Ferrari Amalfi Spider review

How long is a piece of string? Would sir or madam like it woven from carbon fibre thread? Embroidered in historic colours? With matching alloys? Has this metaphor run its course? Yes it has.

Like ‘time immemorial’ doesn’t refer to a specific date, £227,260 is the arbitrary number where Amalfi Spider prices are alleged to begin. Not one person will spend this, such is the temptation and outright necessity of the Ferrari options list.

As standard, you get 20in alloys, the eight-speed DCT, carbon ceramic brakes, all of Ferrari’s trick dynamics software, launch control, a reversing camera (no-one wants to back their Fezza into a lamppost) and all the ADAS you’re compelled to have by law.

Then things get dear. As a start, you’ll want to add the MagneRide suspension with nose lift for £7,501. Coloured brake calipers are £1,512. A carbon fibre front spoiler and rear diffuser are £4,279 and £7,837. Titanium pipes are £1,680. Ferrari badges on the flanks are a £1,231 indulgence. Privacy windows? £3,079. Forged painted rims? £4,142. Classic, historical, or special paint? £8,316.

Inside, Alcantara carpet – just the carpet – is £2,800. A carbon fibre instrument cluster is £5,039. Two-tone leather seats cost £5,598. It’s another £3,919 to have them ventilated and with a massage function. The 8.8in passenger screen is also £3,919. Yep, almost four times the price of an iPhone 17 Pro. And it barely does anything. The 14-speaker audio system is £5,330.

Okay, okay, you’ve made your point.

The Amalfi’s options list runs to 23 pages, so you can digest the rest in your own time. But it peaks at requesting a ‘special colour’ for no less than £39,624. How the other half live.

Ferrari will cover all scheduled maintenance for the first seven years, with intervals of either 20,000km or 12 months and no mileage limit. The warranty is three years, again with no mileage limit. And you’d blummin’ well hope so if you’d just dropped £953 on soft-close doors.

If it matters to you – and we suspect it doesn’t – fuel economy is rated at 25mpg. In tandem with the 80-litre fuel tank, that’ll last longer between stops than yours or your passenger’s bladder.