Soaking in the last of the Sardinian summer sun in the new 200mph soft-top Ferrari Roma Spider was wind in the hair motoring at its finest.
The sound of the suitably throaty twin exhausts around the Italian island resulted in admiring looks wherever I went.
And so it should with prices starting from £210,313 – enough to buy you a studio flat in the less fashionable areas of outer London, a two bed flat in Bristol, a terrace in Sheffield,