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In this video, Ben McKimm from Man of Many takes the Ferrari Purosangue out for an on-road review through the Australian Outback.
This million-dollar V12 Ferrari marks a historic shift for the Prancing Horse, introducing a four-door, four-seat layout that rivals traditional SUVs while maintaining true supercar DNA. We explore whether this radical new direction sacrifices Ferrari's legendary performance in favour of everyday grand-touring practicality.
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This million-dollar V12 Ferrari marks a historic shift for the Prancing Horse, introducing a four-door, four-seat layout that rivals traditional SUVs while maintaining true supercar DNA. We explore whether this radical new direction sacrifices Ferrari's legendary performance in favour of everyday grand-touring practicality.
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00:00so you might be wondering then why i'm standing next to a million dollar ferrari in the middle
00:05of the australian outback well it's simple really you've probably never seen someone
00:09do this before and i'll probably never do it again and honestly it just looks pretty cool
00:22that gearbox is so quick i mean that gearbox is quick and the brakes are as you can tell
00:30so i've had some time to come to terms with the fact that ferrari has an suv in its lineup
00:35the earth
00:36hasn't stopped rotating on its axis there's still a v12 engine under the bonnet and i still think it
00:42looks pretty futuristic so before i take the pura sangway for a drive we're going to talk about
00:46what it actually is we've got to look at the exterior and then the interior so let's start
00:51on the outside of the car does it look like an suv to you i don't know to me it
00:58kind of looks a little
00:59bit more like a sort of jacked up sedan or a hatchback on steroids but what do you think
01:05i know what ferrari thinks
01:10underneath these very 812 super fast front arches is a really nice piece of carbon fiber with a bit
01:16of detail here it sort of sticks underneath the body and adds a bit of width to the car but
01:21what
01:21i want to talk about are these 22 inch wheels that are in front of these huge carbon ceramic brembo
01:27brakes 255 wide front tires they're fat but then at the rear they get even wider you've got 23 inch
01:33wheels with a 315 and they're super meaty especially when you're following this car from behind and of
01:38course another distinguishing feature of this car is the length of the front bonnet i don't think
01:43there's another suv suv in existence that has a v12 engine underneath and that's why this bonnet is so
01:48long you do sacrifice a little bit of rear legroom because of that but another feature i want to point
01:53out that you just don't see in photos so much is this vent down here that runs all the way
01:58underneath
01:58i mean you can see my hand poking out there but it's just one of those features that you don't
02:03fully appreciate about a car until you see it in the flesh
02:11but then the real showstopper of the pura sungway is this little knob which is the rear door and it
02:17is power assisted so i'm barely pulling this here i mean i've got one finger on it it opens at
02:22almost
02:22a 90 degree angle and that makes it really easy to get in the back that's my driving position i'm
02:29about six foot tall and while i'm back here i don't have to reach out and grab it let's press
02:34a button
02:37they could have played a safe back here and gone for a big bench seat with a five seat configuration
02:43but they didn't and i give ferrari props to that they've gone for the four seats set up there's plenty
02:48of space around me i do feel a little bit cocooned but i've got plenty of ford visibility so when
02:53the
02:53driver is having a go so i've got to maybe two carsick and i think it's these rear seats that
02:58speak
02:59to the purpose of the pura sungway the most to me it feels more like sort of big grand tourer
03:04that it
03:05does an suv and the four seat configuration i think really speaks to that so it's important that everything
03:11feels high-end and i think out of all the ferraris that i've driven in recent memory it's the pura
03:17sungway that feels the most luxurious here so much leather i mean there's leather as far as the eye can
03:22see and it extends all the way down to your feet we've got sort of smatterings of alcantara down here
03:28but even rear seat control so i can recline this seat and get even more headroom just a really
03:34comfortable place to sit when you are doing those longer journeys there's not all that much technology
03:40back here i think if you spend a lot of time in porsches and even range rovers you'd expect a
03:45screen to be sitting on the back of the seat but i think it doesn't really speak to the nature
03:49of this
03:49car too much however if you're sitting in the passenger seat you do have a screen and there's
