Simplicity or complexity? eighties icons clash

With a controversial name and equally controversial predecessor, Ferrari’s new 849 Testarossa has a long to-do list as it aims to improve on the SF90

Aesthetics are so subjective that it seems a fool’s errand to address them at length here. However, this is a new Ferrari. And one that adopts the name Testarossa. A car that is almost exclusively rem

Martin Brundle, Derek Warwick and David Brabham all pick out the 3.5-litre V8 Jaguar XJR-14 among the finest racing cars they ever drove. Ross Brawn’s design for Tom Walkinshaw Racing ‘only’ won three

Reviving the Testarossa name places the new 849 alongside the 12Cilindri at the top of Ferrari’s series-production range. It replaces the SF90 – an ambitious supercar defined by a V8 hybrid powertrain

↳ WHAT TO PAY £60,000–£80,000 ↳ WHY YOU SHOULD Ferrari will never build a naturally aspirated open-gate manual supercar ever again (probably) ↳ WHY YOU SHOULDN’T The sills rot, it looks a bit startled

Something is not right. Racing cars are meant to be more difficult to drive than road cars; extra power and performance but less harnessed, so trickier to access and control than with the engineering