2022 FERRARI PUROSANGUE

Ferrari NV’S stock price has raced to more than US$200 from its US$52 IPO on the NYSE in 2015, not quite Tesla performance, but pretty darn good for an 80-year-old carmaker. Not surprisingly, a lot of investor interest is due to the Italian company’s electric vehicle offerings and plans, one of which is an electric SUV. Yes, a Ferrari SUV, though it may not actually use that acronym. Take that to your kid’s soccer practice. The Purosangue (Italian for thoroughbred) might just boast a turbocharged V-8 with hybrid assistance that can push out some 650 horsepower, more than a Lamborghini Urus, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that it will cost more than an Urus, too.

THE MIDDLE MANAGER

drive. Remember when getting a fifth gear was all the rage? At the top end (Platinum Elite), expect a full-colour head-up display, customizable ambient interior lighting, Milano leather seats with contrast stitching and piping and adaptive dampers. List pricing starts at an affordable $43,990 up to $51,690. It may not wow your friends, but it will get you to work in style.

THE REVIVAL

making it capable of hitting 100 km/hr in three seconds flat. The extra motors also increase payload and towing capacities. But just in case you want to act like Hummer drivers of old, the SUT brags about its “unique open-air experience.” The “Infinity” roof’s four panels and front T-bar are easily removed “to let the world in,” or your middle finger out, something a Us$100,000-plus car apparently allows you to do.

THE ANIMAL

Gotta admit, the Hellcat doesn’t exactly look like a hellcat from the outside. Indeed, it looks quite like many other three-row SUVS: a little bit boxy with some attempt at streamlining, though it does have a revised front face that gives it a touch of menace. But the real menace is under the hood where a 6.2-litre supercharged V8 resides, capable of pumping out 710 horsepower and almost 875 Newton-metres (645 pound-feet) of torque. That’ll get you up to 100km/hr in a blistering 3.5 seconds, more than enough to throw a thrill into the children in the back, and it tops out at 290 km/hr (needless to say, don’t try that with kids in the car). And if you need to tow something, the Hellcat is capable of pulling 3,946 kilograms. It’s also added four new drive modes — sport, track, tow or snow — so there are now seven modes for seven occasions, with the modes controlled by hard buttons on an all-new integrated centre stack. All that is not going to come cheap: US$82,490.