It falls into the most expensive insurance group, needs a minor service at 6250 miles and major one 6250 miles later while managing just 13mpg. Put in the context of other exotic cars, this sort of expense is probably only slightly worse than average, rather than exceptionally bad. What you might want to bear in mind is that Ferrari’s big four-seat coupes have never enjoyed the same resistance to depreciation as their two-seat siblings.

Little surprise that the 612 scores miserably on the eco front. With emissions of 470g/km CO2, its no friend to the environment, although this is typical of a car delivering this kind of performance. It’s also very thirsty, averaging a mere 14mpg.

Ferrari has made great strides in quality in recent years but the old reputation hasn’t been banished yet. Even our test car suffered a mild wobble while the Becker satellite navigation system trying to convince us we were in another country.