New TG mag out now: an 849 Testarossa… or three used Ferraris plus change?

Considering dropping just over £400,000 on a new Ferrari 849 Testarossa? Hold your horses there, because we’ve got a rather tempting proposition instead.

You’ll need to pick up the latest issue of Top Gear magazine for the full details, but the headline is if you dare to delve into the classifieds, you could have a three-car Ferrari garage (and plenty of cash to keep them all running) for the same money as Maranello’s latest V8 hybrid.

Should you? Well, to find out you’ll need to click this link and have the new issue delivered direct to your door. Or you could start a subscription today and get even more from Top Gear magazine: it’s currently just £5 for your first five issues, after which you’ll get six issues for just £23.50. Almost as much of a bargain as a used 360 Spider.

That’s not all we’ve got on Ferrari this month either, because in this issue you’ll also find the full story of the upcoming Luce’s interior. Yep, that’s the all-electric one with a dash designed by Sir Jony Ive, the man who worked hand in hand with Steve Jobs to change the world as we knew it.

When Ferrari first announced that Sir Jony was going to be designing its new EV inside and out, our hearts dropped. As a product designer, Jony’s unparalleled, but what could he possibly know about styling a car? It’ll end up an amorphous blob on the outside and series of iPads inside, we thought.

Well, we take it all back, because the way the Luce’s interior fuses retro hints with futurism, and screens with physical, tactile switchgear, is brilliant. There’s a clarity to the layout and a few theatrical moments (like the key being swallowed by the centre console) that are outstanding. And credit must go to Ferrari for breaking tradition, diverting the conversation and making the Luce about design first and its electric powertrain second.

Side note: we reserve the right to make a full U-turn on this in May when we see the exterior.

And on the total flipside we find our exclusive drive of the Gordon Murray T.50S. A track-only supercar of such engineering purity that we couldn’t care for a single second how it looks. This isn’t a T.50 with a big wing and no number plates, it’s a parallel project to build the most satisfying-to-drive track car the human race has ever seen.