Ferrari will be making its appearance at the Paris motor show by unveiling the first car in its history to offer four seats and a turbo-charged V8 engine. Usually when a car has a prancing horse on the front grille and four seats behind the hood, the badge and the seats are separated by a […]The post Ferrari GTC4Lusso T appeared first on Pursuitist.

Ferrari will be making its appearance at the Paris motor show by unveiling the first car in its history to offer four seats and a turbo-charged V8 engine.Usually when a car has a prancing horse on the front grille and four seats behind the hood, the badge and the seats are separated by a hefty V12 engine. But although this is being trumpeted as a first ? and technically speaking, it is ? onlookers will be forgiven for thinking that the new car seems surprisingly familiar.And that?s because the Lusso T is based on the existing 6.3-litre V12-powered GTC4Lusso that made its debut at the 2016 Geneva motor show.But looks can be deceiving. While the V12 version was aimed at keen drivers and their families planning pan-European roadtrips, Ferrari says this new V8 version is a more practical all-rounder. A car you take on the school run as easily as into the mountains in order to ski a black run.As well as jettisoning four cylinders, this Lusso ditches the four-wheel drive system that kept its V12 sibling on the straight and narrow.Therefore power ? all 602bhp of it ? goes solely to the rear wheels via a seven-speed paddle-shift ge...