The Purosangue Is the Most Exotic SUV Because It's The Silliest SUV - TheSmokingTire

Hello everybody and welcome to a beautiful warm day and we have chosen the right road for the right car in this case. This is Ferrari Purosangue. Because this road has open sections, tight sections, it's a it requires a car that can do everything. It's a versatile, yeah, yeah, a good way to test that. Yeah it's bumpy also and and we'll get to why that's important in a second. Ferrari's first crossover and there are people who like to debate very pedantically about is it an SUV, is it a hatch, is it a crossover. Basically it's the height of a Macan, it's slightly longer than a Macan, it has proportions that are sort of Lusso-esque, right, rear raked. Because the engine is set so far back you got to make the hood long. Right. The engine is a V12, it's not a small engine. Yeah that's the defining characteristic. There's a ton, a ton to talk about about this car but it's defining characteristic is that six and a half liter V12 mounted entirely behind the front axle. So there's a front-mid crossover which is real crazy. Well because most of its competition has a four liter twin-turbo V8. Yes. From the same grocery store, you know, pretty much. Right, that's the quote right way to do a crossover and in this video we're gonna show you why the wrong way is in fact better. Folks it's the holiday season everyone's thinking about what can I get for them, what can I get for them, what can I get for them and someone in your life needs their wallet game updated to this century. I'm talking they're rolling around like a George Costanza wallet sitting sideways. It's bad for your back people. Get in the game with Ekster. This is a 21st century wallet and so many accessories. Not only is it made from recycled aluminum and in some cases vegan leather, it's got that mechanical thing where it fans out the cards. Very, very cool. Also RFID resistant so no one's gonna pickpocket your data and Ekster's got that finder card. 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Yeah any of the Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche group ones but still 0 to 60 in 3.3 seconds and perhaps more importantly a 49 front 51 rear weight distribution thanks to the fact that the gearbox is a transaxle in the back. Right. Which is very very cool. I mean the front axle and the transaxle back there it is exceptional weight distribution. Yeah. For a car especially that looks like all the weights in the front visually. Yeah. And then of course you've got Ferrari's TPU which puts power back to the front wheels as well. It's because it's a primarily rear wheel drive car but if there's a slip or problems it will send power to the front. Right. It's not a primarily front wheel drive car or even symmetrical. Right. According to Ferrari the platform is all new and not based on the Lusso or any other existing platform and as such they've been able to do some very interesting things with the packaging. It does look a little strange from some angles but when you're inside you have a true four adult seat experience. I can fit behind myself comfortably. It's pretty awesome. Yeah. It looks unique and special. There's it's not three seats in the back like most SUVs and I think that helps it stand out and also like your the front seat looks like the back seat and vice versa. Yeah. The back seat is super adjustable which is great. You don't feel like a second-class citizen back there. Right. You're really missing out. Yeah. Adjustable lean and slide and heating and cooling and all that kind of stuff right. The other thing is the suspension which we'll talk about as we start driving and that's hydraulic. The suicide rear doors allow you to have a smaller rear door, a smaller rear entry but that a big person can still easily get in and out. I love that and the clamshell hood allows for a more aggressive connection between the hood and the a-pillar which I love and this is the first Ferrari ever with hill descent control. Obviously we're not going off-roading in it but if you're going down an icy mountain road you may want. May need that. We are going to start with a launch because it's a v12 and it sounds amazing and you've got an 8-speed dual clutch with launch control. I'm going to throw it into auto. I'm going to do my traction control off. I'm going to hit power start. The whole car lowers. The whole car super cool. Does a little thing. And we go. Rides those clutches a little bit and then you know unlike our electric future where that torque comes right away it actually takes a second to build. You got to earn it. You got to stay in the pedal. Now we'll go. That is the wonderful reward of an engine like this or even a turbo where the torque is set a little bit higher in the rev range. I love that. So Ferrari had an engine that probably would have worked really well. The 296 GTV engine made it with that hybrid system makes more power than this but would that have been the right answer? Well and I think there's speculation that there is a hybrid version coming that was going to have fewer cylinders and that may have more torque so that will be a fun question of for this vehicle for a crossover do you want torque