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Driving a Doorless F430 Is the Closest You Can Get to a Ferrari SUV

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With the auto industry being more and more focused on SUVs these days, we'll still have enough waiting to do before a major carmaker figures out a way of making money out of building a supercar with serious ground clearance possibilities.
Well, some people simply can't stand and wait for decision makers to convince the engineers to work on such a project and have decided to go for a DIY approach.

Let's take the YouTuber in the video below, for example. For reasons he hasn't yet shared with us, the man found himself behind the wheel of a Ferrari F430 that had lost its driver's side door.

Instead of waiting for the supercar to be fixed before entering the review mode, the man decided to go ahead and drive the car in its current state. Sure, YouTube attention may have played an important role in his decision, but this is not the point.

After watching the clip, we came to the conclusion mentioned in the title. You see, with a few exceptions, such as the Ariel Atom or the long-retired BMW Z1, there aren't too many sportscars or supercars that come in door-free mode.

In fact, if you're looking for such driving sensations, you should turn to the offroading world, where the Jeep Wrangler still follows the doorless model of the original Willys Jeep.

So perhaps driving a doorless F430 actually is as close as you'll get to a Ferrari SUV. And with Maserati preparing to launch the Levante next year, we even have strong arguments to back up that statement. Or at least its final part.

Should we get an actual Ferrari SUV? Well, the answer is not that simple and it's enough to look at Porsche to understand why. At first, the world pointed its finger at Zuffenhausen for coming up with an all-terrain model, but nowadays people can't complain, since the Cayenne is one of the fastest SUVs out there.

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About the author: Andrei Tutu
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In his quest to bring you the most impressive automotive creations, Andrei relies on learning as a superpower. There's quite a bit of room in the garage that is this aficionado's heart, so factory-condition classics and widebody contraptions with turbos poking through the hood can peacefully coexist.
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