First Drive: 2017 Ferrari California T Handling Speciale

-Adding the word “special” in Italian to the name of a car conjures up all kinds of motoring lore and often adds a bunch of zeros to its eventual auction value as a collectible. As if every Ferrari weren’t speciale, the company has pasted the label on a long and glorious line of cars, from the 1962 250GT SWB Berlinetta Speciale (the only one sold last year for $16.5 million) to the recent 458 Speciale. Each Speciale is, er, special in its own way, although Ferrari is not above using the term on somewhat less-ambitious projects. The new California T Handling Speciale, for instance, is basically a Cal T with a sports suspension. BMW guys may think of it as the equivalent of an M Sport version while those with a bent toward American iron may draw parallels to a Chevy Impala SS. READ MORE ››

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