down low or do you like having this this experience and this high revving engine? Because all of the other competitors of this have that low-end torque turbo motors sometimes with hybrid I think the v12 sets this apart. Absolutely. And I think it doesn't matter if it has less torque because it sounds like a v12 it feels like a v12 and that makes it totally unique in the space and I give Ferrari full credit for that. And also you know the like the Bentayga had the w12 and the v8 right? Yeah. And the w12 didn't sound good but it also didn't feel really different from the v8 twin-turbo. Right. So you won't have that it didn't feel special it just sounded like nothing. This feels special sounds special it's a reason to stick around. It's not exactly the same engine as the 812 I mean it's the same architecture but it's got different cam profiles it's got different tuning that are designed to have it make a little bit more on the torque side for everyday driving and a little bit less on the screaming racetrack side. And also it's got a taller eighth gear so that when you're cruising on the highway it's not like you're just an insane experience you know. Oh right there that's where we talk about the 48 valve Multimatic hydraulic dampers because they can really take the big bumps and just smooth them right out. Well so the way this suspension works is you know like Multimatic it basically it's got a spool valve and an electric motor on top so it can change the valving really quickly that that changes how quickly the fluid moves through the shock but there's also a big screw or bolt in the middle of the shock that essentially will change the ride height in like a millisecond so it can press the body of the car up like press the wheel in the body apart or bring them together yeah to manage the bump. So earlier we hit some like larger slower dips and we've done these driven this road before and I was expecting the whole car to lean into it almost like you carve on a snowboard right here didn't because it's extending the wheel yeah and it's it's keeping the body flatter and then it pulls the wheel back in it's a really complicated but incredible system. It's physically resisting that motion yeah it's very cool now in fairness it's not quite as good as Porsche's hydraulic system it's not as smooth it's not as smooth right but Porsche's hydraulic system has to be mated to a 400 volt proper hybrid or EV system which this car's naturally aspirated v12 would not be able to power that system so this I believe is about as good as you could do given the constraints of naturally aspirated engine and 48 volt architecture. What did the Panamera weigh that you drove that had that system? This is like 5,000 yeah it's like that oh so it's it's heavy so it's not much heavier even though it has that battery. It starts with a five okay sure I don't I don't remember okay I'll do lower third lower third I'm just curious if that battery pack you know adds a lot of weight. This thing it does it you know it it feels like a Ferrari it clearly can't do 296 speeds through the corners even on 23 inch stiffer tires right but the brake feel feels very Ferrari like it's a short pedal travel with very good response the steering ratio is quicker than most other crossovers but not too quick it doesn't feel as quick as 296 which I like yeah or 812 but it does have the rear steer which helps the agility. Well the rear steer in this is interesting so Ferrari patented a rear steer system that can control each wheel individually because up so other cars they move parallel right so the reason for I did that is for a couple things one on launch it actually will tow the rear wheels in which keeps it from wandering on launch and getting a little out of control and then it can like move you know it can change as it compresses it can adjust the tow of each wheel individually so it's amazing it's like it can design its own geometry through the wheel travel it's pretty wild. That's pretty cool. Dynamically there's so much to love here there are a few other issues with the usability even though Ferrari has improved it and I think we should wait till the end to talk about those because they are pretty glaring when you use the car every day but the comfort the visibility the handling the speed a lot to love totally a lot to love and frankly for this much money if they didn't get that right I'd be annoyed. Yeah because we'll talk about the price of this is also this is expensive it's pretty expensive all right but I'm gonna pull off and let the Zachary drive at this turnout here oh is he pulling off for us oh well I can't look a gift horse in the mouth okay really minimal body roll and no sway bars that's one of the advantages of the suspension yeah sway bars wild that's like there's zero lean I love this engine I mean how can you not yeah I need to figure out how to own a V12 Ferrari. It's so great and actually the communication between the steering wheel and the wheels is very good it doesn't feel too digital or artificial which I really like even though there's so much tech under there they have managed to give it pretty good feel oh right through that section like you could feel the suspension going smooth it's all