To be considered a success, the new Ferrari Amalfi needed to improve upon what’s perhaps the automaker’s most underrated model of all time, the handsome Roma it replaces. A tall order, but Ferrari has proved pretty good at the whole building-great-sports-cars thing. Though the Amalfi is technically a mid-cycle refresh of the Roma, its body has changed radically enough to justify the new name. Big power remains a modern-day sports car must-have, and this new two-door delivers. Using the latest iteration of the 3.9-liter twin-turbo V-8—with a flat-plane crank—found in its predecessor, the 631 hp Amalfi kicks out an additional 19 hp while generating the Roma-equivalent 561 ft lbs of torque. Yet thanks to new turbochargers and an engine controller borrowed from Ferrari’s 296 GT3 EVO race car, the engine now revs quicker, so all that torque shows up sooner. The eight-speed dual-clutch automatic transaxle carries over as well, though it has been reprogrammed to shift..