03:54plenty of technology for the driver to explore so i think it's about time we jump in the front
03:58this is where you want to be seated in the driver's seat it's kind of wild because you might be
04:03sitting up higher well the car might be sitting up higher than any ferrari before but you as the driver
04:08are not you're sitting quite low in the cabin it definitely feels more like a sedan or even a
04:14sports car up here it feels also kind of like a fighter jet with the way these instrument binnacles
04:19wrap around you and the passenger it's definitely an experience for both front passengers as well as the
04:24rear it's quite minimalist up here i have to say they've removed a lot of the buttons am i the
04:29biggest
04:29fan of it no i'm not i prefer what they've done in the 12-cylindry there's no center ipad screen
04:36another thing that they haven't brought over from the 12-cylindry or introduced in any sort of model
04:40year here your apple carplay is up here in the digital drive display again i'm the biggest fan
04:46of it not particularly but at the end of the day you're sitting in a ferrari so you're not going
04:51to
04:51sit here and complain about things if you're the owner of this car or an owner of a pura sunway
04:54or any
04:55ferrari for that matter it's the type of thing that you just get used to over time overall though it
05:00feels particularly luxurious you're sitting quite low in the car there is a presence about it that you don't
05:04get in other suvs so i mentioned that there are not that many physical buttons but they have
05:09smartly included this pop-up display so this is the type of thing that you're going to get used to
05:14when
05:14you own these cars and it allows you to adjust things like the temperature with a physical
05:19control is just hidden until you press that button so yeah it's a two-step process you've also got your
05:25nose lift and your steering wheel heating and the passenger can adjust their seat over here you can sync
05:29the aircon and quickly get to settings again it's touch sensitive am i in love with it not particularly
05:35but at least you can adjust the aircon temperatures down here you've got two cup holders in the center
05:41console you've got two usb-c ports of wireless charges up the front here and even things like
05:46this i mean it's beautifully damped and that really speaks to the luxury that the pura sunway gives you of
05:52course beautiful carbon fiber here on this car even small little things like this window control
05:58it just feels really high quality to the touch and it has a really nice feel to it and a
06:03click
06:04so yeah they've reduced the number of buttons but the things that are physical feel great and very
06:09luxurious so i mentioned that it's a bit of a two cockpit setup and that is genuinely the case because
06:15the passenger gets their own screen which i know is common in a few cars this level but this one's
06:21particularly good because it's a ferrari and they care so much about performance that they give you a rev
06:25counter the speed some important information down here about what your drive's been up to
06:29even a g-force meter but the little tiny detail that i'm in love with is it tells you the
06:35suspension
06:35setting and the drive mode of course there's other things you can do in there like you can adjust the
06:40you know the aircon temperature and your passenger is really your co-pilot in the pura sunway
06:46so in terms of actually getting the pura sunway going see what's on door shut can't want to start
06:53without the door shut but engine starts stop but i mean if you've seen my 296 video 12 cylindry
07:02dolice cylindry videos then you'll know how that works car starts full paddle and then you're off
07:10automatic parking brake it starts off with like a really nice breath um but then after that
07:20it's fairly quiet seems to sort of default to hard suspension once you take off in sport mode you can
07:28adjust that with the manatino switch down here so switch it over into comfort switch it into sport
07:35and then you just hit the button you can go between soft medium and hard suspension so i just
07:39like cruising around in soft because this car suspension which i will get to in a moment is
07:44particularly impressive and it really makes this thing feel like a proper uh grand tour what would
07:49i do if i was handed the keys to a million dollar ferrari out in the middle of nowhere with
07:55no one around
07:56well i would probably drive at 50 kilometers an hour because there is so much wildlife out here
08:02and i don't really feel like eating a kangaroo so what we might actually do is skip a bit forward
08:07we'll get into tomorrow where there's slightly better driving roads and a lot less wildlife
08:12so it's a new day there are less kangaroos out and about although we have
08:17seen some emus and plenty of goats actually um but i thought we may as well take this thing for
08:25a drive so
08:27get myself set up here in the driving position it's really comfortable by the way the driving