out it's like an Instagram filter yeah it gets rid of your acne it gets rid of your wrinkles now you look 12 at 20 but because it doesn't have that 400 volt system it can't do the little bumps as well so you feel the little stuff and and then it sucks in all the big stuff it's funny with it because it's a crossover and it's got ground clearance and everything but we're really being very careful with it I know because it's expensive it's a Ferrari and you know we're getting used to the idea of a Ferrari crossover yeah I like that the paddles are very big and that they're fixed you know they're not moving with the wheel so at least make them gigantic you do prefer a column paddle or a wheel paddle I think overall with these days I prefer a wheel paddle yeah there are times where I will shift mid-corner because you can yeah and also speaking of the transmission you know last week we drove a what 2015 458 special yeah there was that thing yeah and oh my god how far this transmission has come yeah and the fact that this doesn't totally upset the car when you downshift like three to two and two you know that thing would like violently jerk forward and now this is very good so so smooth very smooth God the sound of it this I get it I mean this this gives you you know a lot of 812 fizz and you can you know transport your very lucky children or friends with you mean man it stays almost too flat in the corners where it doesn't really tell me anything it's just inside that line but this is what an amazing piece of technology that Multimatic stuff is it is much more like an 812 than it is like a Stelvio you know it's oh yeah it's not like platform shared with a Stelvio or even with a Lucent yeah absolutely and and this rear steer is better than the last Lusso I drove the Lusso I drove felt like that SL just it was just mismatched the back in the front we're kind of doing different things this feels much closer it is so fast sound the sound is addictive and even though it's so fast it's actually not like the Urus Performante is faster but like who cares yeah absolutely and then they're really close like the turbo GT kind turbo GT is two tenths ahead at 60 and like two tenths ahead at the quarter-mile but who cares when it sounds this good and both by the way are really really fast like this thing runs at 11 something in the quarter-mile that's that's fine well what's funny is up to a certain dollar value call it $250,000 the speed really matters beyond that it doesn't it's it's exotic materials it's exotic sound it's exotic feel it's unique and interesting styling it's not being platform shared those things matter more than a couple of tenths either way in acceleration absolutely especially you know the easy shade to throw it in or is which by the way like it's an amazing car but you know it's an RS Q8 yeah so it's it's very similar to all those things it looks it it feels it sounds it and so all right you can be the quickest thing in the world but you're there everyone has a little bit of a word I'm looking for like nothing's perfect and that's fine well and a lot of people on my Instagram seem to miss the point of this because they were saying things in the comments like oh you could get an Urus or a Cayenne turbo GT for less money or an RS Q8 for way less money but the point of this car is to be more money the people who are buying this they want it's same as like a Rolls-Royce like being super super expensive is the point right they want you to know that it was more than those things by a lot or it may not matter to them and they are truly just choosing the experience that they would prefer like I am a big Ferrari fan and if I was if I had all the money and I was like well do I want a Lamborghini SUV or a Ferrari SUV I'd probably choose this one and if someone said it's twice as much but I had so much money I go oh how much more is it yeah sure okay yeah there are people that literally the $200,000 difference does not matter there are and I don't like that but there are and and and too many of those people they're buying 911s reimagined by Singer and Aston Valkyries and stuff like that where it's a unique experience that because it's not sharing things with lesser vehicles like the like a 4-liter twin turbo VA or a Volkswagen platform etc that's what you're really paying for is to have that totally unique experience yes and I and when you look at this thing I mean I think the exterior looks pretty good from most angles personally but the the interior feels and looks so special yeah I think the execution of this is awesome and it it feels exclusive it feels Ferrari the whole dual screen thing like the fact there's no center screen for us to operate it's a little clunky which we should talk about some of the interactions but it looks and feels unique and special right so there are some downsides the haptic buttons still kind of suck yeah although they Ferrari is incrementally making the experience better it's better than it was in the Roma for instance the the dual screen does help this is a true co-driver screen I can do the radio I can do carplay I can do all kinds of things on this screen while you're driving which is great but there's a you know let's see what is what