CHRIS HARRIS
The Ferrari 296 GTB is rewriting the fast car rulebook and leaving so-called rivals in its wake, says Chris
I haven’t had the chance to fully eulogise about the Ferrari 296 GTB because my cricketing friend drove it when we were in Germany filming. It is many of the things we now blithely expect a new Ferrari to be: beautifully developed and offering so much performance you really do wonder how much more any human being could need. But what struck me when I had the car in the UK was how it comprehensively exploded the existing gap between supercar and hypercar. Of course there is no definitive line of demarcation between such random categorisation, but my backside has alway considered it to be the difference between “Crikey, that’s rapid” and “Woah, what just happened there?”