08:33position is just spot on um let's go for a drive it's pretty warm outside um this is actually a
08:39great representation of what the pure sungway is like to drive around town we're on 50 kilometer
08:45per hour speed limits and not the world's best roads as you'd probably expect for outback
08:50uh australia and it's super comfortable once you get it into sport mode the aircon is actually quite
08:55good but i've just got to turn uh down on the fan speed i actually might crank that up a
09:00little bit
09:00and it's not too hard to do actually um with this pop out dial so i'm going to bring it
09:05up to the
09:05speed limit here which is 100 kilometers an hour and it's here that you notice the sort of
09:09torque that this engine has they've changed things like the intake manifold and honestly a lot of the
09:15top of the engine um to get it to be quite responsive at lower speeds and it doesn't have
09:21to kick down multiple gears i mean the transmission to bring the car to speed i mean it did that
09:26in seventh gear now we're sitting in eighth at 100 kilometers an hour which is good for emissions but
09:32also good for fuel economy and if you're doing a lot of grand touring in a ferrari uh with a
09:38v12 you
09:39don't want to be stopping too often because that is very inconvenient i'll switch it across in the
09:42now we're just rocking comfort so sort of slackens off everything the car does an amazing job at
09:49reading the road ahead of you so the suspension is trick it's multi-matic it it's active right
09:58essentially so it actually scans the road ahead it's not a uh reactive suspension it's a dynamic
10:04suspension so it actually knows exactly what's ahead and it prepares the car to do that it doesn't feel
10:09something and then do it it knows that it's going to happen and the result is an extremely
10:14comfortable ride in a sporty suv which is not really something that you find usually when the
10:19cars are heavy they've got to wind up the dampers they're going to put stiffer springs on it to
10:24negate the body roll but because of this trick suspension which you can feel working underneath you
10:29it just doesn't the car doesn't lean into corners like porsche active right but you can tell you see
10:36a bump coming up ahead and as the car goes over it or a crest and things like that there's
10:41no sort of
10:42excessive movement which is quite impressive and that's also true uh on twistier roads and tighter
10:48roads where that comes into play even more so than out here once you get the pierre stungway into
10:53comfort with the soft suspension it really starts to come into its own on these longer journeys
10:57it's remarkably quiet you honestly wouldn't even know a v12 engine sitting under the bonnet and i
11:03actually don't mind that because when you're not using it it's fine i don't really mind or care too
11:07much what's there i know it's there but i don't need to have my ears constantly ringing at the sound
11:12of it or anything like that but when you put your foot down and it kicks down a few gears
11:16you definitely
11:17know what's underneath the bonnet small things like the driving position and the seats and the steering
11:21wheel they're all bang on it's dead center there's plenty of visibility out over the bonnet it dips
11:27away despite its length and i can see the crest of the top of the wheel arches which has become
11:31such
11:31a thing in supercars but to find it here in an suv is pretty impressive that trick suspension makes
11:37the ride comfortable there's not too much wind noise there's almost no wind noise in fact of these
11:41mirrors or through the windows here and frameless door mirrors it's super quiet i do wish i could have
11:46my apple carplay over here and just leave this taco up in front of me but unfortunately you can only
11:51have one or the other up here because there's no center screen so that's something that i think ferrari
11:55could work on they have the ability to add a center screen to the car they proved it in the
11:5912
11:59cylindries so i don't really see why they couldn't bring into piru sunway i've done a bit of a scout
12:03of the road now so i kind of know that there shouldn't be much wildlife around uh so i can
12:09start to
12:09push it a little bit more the car does uh have rear steer but it's not an aggressive rear steer
12:16so what
12:16happens when we take it out of comfort mode dial the manitino into sport go down here lock it into
12:22manual
12:23mode and jump down a few gears that gearbox is so quick i mean that gearbox is quick and the
12:36brakes are
12:37as you can tell there is quite a bit of theater going on now the v12 is really starting to
12:44work
12:44it's amazing how it can just sort of switch itself off but then when you ask something about of it
12:48it just doesn't
12:55and like so many v12 supercars and cars in general you do kind of wish you were outside the car
13:02so you
