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so here it is the 849 testarossa it's our first chance to actually drive
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the car but we might as well start with how it looks we all know it's based on sf90 so it's an evolution of that and and it's a pretty radical
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change visually isn't it the the challenges for the designers have been as always to get air in
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through and out of the car so there's a lot of work around the front end to generate some
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additional downforce with these flicks and then they've had to channel air in for additional brake
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cooling and then the air is caught and runs into these really deeply sculpted doors they've used
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some really trick hot pressing techniques to get this extreme kind of contouring and that feeds the
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air into these two big intakes. The intercooling system is much more efficient now up 30% I think
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and then they're extracting air as well so it gets very very busy here with the vertical element and
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then there's some vents along the side to take air out of the wheel arch and also an active wing
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here which juts really aggressively into the airflow i mean what do you think of the way it looks i once you understand the of it you kind of get the shape I don know if there some F80 in there isn there at the front
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I think it's very dramatic. The biggest change between this and the SF90
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is really the adoption. of some of the technology that was pioneered in the F80
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and it actually predicts what the car wants and what you're going to do next
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And it just communicates much more clearly throughout the car. So where SF90 was criticised for not being
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quite so connected and tactile, already the 849 feels more together and more predictable
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which let's face it is what you want in something with 1036 water power
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considering they've upped the size of the turbos to give you more boost
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but they've ironed the lag out that's really really impressive
