Ferrari Portofino
Why 4.8: 80kg lighter and 35% stiffer than the California T it replaced, with roughly 40 more horsepower — Ferrari's engineers answered nearly every complaint about the car purists loved to dismiss. The ownership pattern didn't change much: this is still the entry Ferrari GT convertible bought to be driven to dinner, not tracked.
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Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €198k (2018) → €179k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
The long version
The Portofino inherited the California T's mission — a folding-hardtop, front-engine Ferrari built for buyers who wanted the badge and the comfort more than the bloodline argument — and then went and fixed the specific things testers complained about: a new aluminum architecture cut 80kg and added real structural rigidity, and the twin-turbo V8 picked up power along the way. None of that erased the stigma among Ferrari purists who still treat any front-engine, turbocharged, folding-roof Ferrari as the least serious car with the badge. It also didn't need to: Portofino buyers were never cross-shopping a 488. Depreciation followed a familiar entry-Ferrari curve — a dip through the early 2020s, values firming back up since — the fate of a car that gets driven enough to rack up real mileage rather than get mothballed for a future auction.