.
Apparently Ferrari need to produce more cars in an effort to create value for their shareholders and they are running out of ideas.
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Porker:Enmanuel:I might be in a stark minority here, but I like the design of the Roma
Agree, have yet to see one in the flesh though.
Exactly. This is one of those designs you need to see in person, not on photos. 
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reginos:Roma is not supposed to be a car for the weekend but a usable everyday everywhere GT car. For a fraction of the cost someone could buy something like a BMW M850i which will do the job in a more reliable and robust way if someone wants to do some thousands km per year.
Besides the BMW looks the masculine car whereas the ROMA style is very effeminate. Probably the rich man's gf is the target market
Comparing a BMW to a Ferrari? Why not? If you remove these very expensive brands from the exotic circle and into the real world the comparison with premium cars with top functionality and technology will be inevitable. Also the matter of cost will come into play.
Apparently Ferrari need to produce more cars in an effort to create value for their shareholders and they are running out of ideas.
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The prettiest modern Ferrari to my eye is the coachbuilt Touring Superleggera. It's certainly feminine but breathtaking. The 275GTB was feminine, many of the older Ferraris are. It's only since the Testarossa that Ferrari went in a more muscular, masculine way and even then there were cars like the 612. I don't love the Roma but I understand it. I also think it looks like a love child of a F-Type (Itself a child of the Aston family) and an Alfa 8C. It's certainly not ugly but it's derivative.
Also here's the Touring because you can never look at it enough. 
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Aug 11, 2020 5:16:27 PM
Aug 13, 2020 7:22:26 PM
Rory’s very solid review of the Roma. The lineage with the Daytona in design comes across strongly. https://youtu.be/xv16ZVsgIWU
Aug 13, 2020 9:38:13 PM
CGX car nut:Rory’s very solid review of the Roma. The lineage with the Daytona in design comes across strongly. https://youtu.be/xv16ZVsgIWU
Hmm... something that has been present in basically every Ferrari is their appearance of speed (looking fast even stationary). I just don´t see that on the Roma, with very few exceptions (Daytona being one of them) the front-engined cars had a short frontal and long rear overhang, the mid-engined cars long front and short rear overhang. On the Roma, both front and rear overhangs look fairly equal in length but apart from the front, to a certain extend, this car doesn't look fast and dynamic to me. Not even in this video.
Something that I personally have a huge issue with is the front grill, it looks unfinished and out of place to me since the first pictures I saw of the car.
Other than that, I like that they consider new use cases and target groups for the brand and that Roma is still a better approach than building a Ferrari SUV. Thanks for that...
Aug 15, 2020 1:50:04 PM
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Sep 8, 2020 7:39:49 AM
Interestingly i was recently in Basel, and The local Ferrari dealer had a pearl white Roma out the front of the hotel (Three Kings). Car looks a lot better in person than it does in the pictures. Nice compact stance, seemed more sort of Vantage packaging, but arguably a better execution than Aston of the same concept. Would seem (to me) to be a better looking but less open (obv) package than the Portofino. Whether you would take this over a turbo S if you were looking for a GT car in this price ballpark unclear. Also i would be inclined to have a sunroof on any GT car i would get.
Sep 17, 2020 5:13:33 PM
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