13:02could really appreciate it you get a lot of uh beautiful induction sound off the front of the car
13:06here and a little bit of exhaust behind you because of the position of the driver but i kind of
13:11wish i
13:12was out there listening to it and it's quick in case you need to know that i mean of course
13:18it's
13:18going to be a quick it's a v12 ferrari zero to 100 they quote in the low three seconds and
13:24i have no
13:25reason not to believe that the in-gear acceleration particularly starts to pick up once you get into
13:29the higher gear so third gear at 5 000 that's when it starts to sink
13:37and it really starts to crank up of course we're in the middle of the australian outback so there's
13:42not too many twisty roads for me to dial this car in but even here you can tell that the
13:47steering wheel
13:48is ferrari fast especially in sport mode it's not quite as twitchy you could say uh as the a12 of
13:55which the engine's sort of based it's also probably not quite as twitchy as the new 12-cylindry which i
14:00know has dialed that back um a little bit as well even here in sport mode with the hard suspension
14:04this
14:05road is relatively okay actually and it's not too stiff but i can just dial it back there into
14:10medium for the dampers still amazing that right now it's in fifth gear sitting on 90 kilometers an
14:16hour and it's just ticking over like you can tell that the engines is very happy to be here it's
14:22not
14:22grumpy or upset about the fact that it's so just chilling which is i think uh something that's quite
14:29impressive about this car you know you can put a v12 in a car and it doesn't always
14:32really get along very well uh with a sort of more normal driving but this one has no problem
14:38through some of slightly more twisty stuff here it's the beautiful thing about na engines is how
14:43you can just wind the power in you don't have to come in and out of boost i mean look
14:48it's just such
14:49a linear power curve and it's kind of addictive you just want to sort of hear the engine as much
14:55as
14:55possible and just go through the gears that's what you find yourself doing in a v12 it's just
15:00constantly doing that going up a gear like i'll go back down again just to hear it do a downshift
15:07that's where it wakes up five and a half six thousand up yeah yeah it's pretty cool
15:13if you were going to do a ferrari suv then yeah probably should really have a v12 in it and
15:18i'm so
15:18glad that this one does it's pretty impressive like they could have gone with a hybrid v8 they could
15:23have gone even with the v6 the 296's engine i think puts out over 800 horsepower and probably
15:29sort of suits the ethos of a typical suv but i guess this isn't a typical suv
15:34it's an fuv and look us through there
15:44so good it's funny because so many suvs they just don't give you the same driving experience that you
15:50get out of this car there's so much rpm real estate to play with i can just sit here fifth
15:55gear 3000
15:56just wind it on it's got plenty of torque because of that intake manifold and if i really want i
16:01could
16:01drop another gear and really start to ring the engine but there's so much rpm real estate to play
16:06with and that gearbox is just i mean so snappy you get that beautiful uh throttle body sucking in air
16:15such a fun car some things that i do think they could improve on with this car there's not all
16:19that much theater at normal speeds so i think if you're sitting outside the car we've been hearing
16:23cruising around as we've been having lunch it sounds pretty good but i think there could just be more
16:28theater i mean it's not particularly loud at low rpms and in here i'm not acutely aware of the fact
16:34that
16:34i have a v12 under the bonnet at normal speeds i think with v8s and things like that you get
16:39that lump
16:40you get the chug the chug you get that sort of uh throaty guttural sound when you put your window
16:45down but in this car it's kind of just the sound of an engine turning over not a bad thing
16:50because
16:50of course when you wind this out i'd much rather be sitting here but just something to note not all
16:55that much theater at normal speeds other than that there's not really many holes to pick in this car
17:01it's a million dollar ferrari that they've basically just made a sedan on jack top stilts with some
17:05amazing suspension at v12 so yeah and with that i think we take this thing back to the homestead
17:18the lights fading the flies are going away a little bit but that's it for the ferrari pura
17:25sungway and it's kind of proven itself here even in the australian outback a place where you'd never
17:30really expect to find one of these things in a place that i never thought i'd be driving one but
17:34it's kind of proven itself as a grand well has proven itself as a grand tourer an suv an fuv
17:39if
17:40you really want but to me it's a car that i want to spend a lot of time behind the
17:44wheel of drive
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