Ferrari Roma – performance and 0-60 time
The Ferrari Roma is a prodigiously fast road car with performance instantly accessible across a wide range of engine speeds
Give the throttle a decent squeeze and the Roma picks up crisply and drives forward with all the thrilling eagerness you expect from a 600bhp, twin-turbo V8. Stretch the engine and the pace never seems to let up, the rev-counter needle swinging to 7500rpm and the eight-speed DCT slipping instantly into the next ratio so that the acceleration is seamless and relentless.
Being a flat-plane-crank V8, the sound is rather two-dimensional compared with the surround-sound thunder from the offset crank V8s in the Aston Martin Vantage and Mercedes-AMG GT. There are no silencers in the Roma’s exhaust, sound absorption being handled by the GPFs (gas particulate filters) and the reduced-size catalysts upstream of them, leaving the NVH engineers to play with pipe lengths and diameters to tune the sound. It’s purposeful and similar in tone to the F8 Tributo. There’s an oval bypass valve whose opening is automatic and load and throttle position sensitive.
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Underlining the similarity in the way the two Roma versions drive, in raw numbers both the coupe and Spider deliver the same 3.4sec 0-62mph time. Top speed is rated at 199mph in both as well. The coupe’s 1570kg kerb weight gives a 395bhp/ton power to weight ratio and the Spider is only 84kg heavier. The increase is thanks to the roof, plus stiffening along the sills, in the A-pillars and beneath the boot floor but the strength of the engine renders it almost imperceptible.
In either form it’s a fast car, the Roma. You can’t fault the response of the Ferrari’s V8, or the connected feel of its throttle, and that exhaust note has presence: onlookers swivel to see what’s coming and they all smile when they clock this Ferrari GT.
