True, 9mpg is pretty hurtful but, as this Ferrari’s got a decent sized boot, it can be converted to LPG, which could make sense

It must have been an odd little boy whose bedroom wall had a poster of the Ferrari 400 – probably the
kind of lad who ended up as a staffer on Octane.

Not only is the 400 the most forgotten and cheapest Ferrari money can buy, it also possesses some most un-Ferrari-like characteristics. At its launch purists were aghast that the 400 had an automatic option. Not only that, it was a four-seater, the size of an XJ6, and even had a decent-sized boot. The only way it could have been worse was if it had had four doors!

It was, in essence, a family supercar. And it cost Rolls-Royce money. Yet all of the things the purists held against it now work in its favour. The fact that it’s been shunned by die-hard Ferraristi has kept it cheap.
For the money, there really is no other way to combine four seats with a Ferrari V12.

True, 9mpg is pretty hurtful but, as this Ferrari’s got a decent sized boot, it can be converted to LPG, which could make sense. There are signs, too, that the market’s waking up to these chisel-chinned dinosaurs.