As the world moves forward, diversification is one of the key strategies that legacy OEMs choose to remain relevant. For Ferrari, it was the Roma GT (Grand Touring) car that served as the most affordable and accessible model to enter the world of Ferrari. Soon, the Roma emerged as a popular offering from Ferrari and expanded the brand’s lineup.
The Roma was replaced by the Amalfi Coupe, which debuted the previous year. Now, the Italian brand has come up with the Amalfi Spider, which is a 2-door 2+2 seater drop-top grand tourer. Even with the heavy roof mechanism, the Amalfi Spider promises similar performance to the Amalfi Coupe. Ferrari will launch the Amalfi Spider in India this year for Rs 5.59 crore (ex-sh). let’s take a closer look.
ferrari amalfi spider debut
As far as design is concerned, the Ferrari Amalfi Spider looks almost identical to its coupe counterpart. Except that the Amalfi Spider gets a convertible fabric roof that makes it infinitely more desirable. The color that can be seen in these photos is new to the Amalfi Spider and it is called Rosso Tramonto.
Notable design highlights include flush door handles, sleek LED DRLs attached to gloss black plaques, slim LED headlights, four-part LED tail lights, large rear diffuser, quad exhaust tips, stunning alloy wheels and an active rear spoiler that can add 100 kg of additional downforce at speeds of up to 250 km/h.
The fabric roof can be deployed in 13.5 seconds and at speeds of up to 60 km/h. With the roof closed, it has a luggage capacity of 255L as the Amalfi Spider is still a grand tourer. To reduce wind noise, Ferrari has installed wind deflectors behind the rear seats, promising similar NVH performance to Ferrari’s hard top models.
As far as the interior is concerned, the Ferrari Amalfi Spider is almost identical to its coupe counterpart. For starters, it has a 2+2 seating layout and on the dashboard there is a flat-bottom sporty steering wheel, a 10.25-inch infotainment screen, a 15.6-inch instrument screen for the driver and an 8.8-inch third screen for the co-driver’s entertainment.
similar performance to the amalfi coupe
Coming to the spectacular performance aspect of the Ferrari Amalfi Spider, we can see that the company is quoting the same metrics as the coupe model. These include a 3.3 second 0-100 km/h sprint and a top speed of 320 km/h. If we bring up the 0-200 km/h metrics, we can see some difference from the Amalfi Coupe as the Spider takes 0.4 seconds longer to reach 200 km/h at 9.4 seconds.
For reference, the Ferrari Amalfi Spider weighs 1,556 kg, which is 86 kg heavier than the Amalfi Coupe. Performance comes from a 3.9L twin turbo V8 capable of delivering 640 bhp of peak power and 760 Nm of peak torque, mated to an 8-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox that sends power to the rear wheels only.
