The Prancing Horse simply unveiled its newest providing, the Ferrari Roma Spider. Like its coupe sibling, the Spider takes 60s styling and brings it forth to the fashionable period. In line with this theme, the Roma Spider does not characteristic a folding steel roof just like the Portofino M, with whom it shares a platform and engine. As a substitute, the Spider employs a folding material prime, just like the 60s Ferraris that impressed it.
The tender prime folds in 13.5 seconds at as much as 37 mph (60 kph) and provides 185 lb (84 kg) to the Spider’s 3,430-lb (1,556 kg) dry weight. Its improvement offered distinctive challenges for Ferrari’s designers as they tried to retain the Roma’s beautiful fastback roofline. Thus they built-in the rear window into the highest itself. A brand new body-colored deck sits simply in entrance of the Roma’s carbon-fiber lively spoiler and helps separate the roof mechanism and the automotive’s lively aero components.
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The roof employs a two-tone weave that Ferrari developed explicitly for the Roma Spider. It combines 4 accessible coloration choices to accent or distinction the automotive’s physique coloration. An non-compulsory technical material with a pink end is out there for even larger distinction.
A button on its heart console deploys the Spider’s new wind deflector, which integrates into the second row’s backrest. For additional in-cabin consolation, the tender prime Roma is out there with neck heaters, 18-way adjustable heated seats, and commonplace Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration.
Though the Roma Spider is mechanically an identical to the coupe, there are some structural variations. These primarily dwell in its sills, which needed to be modified to retain the automotive’s rigidity alongside including the structural elements wanted for the tender prime and its folding mechanism. Ferrari additionally websites adjustments to its A-pillar and windshield encompass.
The Spider hides a twin-turbocharged 3.9-liter V8 below its lengthy hood, which develops 612 horsepower and 561 pound-feet of torque. It sends all that energy to the rear wheels through an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission. Regardless of the added weight of the folding roof, the Spider can nonetheless dash to 62 mph (100 kph) in 3.4 seconds, matching its coupe sibling. It’s going to additionally hit 124 mph (200 kph) in 9.7 seconds, solely 0.4 seconds slower than its fixed-roof counterpart. Flat out, the Spider tops out at 199 mph.
Ferrari has not introduced official pricing data or availability for the U.S. market.