is some of the other issues oh well the biggest one of course is that you cannot leave the doors open with the engine turned off for 10 minutes or more because you'll kill the battery right we're warned about this three times and it's not the owner who's gonna discover this it's his detailer or you know valet or I mean or an owner who's loading things at their house yeah they go inside and they get a phone call and they've left the doors open and they didn't turn the car on because if you turn the car it has to be a neutral with the e-brake on I mean I can see people going well I want to leave it in park cars to be off to be in part yeah so that is a problem and then we we left the car running while we did the beauty shots because we didn't want to kill the battery and after 12 minutes it started honking yelling saying turn car off yeah so it's not exactly tailgate ready yeah no yeah tailgate is not it's not really happening yeah so for this much money that is a weird compromise to have to make and one that could come up as being very annoying right also like the hockey puck controller which is on the one hand beautiful slick minimalist high-tech feeling as you know AF but if you want to change the temperature in any of the four zones you have to wait for the disc to rise out of the you know the earth and then adjust it you can do it over there too but if you want to turn on your seat massager temperature heat cooled seats everything is done in here it's designed forward and using user ease of use second yeah and that's with a lot of things on this car the design comes before the ease of use now I said on my Instagram what do people want to know about it and people suggested a lot of things most of which we've already covered but the one really funny one that I wanted to cover is what are some things that would be standard in a totally run-of-the-mill average crossover that cost extra in this the base price of this vehicle is $393,000 this one is five hundred and seventy six thousand five hundred and forty four dollars that is one hundred and eighty three thousand dollars in options that's another 911 GTS yeah in options that's another Cayenne GTS which is you know just crazy and most of those options are special color this carbon fiber that their cosmetic stuff which we've seen before in Ferrari but there are four that are let's just call them questionable one is a front nose lift which in a crossover is kind of funny to have although there are potentially certain use cases for it if you have a very very extreme driveway angle but then the three also titanium wheel bolts which in a 5,000 pound SUV don't really seem to make much sense unsprung weight Matt yeah the only two options that are truly questionable are the quote smartphone interface which is somehow optional is that the CarPlay it doesn't say it doesn't call it CarPlay because it has Android and CarPlay yeah I'm told they don't charge they used to charge for that I'm told they don't anymore I don't even know what smartphone interface does but it's an option and then the wireless charge port which is standard on very very many $30,000 cars excuse me no thank you I'll give you $5 just please get off the car that's a funny one do you know how much those things are I don't have an option list price breakdown but other that's actually less egregious than in the past well you're gonna need a smartphone integration because this doesn't have a native navigation system you have to use a phone which so it's fine it does have saddle I'd rather it didn't have nav than it had its own nav but was 4g based it doesn't give me false hope and it does have a real serious satellite connection so there's that no this car is really awesome it's really good so expensive you can decide on your own if you like how it looks or not I think it's a little awkward looking but in other ways it's a little it is exotic I think what you're inside it it's a fantastic place to be yeah and v12 crossover dynamically it's really fun and aesthetically subjective but yeah it feels special and it looks awesome in here but are you saying it's not no that's all optional all the carbon when you when you know when Lambo came out with Urus it was but you could have put the Aventador engine in there when Aston came out with the DBX it was but you could have put the DBS engine in there and they used the corporate 4-liter twin-turbo v8 Ferrari said we are Ferrari we will do the v12 and they have and look it's expensive but maybe this is part part of that cost is whole new platform yeah that holds this engine you don't want a Volkswagen Touareg you know hand-me-down that has you know an engine from 15 other cars in it okay it's gonna cost money yeah a DBX is a unique platform as well that's why it's so much money but they didn't yeah right oh yes it is expensive yeah even with a Mercedes powertrain the DBX platform is unique to Aston yeah so that's part of the part of the cost so thank you to Ferrari for letting us have a go in this it's it's pretty wild and thanks to you guys for watching and we'll see you later and remember always fight your tickets on the off the record app available in the Android and iOS store or go to off the record.com slash TST